How to Maintain RAG Freshness in Production Your RAG system can look healthy while serving old answers. Source data changes, users keep querying, and the retrieval layer quietly drifts out of sync. By the time someone notices, trust is already damaged. Table of Contents How to Maintain RAG Freshness in Production RAG Freshness Key Takeaways Why RAG Indexes Go Stale and What That Breaks Delayed ingestion and disconnected sources Missing deletes, tombstones, and st...