# qdrant-advisor

Fetches official troubleshooting guidance live from skills.qdrant.tech to diagnose vector search latency, memory spikes, and sharding issues.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 682 installs · ★ 264
- Author: qdrant
- License: Apache-2.0 · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/qdrant/skills/tree/HEAD/meta/qdrant-advisor/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-23
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/qdrant-advisor

## What it does

The skill prohibits an agent from diagnosing issues from raw memory. Qdrant releases new endpoints, telemetry, and default settings at a fast pace. Relying on model training data yields outdated advice. The agent creates targeted search queries against `skills.qdrant.tech` and loads current `SKILL.md` guides on demand.

Navigation follows a strict hierarchy. The agent starts at a top-level topic, descends through nested sub-skills, and hops across lateral links if symptoms overlap. Query latency might stem from optimizer lag rather than hardware limits. The resulting diagnosis includes verified endpoints, metric thresholds, and explicit warnings on what not to do.

A working internet connection to `skills.qdrant.tech` is mandatory. Without outbound network access, the agent cannot retrieve current branches and troubleshooting will stall.

## Requirements
- Works with: Grafana

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add qdrant/skills --skill qdrant-advisor -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/qdrant-advisor/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/qdrant-advisor/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add qdrant/skills --skill qdrant-advisor -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/qdrant-advisor/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add qdrant/skills --skill qdrant-advisor -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/qdrant-advisor/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install qdrant/skills qdrant-advisor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/qdrant-advisor/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add qdrant/skills --skill qdrant-advisor -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/qdrant/skills --path meta/qdrant-advisor
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/qdrant-advisor/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add qdrant/skills --skill qdrant-advisor -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/qdrant/skills/tree/HEAD/meta/qdrant-advisor/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- diagnose high memory growth and OOM crashes in vector nodes
- isolate search latency spikes after heavy vector ingestion
- plan cluster sharding and replication across multiple nodes
- validate configuration steps before updating embedding models

## Example prompts
- Our Qdrant node crashed with an OOM error after a bulk upload, how do I fix it?
- Search latency spiked after enabling hybrid search in Docker, check the optimizer metrics.
- Help me size sharding and replica count for a ten-node self-hosted cluster.

## Source text · SKILL.md · Apache-2.0

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---
name: qdrant-advisor
description: "Diagnose, troubleshoot, and advise on any Qdrant deployment by loading the latest official Qdrant skills live from skills.qdrant.tech. Use this whenever someone raises a Qdrant problem or question — slow or degraded search, high or growing memory / OOM crashes, optimizer stuck or slow, indexing slowness, scaling and sharding decisions (node count, QPS, latency, multitenancy, vertical vs horizontal), poor or irrelevant search results, hybrid search and reranking, embedding-model migration, version upgrades and compatibility, monitoring and observability (Prometheus, Grafana, health checks, /metrics, /telemetry), deployment choices (local, Docker, self-hosted, Qdrant Cloud, embedded), or client-SDK questions (Python, TypeScript, Rust, Go, .NET, Java). Trigger especially when the context is clearly a Qdrant cluster, collection, or vector-search deployment. Always prefer this skill over answering from memory: it pulls current, authoritative guidance and only the relevant context."
---

# Qdrant Troubleshooting & Advisory

## Core principle

Do not answer Qdrant questions from memory. Qdrant evolves quickly (new endpoints, metrics, defaults, and deployment patterns land often), and the authoritative, current guidance lives at `skills.qdrant.tech` as a hierarchy of agent skills. Your job is to **load the relevant skill context live, then ground your diagnosis in it** — loading only the branch that matches the problem, never the whole tree.

You are *consuming* these skills as context. You are **not** installing them and nothing needs to be installed.

## The knowledge source

- **Search**: `https://skills.qdrant.tech/search?query=your+query+here`
- The structure is **hierarchical**: top-level skill `SKILL.md` → sub-skill `SKILL.md` → linked documentation pages. Each level narrows scope. Traverse it depth-first, following only the branch(es) that match the symptom.

## Workflow

### 1. Frame the problem

Pull out the concrete details before fetching anything:
- The **symptom(s)** in the user's words (e.g. "memory keeps climbing", "queries got slow after a bulk upload", "results are irrelevant").
- The **deployment type** (local, Docker, self-hosted, Cloud, embedded) and **version**, if known.
- **What changed** recently (upgrade, new index, traffic spike, model swap).

Turn these into 1–3 short search phrases.

### 2. Find the right skill(s)

**Use Search (fastest path to the right skill).** Fetch `https://skills.qdrant.tech/search?query=<your query>`, substituting your phrase for `your+query+here` (encode spaces as `+` or `%20`). It returns the single most relevant top-level skill's `SKILL.md`. Run it more than once for multi-part problems (e.g. one search for the memory symptom, one for the scaling question).

### 3. Traverse the hierarchy (deep and lateral)
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