# Feature Requests **URL:** https://community.pinecone.io/c/feature-requests/40.md [Latest](https://community.pinecone.io/latest.md) · [Categories](https://community.pinecone.io/categories.md) · [Tags](https://community.pinecone.io/tags.md) --- ## [About the Feature Requests category](https://community.pinecone.io/t/about-the-feature-requests-category/3381)
**Author:** [@Cory\_Pinecone](https://community.pinecone.io/u/Cory_Pinecone)\ **Replies:** 0
Have an idea for a new Pinecone feature? This is the place to share it. Did someone else already post your feature request? Be sure to like their post to boost the visibility (and share your thoughts, too). --- ## ["Group by" like milvus/zilliz has](https://community.pinecone.io/t/group-by-like-milvus-zilliz-has/8526)
**Author:** [@scotteuser](https://community.pinecone.io/u/scotteuser)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [September 10, 2026, 5:16am UTC](https://community.pinecone.io/t/group-by-like-milvus-zilliz-has/8526 "2026-09-10T05:16:30Z")
When retrieving chunks, often the goal is to return the top e.g. 10 documents. If those documents have multiple chunks each, topK of 10 isn’t enough, we need to overshoot and/or recursively attempt to get more results to… --- ## [Want life-long, persistent, intellectual relationship with 5 frontier models](https://community.pinecone.io/t/want-life-long-persistent-intellectual-relationship-with-5-frontier-models/8501)
**Author:** [@gaoptimize](https://community.pinecone.io/u/gaoptimize)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [December 24, 2025, 3:43am UTC](https://community.pinecone.io/t/want-life-long-persistent-intellectual-relationship-with-5-frontier-models/8501 "2025-12-24T03:43:36Z")
I have come to the point of realizing I need a persistent relationship with 5 of the frontier models. I believe with a little engineering and a relatively cheap vector database, that is feasible right now. And this is … --- ## [Creating a storage integration programatically](https://community.pinecone.io/t/creating-a-storage-integration-programatically/8495)
**Author:** [@VarunGopalCommvault](https://community.pinecone.io/u/VarunGopalCommvault)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [December 11, 2025, 12:42pm UTC](https://community.pinecone.io/t/creating-a-storage-integration-programatically/8495 "2025-12-11T12:42:26Z")
Hi Pinecone Team, Would it be possible to create a storage integration programatically? If not can we expect this in the near future? --- ## [Importing from s3 using access key and secret key](https://community.pinecone.io/t/importing-from-s3-using-access-key-and-secret-key/8487)
**Author:** [@VarunGopalCommvault](https://community.pinecone.io/u/VarunGopalCommvault)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [December 1, 2025, 5:52am UTC](https://community.pinecone.io/t/importing-from-s3-using-access-key-and-secret-key/8487 "2025-12-01T05:52:28Z")
Hi Pinecone team, we understand that to import from s3 we require a storage integration that has an IAM role configured with the permissions to access the bucket. Instead of using a role would there be a provision to imp… --- ## [Export of backups](https://community.pinecone.io/t/export-of-backups/8443)
**Author:** [@VarunGopalCommvault](https://community.pinecone.io/u/VarunGopalCommvault)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [November 12, 2025, 4:35pm UTC](https://community.pinecone.io/t/export-of-backups/8443 "2025-11-12T16:35:43Z")
Hi there is a mention of export of backups being worked on in the documentation. By when can we expect this feature to be available? Thanking you, Varun --- ## [Usage Dashboard - Usage by Api Key](https://community.pinecone.io/t/usage-dashboard-usage-by-api-key/8377)
**Author:** [@Jasper](https://community.pinecone.io/u/Jasper)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [September 3, 2025, 3:27pm UTC](https://community.pinecone.io/t/usage-dashboard-usage-by-api-key/8377 "2025-09-03T15:27:37Z")
In addition to SKU, Project and Service, I would love to see a filter for ApiKey. For many reports and inquiries I get this would save we a lot of guesswork (I have ApiKeys split to dev-prod, sometimes by specific tes… --- ## [Add namespaces feature to assistant; add info about chosen chuck size, embedding, etc](https://community.pinecone.io/t/add-namespaces-feature-to-assistant-add-info-about-chosen-chuck-size-embedding-etc/8021)
