Checking indexing policies for a collection with the Azure portal

An index policy specifies the indexing mode for a collection and includes a list of paths to index, or to exclude. The includedPaths key lists all the indexes in a container, the index types to be used, matching data types, and the index precision. Indexing policies can be manipulated on the fly by editing them on the Azure portal or with the Cosmos DB SDK.

Now we will use the Azure portal to check the indexing policy for the Competitions1 document collection.

In the Azure portal, make sure you are in the page for the Cosmos DB account in the portal. Click on the Data Explorer option, click on the database name you used in the configuration for the examples in previous chapters ( ...

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