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Getting started
Vespa Overview
Features
Getting Started
Vespa CLI
Getting Started with Ranking
Tutorials
Vespa API and Interfaces
Frequently Asked Questions - FAQ
Glossary
Schemas and documents
Documents
Schemas
Parent/Child
Annotations API
Concrete document types
Exposing schema information
Reading and writing
Reads and Writes
/document/v1
Visiting
Vespa Feed Client
Indexing
Document API
Partial Updates
Querying
Query API
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
Ranking Introduction
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
Linguistics and text processing
Linguistics in Vespa
Query Rewriting
Embedding text
Troubleshooting character encoding
Lucene Linguistics
Tutorials and quick starts
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
Applications and components
Developer Guide
Application Packages
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
RAG in Vespa
Content clusters
Elasticity
Proton
Content Nodes and States
Consistency Model
Distribution Algorithm
Buckets
Performance and tuning
Performance intro
Practical performance guide
Serving Sizing Guide
Feed Sizing Guide
Sizing Examples
Binarizing Vectors
Document Attributes
Benchmarking
Profiling
Container Tuning
Rate-Limiting Search Requests
HTTP/2
Graceful Query Coverage Degradation
Caches
HTTP Performance Testing
Feature Tuning
Valgrind
Operations
Metrics
Logs
Access Logging
Batch delete
Feed block
Reindexing
Tools
Operations - selfhosted
Multinode Systems
Administrative Procedures
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
Configuration reference
Application Package 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
Ranking Expressions
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 API 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/v1 API reference
Document JSON Format
Document Field Path Syntax
Document Selector Language
Component reference
Component Reference
Metrics reference
Vespa Metric Set 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
Contributing to Vespa
Documentation Conventions
Config API
Developing Config Model Plugins
Developing with the Java Cloud Config API
Using the C++ Cloud config API
NodeAdmin Metrics
Name
Unit
Description
endpoint.certificate.expiry.seconds
second
Time until node endpoint certificate expires
node-certificate.expiry.seconds
second
Time until node certificate expires