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).

Limits

• Knowledge base creation is limited by account tier:

  Tier	Knowledge Bases
  Tier 1	15
  Tier 2	60
  Tier 3	60
  Tier 4	60
  Tier 5	120
  Enterprise	Contact support

• The MCP server endpoint uses the standard API rate limits. If you need higher limits for production workloads, contact support.

• Reranking is not supported through the knowledge bases MCP endpoint.

• You cannot change embeddings models after creating a knowledge base.

• You cannot change the OpenSearch database for an existing knowledge base. To use a different database, create a new knowledge base with the same data sources, and then choose the new OpenSearch database you want to use.

Data Source Limits

• Estimates are available only for locally uploaded files and Spaces buckets. External sources cannot be estimated.

• Estimates are approximate and may differ from the final extractable text due to file structure, parsing behavior, or non-text (binary) content.

• For web crawling data sources, the crawler indexes up to 5,500 pages and skips inaccessible or disallowed links to prevent excessively large indexing jobs.

• The size of S3 buckets is unavailable in the Control Panel. You can view the size of S3 buckets on Amazon.

• You cannot currently reindex a previously crawled seed URL. To reindex the content, delete the seed URL, and then add it again to start a new crawl.

• Knowledge bases partially support indexing PowerPoint files (.ppt, .pptx). Text is extracted, but images and other visual content are not processed.

• Indexing image files (such as .png, .jpeg, .tiff, and .bmp) are not currently supported.

Indexing Limits

• Indexable size cannot be predicted for web crawls, GitHub repositories, external URLs, APIs, or any source that cannot be inspected beforehand.

• You cannot re-index specific data sources within a knowledge base. To re-index any changed data sources, you need to reindex all the data sources.

• Auto-indexing your data sources currently runs only once per day, up to seven days a week.

Chunking Limits

• Chunk sizes (max_chunk_size, parent_chunk_size, child_chunk_size) must remain within the token limits of the selected embeddings model.

• All chunking strategies enforce a minimum chunk size of approximately 100 tokens.

• Chunking settings apply per data source, not globally.

• Changing the chunking strategy after a data source is created is not supported. To change strategies, you must remove the data source, and then re-add it with the preferred strategy.

Activity Limits

• Only the 15 most recent activities are listed in a knowledge base’s Activity tab. If you want to keep a copy of the past indexing job logs, download the CSV file after running your indexing job.

• You cannot access your knowledge base’s activity logs through the DigitalOcean API. Activity logs are only available in the Control Panel.

• A knowledge base’s activity logs currently track only indexing jobs.