Create a Google Vertex AI inference endpoint | Elasticsearch API documentation (8x-unreleased)

Create a Google Vertex AI inference endpoint Generally available; Added in 8.15.0

PUT /_inference/{task_type}/{googlevertexai_inference_id}

Create an inference endpoint to perform an inference task with the googlevertexai service. ##Required authorization

Cluster privileges: manage_inference

Path parameters

task_type string Required

The type of the inference task that the model will perform.

Values are rerank, text_embedding, completion, or chat_completion.
googlevertexai_inference_id string Required

The unique identifier of the inference endpoint.

application/json

Body

chunking_settings object
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- max_chunk_size number
  
  The maximum size of a chunk in words. This value cannot be higher than 300 or lower than 20 (for sentence strategy) or 10 (for word strategy).
- overlap number
  
  The number of overlapping words for chunks. It is applicable only to a word chunking strategy. This value cannot be higher than half the max_chunk_size value.
- sentence_overlap number
  
  The number of overlapping sentences for chunks. It is applicable only for a sentence chunking strategy. It can be either 1 or 0.
- strategy string
  
  The chunking strategy: sentence or word.
service string Required

Value is googlevertexai.
service_settings object Required
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- location string Required
  
  The name of the location to use for the inference task. Refer to the Google documentation for the list of supported locations.
  
  External documentation
- model_id string Required
  
  The name of the model to use for the inference task. Refer to the Google documentation for the list of supported models.
  
  External documentation
- project_id string Required
  
  The name of the project to use for the inference task.
- rate_limit object
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  requests_per_minute number
  
  The number of requests allowed per minute.
- service_account_json string Required
  
  A valid service account in JSON format for the Google Vertex AI API.
task_settings object
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- auto_truncate boolean
  
  For a text_embedding task, truncate inputs longer than the maximum token length automatically.
- top_n number
  
  For a rerank task, the number of the top N documents that should be returned.

Responses

200 application/json
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- chunking_settings object
  
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  max_chunk_size number
  
  The maximum size of a chunk in words. This value cannot be higher than 300 or lower than 20 (for sentence strategy) or 10 (for word strategy).
  
  overlap number
  
  The number of overlapping words for chunks. It is applicable only to a word chunking strategy. This value cannot be higher than half the max_chunk_size value.
  
  sentence_overlap number
  
  The number of overlapping sentences for chunks. It is applicable only for a sentence chunking strategy. It can be either 1 or 0.
  
  strategy string
  
  The chunking strategy: sentence or word.
- service string Required
  
  The service type
- service_settings object Required
- task_settings object
- inference_id string Required
  
  The inference Id
- task_type string Required
  
  Values are text_embedding or rerank.

PUT /_inference/{task_type}/{googlevertexai_inference_id}

PUT _inference/text_embedding/google_vertex_ai_embeddingss
{
    "service": "googlevertexai",
    "service_settings": {
        "service_account_json": "service-account-json",
        "model_id": "model-id",
        "location": "location",
        "project_id": "project-id"
    }
}

curl \
 --request PUT 'http://api.example.com/_inference/{task_type}/{googlevertexai_inference_id}' \
 --header "Content-Type: application/json" \
 --data '"{\n    \"service\": \"googlevertexai\",\n    \"service_settings\": {\n        \"service_account_json\": \"service-account-json\",\n        \"model_id\": \"model-id\",\n        \"location\": \"location\",\n        \"project_id\": \"project-id\"\n    }\n}"'

Request examples

Run `PUT _inference/text_embedding/google_vertex_ai_embeddings` to create an inference endpoint to perform a `text_embedding` task type.

{
    "service": "googlevertexai",
    "service_settings": {
        "service_account_json": "service-account-json",
        "model_id": "model-id",
        "location": "location",
        "project_id": "project-id"
    }
}

Run `PUT _inference/rerank/google_vertex_ai_rerank` to create an inference endpoint to perform a `rerank` task type.

{
    "service": "googlevertexai",
    "service_settings": {
        "service_account_json": "service-account-json",
        "project_id": "project-id"
    }
}

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