Create an OpenAI inference endpoint Generally available; Added in 8.12.0

PUT /_inference/{task_type}/{openai_inference_id}

Create an inference endpoint to perform an inference task with the openai service or openai compatible APIs.

Required authorization

  • Cluster privileges: manage_inference

Path parameters

  • task_type string

    The type of the inference task that the model will perform. NOTE: The chat_completion task type only supports streaming and only through the _stream API.

    Values are chat_completion, completion, or text_embedding.

  • openai_inference_id string Required

    The unique identifier of the inference endpoint.

Query parameters

  • timeout string

    Specifies the amount of time to wait for the inference endpoint to be created.

    Values are -1 or 0.

application/json

Body

  • chunking_settings object

    Chunking configuration object

    Hide chunking_settings attributes Show chunking_settings attributes object
    • 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).

      Default value is 250.

    • 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.

      Default value is 100.

    • 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.

      Default value is 1.

    • separator_group string Required

      This parameter is only applicable when using the recursive chunking strategy.

      Sets a predefined list of separators in the saved chunking settings based on the selected text type. Values can be markdown or plaintext.

      Using this parameter is an alternative to manually specifying a custom separators list.

    • separators array[string] Required

      A list of strings used as possible split points when chunking text with the recursive strategy.

      Each string can be a plain string or a regular expression (regex) pattern. The system tries each separator in order to split the text, starting from the first item in the list.

      After splitting, it attempts to recombine smaller pieces into larger chunks that stay within the max_chunk_size limit, to reduce the total number of chunks generated.

    • strategy string

      The chunking strategy: sentence, word, none or recursive.

      • If strategy is set to recursive, you must also specify:

        • max_chunk_size
        • either separators orseparator_group

      Learn more about different chunking strategies in the linked documentation.

      Default value is sentence.

      External documentation
  • service string Required

    Value is openai.

  • service_settings object Required
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    • api_key string Required

      A valid API key of your OpenAI account. You can find your OpenAI API keys in your OpenAI account under the API keys section.

      IMPORTANT: You need to provide the API key only once, during the inference model creation. The get inference endpoint API does not retrieve your API key. After creating the inference model, you cannot change the associated API key. If you want to use a different API key, delete the inference model and recreate it with the same name and the updated API key.

      External documentation
    • dimensions number

      The number of dimensions the resulting output embeddings should have. It is supported only in text-embedding-3 and later models. If it is not set, the OpenAI defined default for the model is used.

    • model_id string Required

      The name of the model to use for the inference task. Refer to the OpenAI documentation for the list of available text embedding models.

      External documentation
    • organization_id string

      The unique identifier for your organization. You can find the Organization ID in your OpenAI account under Settings > Organizations.

    • rate_limit object

      This setting helps to minimize the number of rate limit errors returned from the service.

      Hide rate_limit attribute Show rate_limit attribute object
      • requests_per_minute number

        The number of requests allowed per minute. By default, the number of requests allowed per minute is set by each service as follows:

        • alibabacloud-ai-search service: 1000
        • anthropic service: 50
        • azureaistudio service: 240
        • azureopenai service and task type text_embedding: 1440
        • azureopenai service and task type completion: 120
        • cohere service: 10000
        • elastic service and task type chat_completion: 240
        • googleaistudio service: 360
        • googlevertexai service: 30000
        • hugging_face service: 3000
        • jinaai service: 2000
        • mistral service: 240
        • openai service and task type text_embedding: 3000
        • openai service and task type completion: 500
        • voyageai service: 2000
        • watsonxai service: 120
    • url string

      The URL endpoint to use for the requests. It can be changed for testing purposes.

      Default value is https://api.openai.com/v1/embeddings..

  • task_settings object
    Hide task_settings attribute Show task_settings attribute object
    • user string

      For a completion or text_embedding task, specify the user issuing the request. This information can be used for abuse detection.

Responses

  • 200 application/json
    Hide response attributes Show response attributes object
    • chunking_settings object

      Chunking configuration object

      Hide chunking_settings attributes Show chunking_settings attributes object
      • 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).

