Azure Search for Blob Storage is not working.

Question

Step 1: I have created a General Purpose Blob Storage (block blob) and a container (access policy set to "container") in it. Also added 19 documents (pdf, xlsx, docx, ppt, png, jpg, txt) and all documents are displayed in azure portal --> Blob Storage Container.

Step 2: Created Azure search (basic tier) and followed this article and performed the following.

Step 3: Created a datasource

POST https://anysearch.search.windows.net/datasources?api-version=2015-02-28-Preview
Content-Type: application/json
api-key: adminkey

{
    "name" : "blob-datasource",
    "type" : "azureblob",
    "credentials" : { "connectionString" : "DefaultEndpointsProtocol=https;AccountName=mystorage;AccountKey=givenkey==" },
    "container" : { "name" : "containername"}
}

Step 4: Created an index

POST https://anysearch.search.windows.net/indexes?api-version=2015-02-28-Preview
Content-Type: application/json
api-key: adminkey

{
    "name" : "my-target-index",
    "fields": [
        { "name": "id", "type": "Edm.String", "key": true, "searchable": false },
        { "name": "content", "type": "Edm.String", "searchable": true, "filterable": false, "sortable": false, "facetable": false }
    ]
}

Step 5: Created an indexer.

POST https://anyearch.search.windows.net/indexers?api-version=2015-02-28-Preview
Content-Type: application/json
api-key: adminkey

{
  "name" : "blob-indexer",
  "dataSourceName" : "blob-datasource",
  "targetIndexName" : "my-target-index",
  "schedule" : { "interval" : "PT5M" }
}

Step 6: Run index stats and got the below result - DOCUMENTCOUNT = 0

GET https://anysearch.search.windows.net/indexes/my-target-index/stats?api-version=2015-02-28-Preview
api-key: [admin key]

{
  "@odata.context": "https://mydocsearch.search.windows.net/$metadata#Microsoft.Azure.Search.V2015_02_28_Preview.IndexStatistics",
  "documentCount": 0,
  "storageSize": 1728
}

Step 7: Searched for the word "process" and got the below result

GET https://anysearch.search.windows.net/indexes/my-target-index/docs?api-version=2015-02-28&search=process

{
    "@odata.context": "https://mydocsearch.search.windows.net/indexes('my-target-index')/$metadata#docs(id,content)",
    "value": []
}

What went wrong here ? Why the document count is 0 ? Why the word "process" or any other search word is not returning any results ?

Please help.

Thanks

Bhanu.

Eugene Shvets Eugene Shvets · Accepted Answer · 2016-07-28T07:25:38

You need to make sure indexer runs successfully before you can search for the documents. You can monitor indexer status in the portal or programmatically, and this will usually tell you why documents are not being indexed. In your case, the container has jpeg and png files, which are not supported (by default, this situation stops indexer execution). Please review the list of supported formats here.

Azure Search for Blob Storage is not working.

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