For AI agents: The documentation index is at https://docs.digitalocean.com/llms.txt. Markdown versions of pages use the same URL with index.html.md in place of the HTML page (for example, append index.html.md to the directory path instead of opening the HTML document).

Getting Started

Quickstarts and intermediate tutorials to get started with Knowledge Bases.

How-Tos

How to accomplish specific tasks in detail, like creation/deletion, configuration, and management.

Reference

Native and third-party tools, troubleshooting, and answers to frequently asked questions.

Concepts

Explanations and definitions of core concepts for Knowledge Bases.

Details

Features, pricing, availability, limits, and more for Knowledge Bases.

Latest Updates

28 April 2026

• DigitalOcean Knowledge Base retrieval is now available through a DigitalOcean MCP server.

• DigitalOcean Knowledge Bases are now generally available in Data Services, letting you store, index, and retrieve data for AI applications.

• Data Services now lets you retrieve data from DigitalOcean Knowledge Bases using the Control Panel with semantic, keyword, or hybrid searches, apply filters, review retrieved chunks, and copy live code examples. For more information, see Test Knowledge Bases.

• Data Services now supports reranking for DigitalOcean Knowledge Bases to improve the relevance of retrieved results before they’re returned or used in generated responses. For more information, see Create Knowledge Bases and Test Knowledge Bases.

• RAG Playground is now available in DigitalOcean Knowledge Bases. It lets you run queries against a knowledge base and test how a serverless inference model generates answers from retrieved content.

  For more information, see the Data Services Features page.

• The following embeddings models are now available on Data Services for DigitalOcean Knowledge Bases:

  • E5 Large (v2)

  For more information, see the Available Models page.

• The following Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI) reranking model is now available on Data Services for DigitalOcean Knowledge Bases:

  • BGE Reranker (v2) M3

  For more information, see the Available Models page.

• The following embeddings models are now available on Data Services for DigitalOcean Knowledge Bases:

  • BGE M3

  For more information, see the Available Models page.

For more information, see all Knowledge Bases release notes.