The scrape has never worked: lastError is "server returned HTTP status 501 Not
Implemented" on http://host.containers.internal:7771/metrics, and the oldest
retained sample of up{job="frank-zealot"} (2026-10-11) is already 0 -- the target
has been red across four payload generations while /health answered 200 the whole
time, keeping the critical LlmEndpointDown alert permanently active. llama.cpp
gates /metrics behind --metrics; halogen serves it natively, which is why the
asymmetry looked like a 3090-only problem.
METRICS=1 in the shipped env, --metrics reaches the argv through EXTRA_ARGS, and
the seam asserts both directions (default ships the flag, METRICS=0 strips it).
Diagnosed via /api/v1/targets lastError rather than the alert list, which is also
the lesson: Alertmanager here has no persistence, so a reboot re-stamps startsAt
and a weeks-old fault looks fresh.
- env: Bonsai2 payload pair, CACHE_TYPE_K/V=q8_0 (f16 OOMs at 2x200,704:
34 KiB vs 64 KiB/token over the 16 full-attention layers), measured boot
ledger 22,664 used / 1,461 free incl. the 873 MiB mmproj that lands AFTER
the engine fit check, q4_0 fallback rung, CRACK one-line MODEL_FILE swap
- deployer: runtime/model/mmproj gates re-keyed to the PrismML vendor build
(the only loader for GGML tensor type 142 + prism.hadamard.* metadata)
- seam: payload trio pinned; KV argv assertions now derived from CACHE_TYPE_*
in the env file — the wrong-var-name f16 fallback that produced the first
failed trial window can no longer pass silently
The 2026-10-09 wire aliases become the service names everywhere:
systemd units, serve scripts, env files and FRANK_* variables,
deploy-plan/deploy-remote service keys, container names, Prometheus
job names + alert rules, Grafana dashboard queries, bats seams,
runbook filenames, homepage/AGENTS lore, and historical prose.
Rollback tags renamed in lockstep. Residue in the tree: zero.
Retired frank-medium/small/npu names are history and stay.
Known casualty: scripts/patches/*.patch context lines were rewritten;
those retired-era vLLM-fork patches no longer apply byte-exact.
Frank