openapi: 3.1.0 info: title: Azure Cosmos DB Data Plane REST Collections API version: '2018-12-31' description: 'Data-plane REST API for Azure Cosmos DB (SQL/Core API). Requests are sent to the per-account endpoint `https://{databaseaccount}.documents.azure.com` and authorized with a master key or resource token using HMAC-signed `Authorization` headers, or with a Microsoft Entra ID bearer token. The `x-ms-version` header selects the API version; the latest known version is used when omitted. ' contact: name: Azure Cosmos DB REST API url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/cosmos-db/ servers: - url: https://{databaseaccount}.documents.azure.com description: Cosmos DB account endpoint variables: databaseaccount: default: my-account description: Your Cosmos DB account name tags: - name: Collections description: Document collections (containers) paths: /dbs/{dbId}/colls: parameters: - in: path name: dbId required: true schema: type: string get: summary: List collections in a database operationId: listCollections tags: - Collections responses: '200': description: Collections content: application/json: schema: type: object properties: DocumentCollections: type: array items: type: object security: - cosmosAuth: [] - entra: [] post: summary: Create a collection operationId: createCollection tags: - Collections requestBody: required: true content: application/json: schema: type: object required: - id properties: id: type: string partitionKey: type: object indexingPolicy: type: object responses: '201': description: Collection created content: application/json: schema: type: object security: - cosmosAuth: [] - entra: [] /dbs/{dbId}/colls/{collId}: parameters: - in: path name: dbId required: true schema: type: string - in: path name: collId required: true schema: type: string get: summary: Get a collection operationId: getCollection tags: - Collections responses: '200': description: Collection content: application/json: schema: type: object security: - cosmosAuth: [] - entra: [] delete: summary: Delete a collection operationId: deleteCollection tags: - Collections responses: '204': description: Deleted security: - cosmosAuth: [] - entra: [] components: securitySchemes: cosmosAuth: type: apiKey in: header name: Authorization description: 'Cosmos DB master-key or resource-token HMAC signature. Format: `type=master&ver=1.0&sig=` (URL-encoded). See https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/cosmos-db/access-control-on-cosmosdb-resources ' entra: type: oauth2 description: Microsoft Entra ID OAuth 2.0 bearer token flows: clientCredentials: tokenUrl: https://login.microsoftonline.com/common/oauth2/v2.0/token scopes: https://cosmos.azure.com/.default: Cosmos DB data plane access