**Author:** [@raphael.gugger](https://community.pinecone.io/u/raphael.gugger)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [June 23, 2025, 10:15am UTC](https://community.pinecone.io/t/add-namespaces-feature-to-assistant-add-info-about-chosen-chuck-size-embedding-etc/8021 "2025-06-23T10:15:23Z")
Hi folks, I find the Pinecone assistant super useful to start out with a use case. Great job! What I dearly miss is the possibility to test namespaces with the assistant. Example: If my use case involves three clients … --- ## [Support for delete by metadata filtering in Pinecone Serverless](https://community.pinecone.io/t/support-for-delete-by-metadata-filtering-in-pinecone-serverless/4636)
**Author:** [@abhijeeth](https://community.pinecone.io/u/abhijeeth)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [June 9, 2025, 12:24pm UTC](https://community.pinecone.io/t/support-for-delete-by-metadata-filtering-in-pinecone-serverless/4636 "2025-06-09T12:24:11Z")
Seems like Serverless and Starter indexes do not support deleting with metadata filtering. at the moment. Are there plans to support metadata based filtering and deletion in Pinecone Serverless? --- ## [MongoDB $regex operator for metadata filter](https://community.pinecone.io/t/mongodb-regex-operator-for-metadata-filter/8088)
**Author:** [@arell.code](https://community.pinecone.io/u/arell.code)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [June 6, 2025, 11:49am UTC](https://community.pinecone.io/t/mongodb-regex-operator-for-metadata-filter/8088 "2025-06-06T11:49:15Z")
Hi Pinecone Team, I’d like to request support for the $regex operator in Pinecone’s metadata filtering. In my current use case, I store a "city" field for each record, but the values are inconsistent. Some entries cont… --- ## [I want to connect the assistant with the database](https://community.pinecone.io/t/i-want-to-connect-the-assistant-with-the-database/7976)
**Author:** [@bermaneyal](https://community.pinecone.io/u/bermaneyal)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [May 13, 2025, 7:30pm UTC](https://community.pinecone.io/t/i-want-to-connect-the-assistant-with-the-database/7976 "2025-05-13T19:30:21Z")
i have a database with embeded data. i want to add an assitans that will use that db as data --- ## [Bulk Export](https://community.pinecone.io/t/bulk-export/3399)
**Author:** [@Cory\_Pinecone](https://community.pinecone.io/u/Cory_Pinecone)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [August 16, 2024, 4:44am UTC](https://community.pinecone.io/t/bulk-export/3399 "2024-08-16T04:44:29Z")
Just to kick things off here’s something a lot of customers have asked for: import/export of vectors. If this is something that would improve your use of Pinecone let us know by upvoting this comment. If you have any spe… --- ## [Add indexes as a datasource for assistants](https://community.pinecone.io/t/add-indexes-as-a-datasource-for-assistants/6704)
**Author:** [@softservesoftware](https://community.pinecone.io/u/softservesoftware)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [March 24, 2025, 8:06pm UTC](https://community.pinecone.io/t/add-indexes-as-a-datasource-for-assistants/6704 "2025-03-24T20:06:14Z")
One thing that would really be a game changer would be plugging assistants into an index. I assume this would be the eventual evolution of the assistants’ feature set. If so, I would love to get a timeline estimate on th… --- ## [Need some dark mode in this jon fr](https://community.pinecone.io/t/need-some-dark-mode-in-this-jon-fr/3955)
**Author:** [@aidan](https://community.pinecone.io/u/aidan)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [March 24, 2025, 10:33am UTC](https://community.pinecone.io/t/need-some-dark-mode-in-this-jon-fr/3955 "2025-03-24T10:33:19Z")
gimme some dark mode on god in the console cause i like to stare at my agent thinking and the pretty request latency graphs and upsertion/query graphs for real --- ## [LLM Evaluations - A way to run evaluations against the vector database](https://community.pinecone.io/t/llm-evaluations-a-way-to-run-evaluations-against-the-vector-database/7136)
