metadata-filter

RAG metadata filter excluding valid documents in Google Gemini

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Problem Description During a rollout of an A/B test that adds dynamic metadata fields (e.g., promotion_code, confidence_score, user_attributes), the Gemini RAG pipeline starts rejecting a large fraction of candidate documents. The symptoms observed in production logs are: Retrieval failures with HTTP 400 responses. Log entries such as: 2026-07-08T12:34:56.789Z ERROR gemini.retrieval.filter Metadata schema validation failed: missing required … Read more

Pinecone RAG metadata filters excluding relevant documents

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Problem Description During a canary rollout, a subset of production traffic was routed to a staging Pinecone index that contains only 5 k vectors. The Retrieval‑Augmented Generation (RAG) pipeline applies a metadata filter to restrict results to the appropriate document_type and language. Engineers observed: Frequent hallucinated answers from the LLM because the retrieved context was empty … Read more

Haystack audio processing fails with empty document metadata

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Haystack Audio Processing Fails with Empty Document Metadata Problem Description During document ingestion, audio files are passed through the AudioDocumentConverter and Speech2Text nodes but the resulting Document.text field is empty and the metadata columns in PostgreSQL contain NULL or truncated values. The pipeline completes without raising an exception, yet the indexed documents contain no transcription … Read more

Grafana RAG metadata filter excluding relevant data sources

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Problem Description When developing locally with Grafana’s Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) component, engineers often observe that queries return incomplete or empty results. The RAG backend logs messages such as: 2024-05-12T14:23:07Z WARN rag.filter – RAG metadata filter: excluded source ‘my_test_ds’ due to missing tag ‘rag_enabled’ 2024-05-12T14:23:07Z WARN rag.filter – RAG filter applied, 0 of 5 candidate … Read more