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RAG observability traces retrieval, context assembly, and generation so teams can see which chunks were shown, whether required facts were retrieved, and where faithfulness breaks. It complements offline evaluation with production traces — not a substitute for recall benchmarks.
Teams evaluate RAG in two layers: retrieval (did we fetch the right chunks?) and generation (did the answer stay faithfu
RAG hallucinations often come from wrong or missing chunks — not from the model “making things up” in isolation. Experts
Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) grounds a language model on retrieved documents at query time. The clearest expert
A vector database stores embeddings for similarity search; RAG is the full pipeline that retrieves passages and conditio
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"There are a few metrics, but the most important one for us is “Recall.” Basically, for a given question, there is at least one required fact. If the retrieval step of the application found at least one context for every required fact, we mark that for a set of questions."
Weaviate team · RAG observability and tracing · 2:41
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You might be missing data. You might be chunking them in the wrong way. You might be using an embedding model that isn't optimum. Maybe your retrieval strategy needs to change.
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Teams evaluate RAG in two layers: retrieval (did we fetch the right chunks?) and generation (did the answer stay faithfu
RAG hallucinations often come from wrong or missing chunks — not from the model “making things up” in isolation. Experts
Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) grounds a language model on retrieved documents at query time. The clearest expert
A vector database stores embeddings for similarity search; RAG is the full pipeline that retrieves passages and conditio
Evaluation scores whether retrieval and answers meet benchmarks on fixed datasets. Observability log
Chunking determines which text exists in the index at all. Reranking only reorders candidates alread
Semantic search returns ranked passages by embedding similarity. RAG adds chunking strategy, context
Practitioners prioritize retrieval recall on required facts per question set before generation metri
RAG reduces unsupported answers by showing the model retrieved passages. It does not eliminate hallu
RAG retrieves relevant text at query time, then generates an answer grounded on that context. Practi
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