elasticsearch/docs/reference/inference/update-inference.asciidoc

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[[update-inference-api]]
=== Update inference API

Updates an {infer} endpoint.

IMPORTANT: The {infer} APIs enable you to use certain services, such as built-in {ml} models (ELSER, E5), models uploaded through Eland, Cohere, OpenAI, Azure, Google AI Studio, Google Vertex AI, Anthropic, Watsonx.ai, or Hugging Face.
For built-in models and models uploaded through Eland, the {infer} APIs offer an alternative way to use and manage trained models.
However, if you do not plan to use the {infer} APIs to use these models or if you want to use non-NLP models, use the <<ml-df-trained-models-apis>>.


[discrete]
[[update-inference-api-request]]
==== {api-request-title}

`POST _inference/<inference_id>/_update`

`POST _inference/<task_type>/<inference_id>/_update`


[discrete]
[[update-inference-api-prereqs]]
==== {api-prereq-title}

* Requires the `manage_inference` <<privileges-list-cluster,cluster privilege>> (the built-in inference_admin role grants this privilege)
* Requires an existing {infer} endpoint, created by using the <<put-inference-api>>


[discrete]
[[update-inference-api-desc]]
==== {api-description-title}

The update inference API enables you to update the task_settings, secrets, and/or num_allocations of an existing {infer} endpoint.

To use the update API, you can modify `task_settings`, secrets (within `service_settings`), or `num_allocations`, depending on the specific endpoint service and task_type you've created.
To view the updatable `task_settings`, the field names of secrets (specific to each service), and the services where `num_allocations` is applicable (only for the `elasticsearch` service), refer to the following list of services available through the {infer} API.
You will find the available task types next to each service name.
Click the links to review the service configuration details:

* <<infer-service-alibabacloud-ai-search,AlibabaCloud AI Search>> (`completion`, `rerank`, `sparse_embedding`, `text_embedding`)
* <<infer-service-amazon-bedrock,Amazon Bedrock>> (`completion`, `text_embedding`)
* <<infer-service-anthropic,Anthropic>> (`completion`)
* <<infer-service-azure-ai-studio,Azure AI Studio>> (`completion`, `text_embedding`)
* <<infer-service-azure-openai,Azure OpenAI>> (`completion`, `text_embedding`)
* <<infer-service-cohere,Cohere>> (`completion`, `rerank`, `text_embedding`)
* <<infer-service-elasticsearch,Elasticsearch>> (`rerank`, `sparse_embedding`, `text_embedding` - this service is for built-in models and models uploaded through Eland)
* <<infer-service-elser,ELSER>> (`sparse_embedding`)
* <<infer-service-google-ai-studio,Google AI Studio>> (`completion`, `text_embedding`)
* <<infer-service-google-vertex-ai,Google Vertex AI>> (`rerank`, `text_embedding`) 
* <<infer-service-hugging-face,Hugging Face>> (`text_embedding`)
* <<infer-service-mistral,Mistral>> (`text_embedding`)
* <<infer-service-openai,OpenAI>> (`completion`, `text_embedding`)


[discrete]
[[update-inference-api-path-params]]
==== {api-path-parms-title}

`<inference_id>`::
(Required, string)
The unique identifier of the {infer} endpoint.


`<task_type>`::
(Optional, string)
The type of {infer} task that the model performs.
Refer to the service list in the <<put-inference-api-desc,API description section>> for the available task types.


[discrete]
[[update-inference-api-example]]
==== {api-examples-title}

The following example shows how to update an API key of an {infer} endpoint called `my-inference-endpoint`:

[source,console]
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POST _inference/my-inference-endpoint/_update
{
 "service_settings": {
   "api_key": "<API_KEY>"
 }
}
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// TEST[skip:TBD]