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• Getting started
• Vespa Overview
• Features
• Vespa CLI
• vespa
• vespa activate
• vespa auth
• vespa clone
• vespa config
• vespa curl
• vespa deploy
• vespa destroy
• vespa document
• vespa feed
• vespa fetch
• vespa inspect
• vespa log
• vespa prepare
• vespa prod
• vespa query
• vespa status
• vespa test
• vespa version
• vespa visit
• Getting Started with Ranking
• Vespa API and Interfaces
• Frequently Asked Questions - FAQ
• Tenants, Apps and Instances
• Glossary

• Tutorials and quick starts
• News Tutorials
• News 1: Getting Started
• News 2: Application Packages, Feeding, Query
• News 3: Sorting, Grouping and Ranking
• News 4: Embeddings
• News 5: Partial Updates, ANNs, Filtering
• News 6: Custom Searchers, Document Processors
• News 7: Parent-Child, Tensor Ranking
• Models Hot Swap
• Text Search
• Hybrid Text Search
• Text Search ML
• Quick Start
• Quick Start Java

• Schemas and documents
• Documents
• Parent/Child
• Annotations API
• Concrete document types
• Exposing schema information
• Reindexing

• Reading and writing
• /document/v1
• Visiting
• Vespa Feed Client
• Indexing
• Document API
• Partial Updates
• Batch delete
• Feed block

• Querying
• Vespa Query Language
• Grouping Information in Results
• Federation
• Query Profiles
• Nearest Neighbor Search
• Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search
• Nearest Neighbor Search Guide
• Text matching
• Geo Search
• Predicate Fields
• Streaming Search
• Document Summaries
• Result Renderers
• Page Templates
• Result Diversity

• Ranking and ML models
• Rank Features and Expressions
• Embedding
• Multivalue Query Operators
• Tensor User Guide
• Tensor Examples
• Phased Ranking
• Searcher Re-Ranking
• Cross-Encoder Transformer Ranking
• Ranking With TensorFlow Models
• Ranking With ONNX Models
• Ranking With XGBoost Models
• Ranking With LightGBM Models
• Stateless Model Evaluation
• Ranking With BM25
• Significance Model
• Ranking With nativeRank
• Accelerated OR search using the WAND algorithm
• Model Hub

• Linguistics and text processing
• Query Rewriting
• Troubleshooting character encoding
• Lucene Linguistics

• Applications and components
• Developer Guide
• Unit Testing
• Testing
• Testing Reference
• Testing Reference Java
• Java Serving Container
• Container Components
• Request-Response Processing
• Searcher Development
• Document Processor Development
• Developing Web Service Applications
• Component Injection
• Chained Components
• Configuring Java components
• Bundles
• Using ZooKeeper
• Developing request handlers
• Building an HTTP API using request handlers and processors
• Configuring Http Servers and Filters
• Using Libraries for Pluggable Frameworks
• Developing server providers
• Server Tutorial

• LLMs in Vespa
• Local LLMs in Vespa
• External LLMs in Vespa
• RAG in Vespa
• Document enrichment with LLMs

• Content and elasticity
• Proton
• Content Nodes and States
• Consistency Model
• Distribution Algorithm
• Buckets

• Performance and tuning
• Practical performance guide
• Serving Sizing Guide
• Feed Sizing Guide
• Sizing Examples
• Binarizing Vectors
• Document Attributes
• Benchmarking
• Benchmarking with Vespa Cloud
• Memory Visualizer
• Profiling
• Container Tuning
• Rate-Limiting Search Requests
• Graceful Query Coverage Degradation
• Caches
• HTTP Performance Testing
• HTTP Best Practices
• HTTP/2
• Feature Tuning
• Valgrind

• Operations - Vespa Cloud
• Archive
• Archive Guide AWS
• Archive Guide GCP
• Autoscaling
• Data management and backup
• Cloning applications and data
• Migrating to Vespa Cloud
• Migrating from ElasticSearch to Vespa
• Index bootstrap
• Monitoring
• Notifications
• Deleting applications
• Enclave - bring your own cloud
• AWS getting started
• AWS architecture
• GCP getting started
• GCP architecture
• Operations
• Private endpoints
• Production deployment
• Topology and resizing

• Operations - Vespa OSS
• Metrics
• Logs
• Access Logging
• Multinode Systems
• Files, Processes, Ports, Environment
• Node Setup
• Content node recovery
• Using Kubernetes with Vespa
• Securing a Vespa installation
• mTLS
• Configuration Servers
• Live Vespa upgrade procedure
• Config Sentinel
• Config Proxy
• Docker Containers
• Vespa Command-line Tools
• Docker Containers GPU setup
• Service Location Broker
• Change from attribute to index procedure
• Container
• Monitoring
• Routing

• Security
• Security Guide
• Secret Store
• Cloudflare Workers
• Security Whitepaper

• Configuration reference
• Schema Reference
• services.xml
• services.xml - admin
• services.xml - container
• services.xml - content
• services.xml - docproc
• services.xml - http
• services.xml - processing
• services.xml - search
• hosts.xml
• validation-overrides.xml
• Indexing Language Reference
• Custom Configuration File Reference
• mTLS Reference
• Internal Configuration File Reference
• Healthchecks Reference
• /state/v1 API Reference
• Deploy API
• HTTP Config API
• /application/v2/tenant API Reference
• /cluster/v2 API Reference
• /metrics/v1 API Reference
• /metrics/v2 API Reference
• /prometheus/v1 API Reference

• Ranking and ML models reference
• Tensor Evaluation Reference
• nativeRank Reference
• Rank Feature Reference
• String Segment Match
• Rank Feature Configuration
• Rank Types
• Stateless Model Reference
• Embedding Model Reference

• Queries and results reference
• Query Language Reference
• Simple Query Language Reference
• Select Reference
• Grouping Reference
• Sorting Reference
• Query Profile Reference
• Semantic Rule Language Reference
• Default JSON Result Format
• Page Templates Syntax
• Page Result Format
• Inspecting Structured Data in a Searcher
• Low-level request handler APIs

• Document API reference
• Document JSON Format
• Document Field Path Syntax
• Document Selector Language

• Component reference

• Metrics reference
• Default Metric Set Reference
• Container Metrics Reference
• Distributor Metrics Reference
• Searchnode Metrics Reference
• Storage Metrics Reference
• Configserver Metrics Reference
• Logd Metrics Reference
• Node Admin Metrics Reference
• Slobrok Metrics Reference
• Clustercontroller Metrics Reference
• Sentinel Metrics Reference
• Metric Units Reference

• Utilities and libraries
• Predicate Search Java Library
• pyvespa: Getting Started

• Contributing
• Build and install Vespa
• Documentation Conventions