Configuring index settings

This tutorial shows how to check and change an index setting using the Meilisearch Cloud interface.

This tutorial will show you how to check and change an index setting using the Meilisearch Cloud interface.

Requirements

• an active Meilisearch Cloud account
• a Meilisearch Cloud project with at least one index

Accessing a project’s index settings

Log into your Meilisearch account and navigate to your project. Then, click on “Indexes”:

Find the index you want to configure and click on its “Settings” button:

Checking a setting’s current value

Using the menu on the left-hand side, click on “Attributes”:

The first setting is “Searchable attributes” and lists all attributes in your dataset’s documents:

Clicking on other settings will show you similar interfaces that allow visualizing and editing all Meilisearch index settings.

Updating a setting

All documents include a primary key attribute. In most cases, this attribute does not contain information relevant for searches, so you can improve your application’s search by explicitly removing it from the searchable attributes list.

Find your primary key, then click on the bin icon:

Meilisearch will display a pop-up window asking you to confirm you want to remove the attribute from the searchable attributes list. Click on “Yes, remove attribute”:

Most updates to an index’s settings will cause Meilisearch to re-index all its data. Wait a few moments until this operation is complete. You are not allowed to update any index settings during this time.

Once Meilisearch finishes indexing, the primary key will no longer appear in the searchable attributes list:

If you deleted the wrong attribute, click on “Add attributes” to add it back to the list. You may also click on “Reset to default”, which will bring back the searchable list to its original state when you first added your first document to this index:

Conclusion

You have used the Meilisearch Cloud interface to check the value of an index setting. This revealed an opportunity to improve your project’s performance, so you updated this index setting to make your application better and more responsive.

This tutorial used the “Searchable attributes” setting, but the procedure is the same no matter which index setting you are editing.

What’s next

If you prefer to access the settings API directly through your console, you can also configure index settings using the Meilisearch Cloud API.

For a comprehensive reference of all index settings, consult the settings API reference.