Aliases - Create

Service:: Search Service

API Version:: 2026-04-01

Creates a new search alias.

POST {endpoint}/aliases?api-version=2026-04-01

URI Parameters

Name	In	Required	Type	Description
endpoint	path	True	string (uri)	The endpoint URL of the search service.
api-version	query	True	string minLength: 1	The API version to use for this operation.

Request Header

Name	Required	Type	Description
Accept		Accept	The Accept header.
x-ms-client-request-id		string (uuid)	An opaque, globally-unique, client-generated string identifier for the request.

Request Body

Name	Required	Type	Description
indexes	True	string[]	The name of the index this alias maps to. Only one index name may be specified.
name	True	string	The name of the alias.
@odata.etag		string	The ETag of the alias.

Responses

Name	Type	Description
201 Created	SearchAlias	The request has succeeded and a new resource has been created as a result.
Other Status Codes	ErrorResponse	An unexpected error response.

Security

api-key

Type: apiKey
In: header

OAuth2Auth

Type: oauth2
Flow: implicit
Authorization URL: https://login.microsoftonline.com/common/oauth2/v2.0/authorize

Scopes

Name	Description
https://search.azure.com/.default

Examples

SearchServiceCreateAlias

Sample request

HTTP

POST https://exampleservice.search.windows.net/aliases?api-version=2026-04-01


{
  "name": "tempalias",
  "indexes": [
    "example-index"
  ],
  "@odata.etag": "0x1234568AE7E58A1"
}

Sample response

Status code:: 201

{
  "name": "tempalias",
  "indexes": [
    "example-index"
  ]
}

Definitions

Name	Description
Accept	The Accept header.
ErrorAdditionalInfo	The resource management error additional info.
ErrorDetail	The error detail.
ErrorResponse	Common error response for all Azure Resource Manager APIs to return error details for failed operations. (This also follows the OData error response format.).
SearchAlias	Represents an index alias, which describes a mapping from the alias name to an index. The alias name can be used in place of the index name for supported operations.

Accept

Enumeration

The Accept header.

Value	Description
application/json;odata.metadata=minimal

ErrorAdditionalInfo

Object

The resource management error additional info.

Name	Type	Description
info		The additional info.
type	string	The additional info type.

ErrorDetail

Object

The error detail.

Name	Type	Description
additionalInfo	ErrorAdditionalInfo[]	The error additional info.
code	string	The error code.
details	ErrorDetail[]	The error details.
message	string	The error message.
target	string	The error target.

ErrorResponse

Object

Common error response for all Azure Resource Manager APIs to return error details for failed operations. (This also follows the OData error response format.).

Name	Type	Description
error	ErrorDetail	The error object.

SearchAlias

Object

Represents an index alias, which describes a mapping from the alias name to an index. The alias name can be used in place of the index name for supported operations.

Name	Type	Description
@odata.etag	string	The ETag of the alias.
indexes	string[]	The name of the index this alias maps to. Only one index name may be specified.
name	string	The name of the alias.