        Default value is 250.

      • 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.

        Default value is 100.

      • 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.

        Default value is 1.

      • separator_group string Required

        This parameter is only applicable when using the recursive chunking strategy.

        Sets a predefined list of separators in the saved chunking settings based on the selected text type. Values can be markdown or plaintext.

        Using this parameter is an alternative to manually specifying a custom separators list.

      • separators array[string] Required

        A list of strings used as possible split points when chunking text with the recursive strategy.

        Each string can be a plain string or a regular expression (regex) pattern. The system tries each separator in order to split the text, starting from the first item in the list.

        After splitting, it attempts to recombine smaller pieces into larger chunks that stay within the max_chunk_size limit, to reduce the total number of chunks generated.

      • strategy string

        The chunking strategy: sentence, word, none or recursive.

        • If strategy is set to recursive, you must also specify:

          • max_chunk_size
          • either separators orseparator_group

        Learn more about different chunking strategies in the linked documentation.

        Default value is sentence.

        External documentation
    • 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, chat_completion, or completion.

PUT /_inference/{task_type}/{openai_inference_id}
PUT _inference/text_embedding/openai-embeddings
{
    "service": "openai",
    "service_settings": {
        "api_key": "OpenAI-API-Key",
        "model_id": "text-embedding-3-small",
        "dimensions": 128
    }
}
resp = client.inference.put(
    task_type="text_embedding",
    inference_id="openai-embeddings",
    inference_config={
        "service": "openai",
        "service_settings": {
            "api_key": "OpenAI-API-Key",
            "model_id": "text-embedding-3-small",
            "dimensions": 128
        }
    },
)
const response = await client.inference.put({
  task_type: "text_embedding",
  inference_id: "openai-embeddings",
  inference_config: {
    service: "openai",
    service_settings: {
      api_key: "OpenAI-API-Key",
      model_id: "text-embedding-3-small",
      dimensions: 128,
    },
  },
});
response = client.inference.put(
  task_type: "text_embedding",
  inference_id: "openai-embeddings",
  body: {
    "service": "openai",
    "service_settings": {
      "api_key": "OpenAI-API-Key",
      "model_id": "text-embedding-3-small",
      "dimensions": 128
    }
  }
)
$resp = $client->inference()->put([
    "task_type" => "text_embedding",
    "inference_id" => "openai-embeddings",
    "body" => [
        "service" => "openai",
        "service_settings" => [
            "api_key" => "OpenAI-API-Key",
            "model_id" => "text-embedding-3-small",
            "dimensions" => 128,
        ],
    ],
]);
curl -X PUT -H "Authorization: ApiKey $ELASTIC_API_KEY" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"service":"openai","service_settings":{"api_key":"OpenAI-API-Key","model_id":"text-embedding-3-small","dimensions":128}}' "$ELASTICSEARCH_URL/_inference/text_embedding/openai-embeddings"
client.inference().put(p -> p
    .inferenceId("openai-embeddings")
    .taskType(TaskType.TextEmbedding)
    .inferenceConfig(i -> i
        .service("openai")
        .serviceSettings(JsonData.fromJson("{\"api_key\":\"OpenAI-API-Key\",\"model_id\":\"text-embedding-3-small\",\"dimensions\":128}"))
    )
);
Request examples
Run `PUT _inference/text_embedding/openai-embeddings` to create an inference endpoint that performs a `text_embedding` task. The embeddings created by requests to this endpoint will have 128 dimensions.
{
    "service": "openai",
    "service_settings": {
        "api_key": "OpenAI-API-Key",
        "model_id": "text-embedding-3-small",
        "dimensions": 128
    }
}
Run `PUT _inference/completion/amazon_bedrock_completion` to create an inference endpoint to perform a completion task.
{
    "service": "amazonbedrock",
    "service_settings": {
        "access_key": "AWS-access-key",
        "secret_key": "AWS-secret-key",
        "region": "us-east-1",
        "provider": "amazontitan",
        "model": "amazon.titan-text-premier-v1:0"
    }
}