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Status Under Consideration
Categories Atlas Search
Created by Guest
Created on May 7, 2020

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Errors When Querying Non-existent Indexes

I renamed the first index I created when testing out the feature so it wasn't default, and spent quite a bit of time debugging why my queries were returning no documents. As it turns out it the default index that it queries if not defined is "default", but that index didn't exist. Instead of throwing an error about querying a non-existent index, it just returned an empty array which was very frustrating
  • ADMIN RESPONSE
    Oct 18, 2025
    This work is under review and research.
  • Guest
    Dec 12, 2022
    Upvote. We had numerous incidents on production because of that. On the good side, now we have canary testing, and empty responses alerts, but all of this could be avoided.
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