Component Guides

Welcome to the LlamaIndex component guides! This section provides detailed documentation for all the core modules and components of the LlamaIndex framework.

Core Components

Models

• Introduction to Models - Overview of model components
• LLMs - Language models for text generation and reasoning
• Embeddings - Convert text to vector representations
• Multi Modal - Work with images, audio, and other non-text data

Prompts

• Introduction to Prompts - Overview of prompt engineering
• Usage Patterns - Learn how to effectively use prompts

Loading

• Introduction to Loading - Overview of data loading capabilities
• Documents and Nodes - Core data structures
• SimpleDirectoryReader - Easy document loading
• Data Connectors - Connect to external data sources
• Node Parsers / Text Splitters - Split documents into chunks
• Ingestion Pipeline - End-to-end document processing

Indexing

• Introduction to Indexing - Overview of indexing approaches
• Index Guide - Comprehensive guide to indices
• Vector Store Index - Semantic search with vectors
• Property Graph Index - Graph-based indexing

Storing

• Introduction to Storing - Overview of storage components
• Vector Stores - Store embeddings for retrieval
• Document Stores - Persist document collections
• Index Stores - Store index metadata

Querying

• Introduction to Querying - Overview of query components
• Query Engines - Process and answer queries
• Chat Engines - Build conversational interfaces
• Retrieval - Retrieve relevant context
• Response Synthesis - Generate coherent answers

Advanced Components

Agents

• Introduction to Agents - Overview of agent capabilities
• Memory - Add conversational memory to agents
• Tools - Extend capabilities with external tools

Workflows

• Introduction to Workflows - Build complex, multi-step AI workflows

Evaluation

• Introduction to Evaluation - Overview of evaluation frameworks
• Usage Patterns - Test and improve your applications
• LlamaDatasets - Standardized evaluation datasets

Observability

• Introduction to Observability - Overview of monitoring capabilities
• Instrumentation - Monitor and debug your applications

Settings

• Settings Configuration - Configure global LlamaIndex settings