diff --git a/examples/src/indexes/vector_stores/chroma/fromTexts.ts b/examples/src/indexes/vector_stores/chroma/fromTexts.ts
index 029f0e7186d0..5db2707f54bb 100644
--- a/examples/src/indexes/vector_stores/chroma/fromTexts.ts
+++ b/examples/src/indexes/vector_stores/chroma/fromTexts.ts
@@ -34,3 +34,18 @@ console.log(response);
   }
 ]
 */
+
+// You can also filter by metadata
+const filteredResponse = await vectorStore.similaritySearch("scared", 2, {
+  id: 1,
+});
+
+console.log(filteredResponse);
+/*
+[
+  Document {
+    pageContent: 'Achilles: Yiikes! What is that?',
+    metadata: { id: 1 }
+  }
+]
+*/
diff --git a/langchain/package.json b/langchain/package.json
index 71af92601843..5bef5d37b373 100644
--- a/langchain/package.json
+++ b/langchain/package.json
@@ -377,7 +377,7 @@
     "apify-client": "^2.7.1",
     "axios": "^0.26.0",
     "cheerio": "^1.0.0-rc.12",
-    "chromadb": "^1.4.0",
+    "chromadb": "^1.4.2",
     "cohere-ai": "^5.0.2",
     "d3-dsv": "^2.0.0",
     "dotenv": "^16.0.3",
@@ -431,7 +431,7 @@
     "apify-client": "^2.7.1",
     "axios": "*",
     "cheerio": "^1.0.0-rc.12",
-    "chromadb": "^1.4.0",
+    "chromadb": "^1.4.2",
     "cohere-ai": "^5.0.2",
     "d3-dsv": "^2.0.0",
     "epub2": "^3.0.1",
diff --git a/langchain/src/vectorstores/chroma.ts b/langchain/src/vectorstores/chroma.ts
index 7ecf08a54179..8d89b6dbd108 100644
--- a/langchain/src/vectorstores/chroma.ts
+++ b/langchain/src/vectorstores/chroma.ts
@@ -10,14 +10,18 @@ export type ChromaLibArgs =
       url?: string;
       numDimensions?: number;
       collectionName?: string;
+      filter?: object;
     }
   | {
       index?: ChromaClientT;
       numDimensions?: number;
       collectionName?: string;
+      filter?: object;
     };
 
 export class Chroma extends VectorStore {
+  declare FilterType: object;
+
   index?: ChromaClientT;
 
   collection?: Collection;
@@ -28,6 +32,8 @@ export class Chroma extends VectorStore {
 
   url: string;
 
+  filter?: object;
+
   constructor(embeddings: Embeddings, args: ChromaLibArgs) {
     super(embeddings, args);
     this.numDimensions = args.numDimensions;
@@ -38,6 +44,8 @@ export class Chroma extends VectorStore {
     } else if ("url" in args) {
       this.url = args.url || "http://localhost:8000";
     }
+
+    this.filter = args.filter;
   }
 
   async addDocuments(documents: Document[]): Promise<void> {
@@ -52,11 +60,15 @@ export class Chroma extends VectorStore {
     if (!this.collection) {
       if (!this.index) {
         const { ChromaClient } = await Chroma.imports();
-        this.index = new ChromaClient(this.url);
+        this.index = new ChromaClient({ path: this.url });
+      }
+      try {
+        this.collection = await this.index.getOrCreateCollection({
+          name: this.collectionName,
+        });
+      } catch (err) {
+        throw new Error(`Chroma getOrCreateCollection error: ${err}`);
       }
-      this.collection = await this.index.getOrCreateCollection(
-        this.collectionName
-      );
     }
 
     return this.collection;
@@ -80,22 +92,35 @@ export class Chroma extends VectorStore {
 
     const collection = await this.ensureCollection();
     const docstoreSize = await collection.count();
-    await collection.add(
-      Array.from({ length: vectors.length }, (_, i) =>
+    await collection.add({
+      ids: Array.from({ length: vectors.length }, (_, i) =>
         (docstoreSize + i).toString()
       ),
-      vectors,
-      documents.map(({ metadata }) => metadata),
-      documents.map(({ pageContent }) => pageContent)
-    );
+      embeddings: vectors,
+      metadatas: documents.map(({ metadata }) => metadata),
+      documents: documents.map(({ pageContent }) => pageContent),
+    });
   }
 
-  async similaritySearchVectorWithScore(query: number[], k: number) {
+  async similaritySearchVectorWithScore(
+    query: number[],
+    k: number,
+    filter?: this["FilterType"]
+  ) {
+    if (filter && this.filter) {
+      throw new Error("cannot provide both `filter` and `this.filter`");
+    }
+    const _filter = filter ?? this.filter;
+
     const collection = await this.ensureCollection();
 
