Adding knowlege always fails

[adamcooper1386]

I followed the quick-start guide. When i get to adding to the knowledge base, it always fails, regardless of the url when attempting to store the chunks. It closes the screen to fast for me to invesitgate what is going wrong. I don't think it is supa base, as I can see the archon_sources being populated. For example, i used the url from the quick-start and it failed to store the chunks. This is the metadata from supabase.

{
  "tags": [],
  "source_type": "url",
  "original_url": "https://ai.pydantic.dev/llms-full.txt",
  "auto_generated": false,
  "knowledge_type": "technical",
  "update_frequency": 0
}

But this doesn't track why it failed. Where can i look to resolve why it is failing to store the chunks?

[adamcooper1386]

I was able to get a screenshot of the failed state, but it doesn't add any new information. can anyone think of something I can try?

[coleam00]

Sorry you're running into this! What are the error logs you see in the Archon server container?

[adamcooper1386]

So, In my particular case, I just threw a new OpenAI key in without thinking about it, but the billing wasn't set up right so it was failing. Thanks for telling me where to look.

[adamcooper1386]

archon-server-logs.txt
Here is what i was able to pull out. Seems like it may be an OpenAI API key error.

[daxm]

I'm not using OpenAI. I'm trying to use Grok and each time I try to add to the Knowledge (via crawling a webpage). I get an error that pops up saying that my OpenAI key is invalid.