**Author:** [@kavita1](https://community.pinecone.io/u/kavita1)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [March 17, 2025, 9:14pm UTC](https://community.pinecone.io/t/llm-evaluations-a-way-to-run-evaluations-against-the-vector-database/7136 "2025-03-17T21:14:09Z")
Today, we run LLM evaluations in a very adhoc way either on our own or using OpenAI’s evaluation tool, in theory I would like to plugin in my prompts and ground truth dataset with my vector database to run evals to under… --- ## [Picone java client 4.0.1 must work with Pinecone local](https://community.pinecone.io/t/picone-java-client-4-0-1-must-work-with-pinecone-local/7621)
**Author:** [@eddu.melendez](https://community.pinecone.io/u/eddu.melendez)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [March 12, 2025, 6:44pm UTC](https://community.pinecone.io/t/picone-java-client-4-0-1-must-work-with-pinecone-local/7621 "2025-03-12T18:44:18Z")
Pinecone Local was released for local development, see documentation. Documentation shows how it works with client version 3.1.0. Currently, client version 4.0.0 doesn’t work with pinecone local. It fails creating a serv… --- ## [Neighboring Chunks](https://community.pinecone.io/t/neighboring-chunks/7590)
**Author:** [@kyle](https://community.pinecone.io/u/kyle)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 23, 2025, 2:18am UTC](https://community.pinecone.io/t/neighboring-chunks/7590 "2025-02-23T02:18:06Z")
Ya’ll gonna have support for fetching neighboring chunks? --- ## [Rate limit queries per namespace](https://community.pinecone.io/t/rate-limit-queries-per-namespace/7340)
**Author:** [@jasonhvaccaro](https://community.pinecone.io/u/jasonhvaccaro)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [January 21, 2025, 5:31pm UTC](https://community.pinecone.io/t/rate-limit-queries-per-namespace/7340 "2025-01-21T17:31:49Z")
The Pinecone Serverless docs say “In a multitenant solution, you need to ensure that the queries of one tenant do not affect the experience of other tenants/customers. To achieve this in Pinecone, target each tenant’s qu… --- ## [Serverless regions in Asia?](https://community.pinecone.io/t/serverless-regions-in-asia/7371)
**Author:** [@david.micotto](https://community.pinecone.io/u/david.micotto)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [January 18, 2025, 4:49am UTC](https://community.pinecone.io/t/serverless-regions-in-asia/7371 "2025-01-18T04:49:14Z")
There are no options for Asia regions with Serverless hosting. Is this on the roadmap? Tokyo would be ideal. --- ## [Pinecone text client for node.js](https://community.pinecone.io/t/pinecone-text-client-for-node-js/3675)
**Author:** [@lele](https://community.pinecone.io/u/lele)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [January 8, 2025, 2:40pm UTC](https://community.pinecone.io/t/pinecone-text-client-for-node-js/3675 "2025-01-08T14:40:58Z")
To the best of my knowledge, the pinecone text client is only available for python. Would it be possible to make it available as a node package? --- ## [Import from bucket when using integrated inference](https://community.pinecone.io/t/import-from-bucket-when-using-integrated-inference/7132)
**Author:** [@eldridge.henley](https://community.pinecone.io/u/eldridge.henley)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [December 11, 2024, 6:38pm UTC](https://community.pinecone.io/t/import-from-bucket-when-using-integrated-inference/7132 "2024-12-11T18:38:29Z")
Hi all. Does the import from s3 work with this? If not, will there be an option for this in the future? My current understand is that it does not due to the import files needing the embedding data within it. Thanks an… --- ## [Pagination support](https://community.pinecone.io/t/pagination-support/3400)
**Author:** [@silas](https://community.pinecone.io/u/silas)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [December 11, 2024, 1:10am UTC](https://community.pinecone.io/t/pagination-support/3400 "2024-12-11T01:10:52Z")
(Continuing the discussion from Import/export of embeddings: ) Bulk export For a bulk export endpoint, pagination is important to consider. There are various approaches to pagination. Limit/offset params. Consistent… --- ## [Serverless Indexes Cloud Region](https://community.pinecone.io/t/serverless-indexes-cloud-region/7111)
