📅 2025-05-07 — Session: Troubleshooting and Fixing ChromaDB Embedding Issues
🕒 00:00–00:35
🏷️ Labels: Chromadb, Debugging, Embedding, Troubleshooting
📂 Project: Dev
⭐ Priority: MEDIUM
Session Goal
The session aimed to troubleshoot and resolve issues related to ChromaDB, specifically focusing on empty query results and missing embeddings.
Key Activities
- Troubleshooting Chroma Query Results: Investigated potential causes for receiving empty results from Chroma queries and provided solutions to ensure documents and embeddings are correctly configured.
- Diagnosis of Empty Chroma Database: Diagnosed reasons for the absence of stored documents in the Chroma database and outlined steps to resolve the issue.
- Fixing Chroma Pitfalls: Provided a step-by-step guide to troubleshoot and fix issues with Chroma’s database when no embedding function is attached.
- Debugging Memory Embedding Issues: Debugged the absence of MemoryNotes in the ChromaDB collection, including checks for file contents and the embedding loop.
- ChromaDB Recovery Guide: Detailed potential causes for an empty embedding log and provided recovery steps to restore and inspect stored documents.
Achievements
- Identified and outlined multiple potential causes and solutions for empty Chroma query results and database issues.
- Developed a comprehensive troubleshooting and recovery guide for ChromaDB embedding issues.
Pending Tasks
- Implement the outlined recovery steps to ensure all documents and embeddings are correctly stored and retrievable in ChromaDB.