     // similaritySearchVectorWithScore supports one query vector at a time
     // chroma supports multiple query vectors at a time
-    const result = await collection.query(query, k);
+    const result = await collection.query({
+      query_embeddings: query,
+      n_results: k,
+      where: { ..._filter },
+    });
 
     const { ids, distances, documents, metadatas } = result;
     if (!ids || !distances || !documents || !metadatas) {
@@ -111,8 +136,8 @@ export class Chroma extends VectorStore {
     for (let i = 0; i < firstIds.length; i += 1) {
       results.push([
         new Document({
-          pageContent: firstDocuments[i],
-          metadata: firstMetadatas[i],
+          pageContent: firstDocuments?.[i] ?? "",
+          metadata: firstMetadatas?.[i] ?? {},
         }),
         firstDistances[i],
       ]);
diff --git a/langchain/src/vectorstores/tests/chroma.int.test.ts b/langchain/src/vectorstores/tests/chroma.int.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..5629c8e7b5b7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/langchain/src/vectorstores/tests/chroma.int.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+/* eslint-disable no-process-env */
+/* eslint-disable @typescript-eslint/no-non-null-assertion */
+import { beforeEach, describe, expect, test } from "@jest/globals";
+import { faker } from "@faker-js/faker";
+import * as uuid from "uuid";
+import { Document } from "../../document.js";
+import { Chroma } from "../chroma.js";
+import { OpenAIEmbeddings } from "../../embeddings/openai.js";
+
+describe("Chroma", () => {
+  let chromaStore: Chroma;
+
+  beforeEach(async () => {
+    const embeddings = new OpenAIEmbeddings();
+    chromaStore = new Chroma(embeddings, {
+      url: "http://localhost:8000",
+      collectionName: "test-collection",
+    });
+  });
+
+  test("auto-generated ids", async () => {
+    const pageContent = faker.lorem.sentence(5);
+
+    await chromaStore.addDocuments([{ pageContent, metadata: { foo: "bar" } }]);
+
+    const results = await chromaStore.similaritySearch(pageContent, 1);
+
+    expect(results).toEqual([
+      new Document({ metadata: { foo: "bar" }, pageContent }),
+    ]);
+  });
+
+  test("metadata filtering", async () => {
+    const pageContent = faker.lorem.sentence(5);
+    const id = uuid.v4();
+
+    await chromaStore.addDocuments([
+      { pageContent, metadata: { foo: "bar" } },
+      { pageContent, metadata: { foo: id } },
+      { pageContent, metadata: { foo: "qux" } },
+    ]);
+
+    // If the filter wasn't working, we'd get all 3 documents back
+    const results = await chromaStore.similaritySearch(pageContent, 3, {
+      foo: id,
+    });
+
+    expect(results).toEqual([
+      new Document({ metadata: { foo: id }, pageContent }),
+    ]);
+  });
+});
diff --git a/yarn.lock b/yarn.lock
index cdfebd81ad30..02df15b3b832 100644
--- a/yarn.lock
+++ b/yarn.lock
@@ -10615,6 +10615,13 @@ __metadata:
   languageName: node
   linkType: hard
 
+"chromadb@npm:^1.4.2":
+  version: 1.4.2
+  resolution: "chromadb@npm:1.4.2"
+  checksum: 6fe81e889ae3f6ac39c1a168bcabe12771b0a5271be503db47aa3f8e5c159e29e5eaa7387780fb08d8ef370a42ce58455de1f0622367cb62c4486dfb3b84c20f
+  languageName: node
+  linkType: hard
+
 "chrome-trace-event@npm:^1.0.2":
   version: 1.0.3
   resolution: "chrome-trace-event@npm:1.0.3"
@@ -18015,7 +18022,7 @@ __metadata:
     axios: ^0.26.0
     binary-extensions: ^2.2.0
     cheerio: ^1.0.0-rc.12
-    chromadb: ^1.4.0
+    chromadb: ^1.4.2
     cohere-ai: ^5.0.2
     d3-dsv: ^2.0.0
     dotenv: ^16.0.3
@@ -18081,7 +18088,7 @@ __metadata:
     apify-client: ^2.7.1
     axios: "*"
     cheerio: ^1.0.0-rc.12
-    chromadb: ^1.4.0
+    chromadb: ^1.4.2
     cohere-ai: ^5.0.2
     d3-dsv: ^2.0.0
     epub2: ^3.0.1