How to delete Indexes in Azure AI Studio Preview?

Question

So I've got my indexes:

I can not generate new ones, I get an error:

 Index quota has been exceeded for this service. You must either delete unused indexes first, add a delay between index creation requests, or upgrade the service for higher limits. Maximum number of indexes allowed: 3

But how do I delete these indexes?

Answer 1

Dirk Broenink Greetings & Welcome to Microsoft Q&A forum!

Index quota has been exceeded for this service. You must either delete unused indexes first, add a delay between index creation requests, or upgrade the service for higher limits. Maximum number of indexes allowed: 3

I understand that you are looking for suggestions to delete the indexes.

As error suggests that you are hitting the index limits. please see Index limits for current limits.

To resolve this you need to delete the existing resources or you need to upgrade to higher pricing tier.

Currently, there is no option to delete the indexes from Azure AI studio. However, you can follow the below approach.

You can see indexes by going into existing 'search service' resource created in Azure portal and selecting 'indexes' within the search service.

Choose the index you would like to delete and select delete.

Also, you can use Delete Index (Azure Cognitive Search REST API) to delete the indexes.

DELETE https://[service name].search.windows.net/indexes/[index name]?api-version=[api-version]  
  Content-Type: application/json  
  api-key: [admin key]

Do let me know if that helps or have any other queries.

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