Perplexity Advanced Troubleshooting

Overview

Deep debugging for Perplexity Sonar API issues that resist standard fixes. Common hard problems: inconsistent citations between identical queries, intermittent timeouts on sonar-pro, search results not matching recency filter, and response quality degradation.

Prerequisites

• Access to production logs and metrics
• curl for direct API testing
• Understanding of Perplexity's search-augmented generation model

Diagnostic Tools

Layer-by-Layer Test

#!/bin/bash
set -euo pipefail
echo "=== Perplexity Layer Diagnostics ==="