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 - for direct API testing - Understanding of Perplexity's search-augmented generation model Diagnostic Tools Layer-by-Layer Test Inconsistent Citation Investigation Latency Profiling Recency Filter Validation Support Escalation Template Err…