Fix Azure AI Search custom skill timeouts that silently drop documents from RAG indexes, causing missing data, indexing failures, and inaccurate retrieval results.
Pipeline Fix Azure AI Search Custom Skills RAG Silent Data Loss The "Missing Data" RAG Pipeline Bug: Fixing the 30-Second Timeout in Azure AI Search Custom Skills Your RAG app confidently tells a user it has no information on a document you personally uploaded last week. The indexer says Success . The blob is right there in storage. What actually happened is that a custom skill blew a timeout, the indexer downgraded the failure to a warning, and the document was silently dropped from the index — and it will keep happening on every run until you find it. The exact error this guide resolves Could not execute skill because it did not execute within the time limit '00:00:30'. This is likely transient. Please try again later. For custom skills, consider increasing the 'timeout' parameter on your skill in the skillset. # It appears as a WARNING — not an error — in the indexer execution result: GET /indexers/my-indexer/status?api-version=2024-07-01 { "lastR...