archon-ui | 🔄 [VITE PROXY] Forwarding: POST /api/knowledge-items/crawl to http://archon-server:8181/api/knowledge-items/crawl
archon-server | 2025-10-22 16:26:43 | src.server.api_routes.knowledge_api | INFO | 🔍 About to validate API key...
archon-server | 2025-10-22 16:26:43 | src.server.api_routes.knowledge_api | INFO | 🔑 Starting API key validation...
archon-server | 2025-10-22 16:26:43 | src.server.api_routes.knowledge_api | INFO | 🔑 Testing Openai API key with minimal embedding request...
archon-server | 2025-10-22 16:26:43 | search | INFO | Using embedding provider: 'openai' (from EMBEDDING_PROVIDER setting)
archon-server | 2025-10-22 16:26:43 | src.server.services.llm_provider_service | INFO | Creating LLM client for provider: openai
archon-server | 2025-10-22 16:26:43 | src.server.services.llm_provider_service | INFO | OpenAI client created successfully
archon-server | 2025-10-22 16:26:44 | openai._base_client | INFO | Retrying request to /embeddings in 0.404053 seconds
archon-server | 2025-10-22 16:26:45 | openai._base_client | INFO | Retrying request to /embeddings in 0.865986 seconds
archon-server | 2025-10-22 16:26:46 | search | ERROR | ⚠️ QUOTA EXHAUSTED at batch 0! Processed 0 texts successfully.
archon-server | Traceback (most recent call last):
archon-server | File "/app/src/server/services/embeddings/embedding_service.py", line 411, in create_embeddings_batch
archon-server | embeddings = await adapter.create_embeddings(
archon-server | ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
archon-server | File "/app/src/server/services/embeddings/embedding_service.py", line 103, in create_embeddings
archon-server | response = await self._client.embeddings.create(**request_args)
archon-server | ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
archon-server | File "/venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/openai/resources/embeddings.py", line 243, in create
archon-server | return await self._post(
archon-server | ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
archon-server | File "/venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/openai/_base_client.py", line 1767, in post
archon-server | return await self.request(cast_to, opts, stream=stream, stream_cls=stream_cls)
archon-server | ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
archon-server | File "/venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/openai/_base_client.py", line 1461, in request
archon-server | return await self._request(
archon-server | ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
archon-server | File "/venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/openai/_base_client.py", line 1547, in _request
archon-server | return await self._retry_request(
archon-server | ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
archon-server | File "/venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/openai/_base_client.py", line 1594, in _retry_request
archon-server | return await self._request(
archon-server | ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
archon-server | File "/venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/openai/_base_client.py", line 1547, in _request
archon-server | return await self._retry_request(
archon-server | ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
archon-server | File "/venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/openai/_base_client.py", line 1594, in _retry_request
archon-server | return await self._request(
archon-server | ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
archon-server | File "/venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/openai/_base_client.py", line 1562, in _request
archon-server | raise self._make_status_error_from_response(err.response) from None
archon-server | openai.RateLimitError: Error code: 429 - {'error': {'message': 'You exceeded your current quota, please check your plan and billing details. For more information on this error, read the docs: https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/error-codes/api-errors.', 'type': 'insufficient_quota', 'param': None, 'code': 'insufficient_quota'}}
archon-server | 2025-10-22 16:26:46 | src.server.api_routes.knowledge_api | ERROR | ❌ Openai API key validation failed: OpenAI quota exhausted: OpenAI quota exhausted
archon-server | Traceback (most recent call last):
archon-server | File "/app/src/server/api_routes/knowledge_api.py", line 91, in _validate_provider_api_key
archon-server | test_result = await create_embedding(text="test", provider=provider)
archon-server | ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
archon-server | File "/app/src/server/services/embeddings/embedding_service.py", line 261, in create_embedding
archon-server | raise EmbeddingQuotaExhaustedError(
archon-server | src.server.services.embeddings.embedding_exceptions.EmbeddingQuotaExhaustedError: OpenAI quota exhausted: OpenAI quota exhausted
archon-server | 2025-10-22 16:26:46 | src.server.api_routes.knowledge_api | ERROR | 🚨 Re-raising HTTPException from validation
archon-ui | 🔄 [VITE PROXY] Forwarding: GET /api/health to http://archon-server:8181/api/health
archon-ui | 🔄 [VITE PROXY] Forwarding: GET /api/health to http://archon-server:8181/api/health
archon-ui | 🔄 [VITE PROXY] Forwarding: GET /api/progress/ to http://archon-server:8181/api/progress/
archon-server | 16:26:51.425 Listing active operations
archon-server | 16:26:51.426 Active operations listed | count=0
archon-ui | 🔄 [VITE PROXY] Forwarding: GET /api/progress/ to http://archon-server:8181/api/progress/
archon-server | 16:26:56.401 Listing active operations
archon-server | 16:26:56.402 Active operations listed | count=0
archon-ui | 🔄 [VITE PROXY] Forwarding: POST /api/credentials/status-check to http://archon-server:8181/api/credentials/status-check
archon-server | 16:27:00.438 Checking status for credentials: [Scrubbed due to 'API_KEY']
archon-server | 16:27:00.472 Credential status check completed | checked=5 | found=2
archon-ui | 🔄 [VITE PROXY] Forwarding: GET /api/health to http://archon-server:8181/api/health
archon-ui | 🔄 [VITE PROXY] Forwarding: GET /api/health to http://archon-server:8181/api/health
archon-ui | 🔄 [VITE PROXY] Forwarding: GET /api/progress/ to http://archon-server:8181/api/progress/
archon-server | 16:27:01.563 Listing active operations
archon-server | 16:27:01.564 Active operations listed | count=0
archon-ui | 🔄 [VITE PROXY] Forwarding: GET /api/health to http://archon-server:8181/api/health
archon-ui | 🔄 [VITE PROXY] Forwarding: GET /api/progress/ to http://archon-server:8181/api/progress/
archon-server | 16:27:06.721 Listing active operations
archon-server | 16:27:06.722 Active operations listed | count=0
archon-ui | 🔄 [VITE PROXY] Forwarding: GET /api/progress/ to http://archon-server:8181/api/progress/

[daxm]

I was able to "solve" this issue by not only creating an OpenAI API key but also providing them billing CC number. :-( I'd prefer not to need to have to use OpenAI.