Walk a Retrieval Incident
Triage vector search incidents with latency, traffic, errors, saturation, and correctness signals.
Incident Users report irrelevant citations. API latency and HTTP errors are normal. If monitoring only tracks infrastructure, retrieval correctness failures look invisible. SRE signals Latency, traffic, errors, saturation, plus correctness. The classic golden signals reveal service health. Retrieval correctness reveals whether a successful search returned useful, eligible, fresh records. Shortcut Restart the API because users are unhappy. A fix aimed at the broken layer. Alert on user-visible symptoms and keep debug signals for causes. 01 Symptom 02 Layer 03 Fresh case Name the symptom what broke
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