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Version: 2.0

Quick Start

New users often find it challenging to get started with a new product and fully understand its capabilities. With Vectara, we've made it simple with our Quick Start tutorial. In just a couple minutes, you'll be issuing queries and getting answers about your data.

Step 1. Create a Vectara account​

To get started with Vectara's 30-day free trial, go to https://console.vectara.com/signup or click Get started at vectara.com. After you make an account, sign in!

You are greeted with this page which lets you try out a sample corpus with pre-filled data, or you can create your own corpus and upload data.

Vectara onboarding homepage

Step 2. Try a sample corpus​

Let's use the sample corpus that contains pre-filled data to learn about black holes!

  1. Select Try out a sample corpus.
  2. Vectara creates a sample corpus named black-holes-sample-data and adds data to this corpus.
  3. The sample corpus appears with queries that you can select and information about the corpus configuration, allowing you to select the Preview type and how to open the Inspector panel. Black holes sample corpus
  4. Select the query What's insides a black hole? and view the results: Black holes sample corpus
  5. Open the Inspector panel and select Request view the API request,
  6. specifically the query and search details.:

Inspector panel API request

  1. Select the Response tab and view the search_results array:

Inspector panel API response

This information is helpful for debugging purposes.

So what's next? Keep asking questions, or upload your own data into a corpus.

tip

If you want to start using our API Recipes, you need the customer_id and corpus_key values. Vectara sent you a welcome email with the Customer ID after you created the account. You set the Corpus Key when creating a corpus, but you can also view it in the UI.

View your Customer ID​

After you create an account, you can click your name in the upper-right corner to view your Customer ID, email, account size, and more. You need the Customer ID for many API requests.

You can click your name in the top, upper-right corner to reveal the customer_id.

View the Corpus Key​

Next to the Corpora label in the upper left corner, click black-holes-sample-data to reveal the corpus_key, corpus_id, and other information about the corpus.

Black holes corpus info