**Author:** [@jiarongdev](https://community.pinecone.io/u/jiarongdev)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [December 8, 2024, 9:21am UTC](https://community.pinecone.io/t/serverless-indexes-cloud-region/7111 "2024-12-08T09:21:08Z")
Hi, what is the plan to expand Serverless Indexes to other cloud regions, say somewhere in APAC? --- ## [Bulk Metadata update feature](https://community.pinecone.io/t/bulk-metadata-update-feature/3930)
**Author:** [@info4](https://community.pinecone.io/u/info4)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [November 26, 2024, 7:29pm UTC](https://community.pinecone.io/t/bulk-metadata-update-feature/3930 "2024-11-26T19:29:21Z")
I want to update the metadata field ‘abcd’ for all vectors matching another metadata field value: filename=filename1 Suppose I query for all vectors with filename1 do one by one for each vector id as follows, it takes … --- ## [Feature Request and Feedback for Pinecone Assistant](https://community.pinecone.io/t/feature-request-and-feedback-for-pinecone-assistant/6726)
**Author:** [@dandur](https://community.pinecone.io/u/dandur)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [November 15, 2024, 10:40pm UTC](https://community.pinecone.io/t/feature-request-and-feedback-for-pinecone-assistant/6726 "2024-11-15T22:40:44Z")
I am writing to express my appreciation for Pinecone Assistant and to inquire about your roadmap for implementing several key features that would significantly enhance its capabilities and competitiveness. Specifically,… --- ## [Geo-distance metadata filters](https://community.pinecone.io/t/geo-distance-metadata-filters/3515)
**Author:** [@Cory\_Pinecone](https://community.pinecone.io/u/Cory_Pinecone)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [November 7, 2024, 12:06am UTC](https://community.pinecone.io/t/geo-distance-metadata-filters/3515 "2024-11-07T00:06:17Z")
A feature that allows for filtering vectors based on their distance from a given point, such as lat/long or S2 curves. --- ## [StartsWith Metadata Filter](https://community.pinecone.io/t/startswith-metadata-filter/6861)
**Author:** [@ravi.chotaliya](https://community.pinecone.io/u/ravi.chotaliya)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [October 31, 2024, 6:26am UTC](https://community.pinecone.io/t/startswith-metadata-filter/6861 "2024-10-31T06:26:11Z")
Hi Any update on support for StartsWith operator for metadata filtering. This is an important operator required by AWS Bedrock for applying filter on a Folder. so theirs a metadata stored for each files witch is AWS S3 … --- ## [Is there a way to get the least relevant results?](https://community.pinecone.io/t/is-there-a-way-to-get-the-least-relevant-results/6810)
**Author:** [@henophilia](https://community.pinecone.io/u/henophilia)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [October 23, 2024, 9:00am UTC](https://community.pinecone.io/t/is-there-a-way-to-get-the-least-relevant-results/6810 "2024-10-23T09:00:07Z")
Hey! I‘ve been using Pinecone for a bit and it works great! However, I have a use case for which I didn‘t find anything in the documentation: Essentially I have a spectrum of statements and want to find contradictions … --- ## [S3 bucket configuration for pinecone UI users](https://community.pinecone.io/t/s3-bucket-configuration-for-pinecone-ui-users/6725)
**Author:** [@dandur](https://community.pinecone.io/u/dandur)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [October 3, 2024, 12:58pm UTC](https://community.pinecone.io/t/s3-bucket-configuration-for-pinecone-ui-users/6725 "2024-10-03T12:58:05Z")
Can we configure our own storage (S3 bucket) for all users accessing the Pinecone Assistant UI? This is to ensure data security. Additionally, will we have access to the storage location where our users are uploading doc… --- ## [Can i configure user based access levels in pinecone assistant](https://community.pinecone.io/t/can-i-configure-user-based-access-levels-in-pinecone-assistant/6695)
**Author:** [@dandur](https://community.pinecone.io/u/dandur)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [October 2, 2024, 6:46pm UTC](https://community.pinecone.io/t/can-i-configure-user-based-access-levels-in-pinecone-assistant/6695 "2024-10-02T18:46:20Z")
We are comparing Pinecone assistant few other competitors for Implementing RAG based Knowledge base management. We are looking for a feature that enables user based access levels at Assistant level or its equivalent lev… [Next page](https://community.pinecone.io/c/feature-requests/40.md?page=1)