How to Diagnose RAG Retrieval Failures: Step-by-Step Debugging

Diagnose RAG retrieval failures by isolating vector embedding mismatch, chunk boundary fragmentation, index stale state, and query term misalignment using step-by-step diagnostic scoring.

Your RAG pipeline produces inaccurate or hallucinated answers because the retrieval step failed to fetch the correct source documents, despite the information existing in the vector database.