  According to gauge/gravity correspondence, we study the holographic Schwinger
effect within an anisotropic background. Firstly, the separate length of the
particle-antiparticle pairs is computed within the context of an anisotropic
background which is parameterized by dynamical exponent $\nu$. It is found that
the maximum separate length $x$ increases with the increase of dynamical
exponent $\nu$. By analyzing the potential energy, we find that the potential
barrier increases with the dynamical exponent $\nu$ at a small separate
distance. This observation implies that the Schwinger effect within an
anisotropic background is comparatively weaker when contrasted with its
manifestation in an isotropic background.Finally, we also find that the
Schwinger effect in the transverse direction is weakened compared to the
parallel direction in the anisotropic background, which is consistent with the
top-down model.
