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RAG observability in 2 lines of code with Llama Index & Langfuse

clemra on March 18, 2024

Why you need observability for RAG There are so many different ways to make RAG work for a use case. What vector store to use? What retr...
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Matija Sosic

A very nice overview and intro to Langfuse, thanks for sharing!

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Maximilian Deichmann

Really happy to have this feature out of the door. Looking forward to merge this to the new Llamaindex observation implementation: docs.llamaindex.ai/en/stable/modul...

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PSBigBig

You can’t fix what you can’t see — but seeing isn’t enough.

Langfuse does a solid job tracking user ↔ LLM interactions, sure.

But if you’re trying to debug a semantic breakdown between retrieval and generation,

you’ll need a new kind of observability — one that catches things like:

  • Memory overwriting between chunks
  • Source mismatches due to meaning drift
  • Illogical grounding loops between retrieved facts
  • Retrieval corruption that propagates through prompt logic

These don’t show up as errors. They show up as “the answer looked fine, but wasn’t actually right.”

That’s why I open-sourced a semantic engine designed to trace the logic pathways inside RAG flows.

It’s not just observability — it’s diagnosis and semantic control.

Instead of watching your app fail and logging it, you can design it not to fail.

Reference:

  • github dot com/onestardao/WFGY
  • github dot com/onestardao/WFGY/discussions/10
  • github dot com/onestardao/WFGY/tree/main/ProblemMap/README.md
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Marc Klingen • Edited

thanks to everyone who contributed to this

questions -> dm on twitter: x.com/marcklingen