topic Re: Hosted Feature Layer - Create Index taking hours in ArcGIS Online Questions

Hosted Feature Layer - Create Index taking hours

MobiusSnake — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 10:13:51 GMT

Hi all,

Earlier today I created an attribute index on a table in a hosted feature layer. It included a single text column with a length of a hundred characters, nothing special about it. This would've been about four hours ago, and I'm still seeing this message:

Creating index

Indexes may take a moment depending upon the amount of data.

I've reloaded the page, closed the browser, come back later, it's still showing this message. The table only has about a hundred records in it so I would've expected it to be completed within a few seconds, certainly wouldn't expect it to take several hours.

Using my browser's network tools I can see it's checking the table's addToDefinition endpoint and coming back with this:

{ "submissionTime": 1714413410480, "lastUpdatedTime": 1714413410480, "status": "Pending" }

Both timestamps are about four hours ago as I'm posting this.

Has anyone seen this? Is there a timeout or a way to cancel the operation? I feel like something has gone very awry, and it's blocking me from creating additional attribute indexes.

Thanks!

Edit - To follow-up on this, it's now the next day and this is still happening.

Re: Hosted Feature Layer - Create Index taking hours

BrianFausel — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 18:10:12 GMT

I have seen this issue from time-to-time as well and would also be interested to see if there are any explanations or workarounds. I haven't had a chance to try to pinpoint why it happens because it is sporadic. I'd say 80% of the time I can create the indexes without issues. In my case it happens on an AGOL-hosted feature layer with approximately 15,000 points. I've seen it when creating attribute and full text Indexes for text fields of 100-255 characters.

The "creating index" occasionally runs for a long time, sometimes even over night. Sometimes it eventually does finish. Other times it doesn't but then I am able to overwrite the AGOL-hosted feature layer with an update from Pro (which automatically deletes indexes) and then the "create index" works fine on the updated layer.

Re: Hosted Feature Layer - Create Index taking hours

TanGnar — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 19:07:32 GMT

Seeing the same issue. I had indexes created, but needed to overwrite my service. When I did, now my 'Field Index' just gives me 'Creating index' and has yet to remove that message today.

This is impacting my search in experience builder... I need the field index so that the search will find text in the middle of a string in the field.

Re: Hosted Feature Layer - Create Index taking hours

ClintOffutt1 — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 15:31:51 GMT

Did anyone figure this out? I have having similar issues and not finding much documentation regarding a solution....

Re: Hosted Feature Layer - Create Index taking hours

DanielCross — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 14:38:04 GMT

Bump! I am having the same problem. It has been indexing for about 24 hours now.

Re: Hosted Feature Layer - Create Index taking hours

AbeMargo — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 19:21:22 GMT

Bump! Same thing here, would like to see a workaround! I am not able to overwrite in Pro for the map in question