{ "uid": "llm-fleet", "title": "LLM fleet \u2014 capacity and reuse", "description": "The signals that explain the LLM endpoints under load. One metric namespace: llamacpp:* across all three endpoints — frank-zealot (Dankclaw, RTX 3090), frank-dragoon (Dankclaw, gfx1151 iGPU) and frank-archon (Dankserver, 2x R9700, llama.cpp again since the 2026-09-26 swap back from Lucebox DS4.1). The endpoint picker selects between them. See serverAppConfigs-docs/Infrastructure/Observability.md for the namespace split and the addressability rules.", "tags": [ "llm", "capacity" ], "timezone": "browser", "schemaVersion": 39, "version": 2, "refresh": "30s", "time": { "from": "now-6h", "to": "now" }, "templating": { "list": [ { "name": "job", "label": "endpoint", "type": "query", "datasource": { "type": "prometheus", "uid": "prometheus" }, "query": { "query": "label_values({__name__=~\"llamacpp:.*\"}, job)", "refId": "A" }, "includeAll": true, "multi": true, "current": { "text": "All", "value": "$__all" } } ] }, "panels": [ { "id": 1, "type": "timeseries", "title": "Prefix cache reuse rate", "description": "rate(hits)/rate(queries) in tokens. The llama.cpp prompt counter EXCLUDES cached tokens (its own HELP line), so this divides by cached + prompt. High means pinned conversations are served from cache: measured 2026-09-20, an identical 13,021-token prompt went 2.30 s cold to 0.68 s warm with 9,888 tokens (76 %) reused.", "gridPos": { "h": 8, "w": 12, "x": 0, "y": 0 }, "datasource": { "type": "prometheus", "uid": "prometheus" }, "fieldConfig": { "defaults": { "unit": "percentunit", "min": 0, "max": 1, "custom": { "fillOpacity": 10, "lineWidth": 1 } }, "overrides": [] }, "targets": [ { "expr": "rate(llamacpp:prompt_tokens_cached_total{job=~\"$job\"}[5m]) / clamp_min(rate(llamacpp:prompt_tokens_cached_total{job=~\"$job\"}[5m]) + rate(llamacpp:prompt_tokens_total{job=~\"$job\"}[5m]), 0.001)", "legendFormat": "{{job}} reuse (llama.cpp)", "refId": "A" } ] }, { "id": 2, "type": "timeseries", "title": "Speculative decoding (acceptance)", "description": "The one failure no client can see: the drafter silently stops and the endpoint keeps answering at autoregressive speed. Accepted tokens per draft step, and the mean accepted length (1 + accepted/drafts, the recording rule job:llm_spec_accept_length:rate5m) \u2014 1.0 means the draft round is pure overhead.", "gridPos": { "h": 8, "w": 12, "x": 12, "y": 0 }, "datasource": { "type": "prometheus", "uid": "prometheus" }, "targets": [ { "expr": "rate(llamacpp:spec_decode_num_accepted_tokens_total{job=~\"$job\"}[5m]) / clamp_min(rate(llamacpp:spec_decode_num_drafts_total{job=~\"$job\"}[5m]), 0.001)", "legendFormat": "{{job}} accepted per draft step", "refId": "A" }, { "expr": "job:llm_spec_accept_length:rate5m{job=~\"$job\"}", "legendFormat": "{{job}} mean accepted length", "refId": "B" }, { "expr": "rate(llamacpp:spec_decode_num_draft_tokens_total{job=~\"$job\"}[5m])", "legendFormat": "{{job}} draft tokens/s", "refId": "C" } ] }, { "id": 3, "type": "timeseries", "title": "Requests waiting (queue depth)", "description": "llama.cpp: anything above zero means the engine is serialising (with --parallel 1 a second concurrent request always shows up here). All three endpoints are llama.cpp since the 2026-09-26 frank-archon swap.", "gridPos": { "h": 8, "w": 12, "x": 0, "y": 8 }, "datasource": { "type": "prometheus", "uid": "prometheus" }, "targets": [ { "expr": "llamacpp:requests_deferred{job=~\"$job\"}", "legendFormat": "{{job}} deferred", "refId": "A" }, { "expr": "llamacpp:requests_processing{job=~\"$job\"}", "legendFormat": "{{job}} processing", "refId": "B" } ] }, { "id": 4, "type": "timeseries", "title": "Decode and prefill throughput", "description": "llamacpp:predicted_tokens_seconds is decode, llamacpp:prompt_tokens_seconds is prompt. The series carry the job label of their scrape, so the endpoint picker selects between the endpoints.", "gridPos": { "h": 8, "w": 12, "x": 0, "y": 16 }, "datasource": { "type": "prometheus", "uid": "prometheus" }, "targets": [ { "expr": "llamacpp:predicted_tokens_seconds{job=~\"$job\"}", "legendFormat": "{{job}} decode tok/s (llama.cpp)", "refId": "A" }, { "expr": "llamacpp:prompt_tokens_seconds{job=~\"$job\"}", "legendFormat": "{{job}} prefill tok/s (llama.cpp)", "refId": "B" } ] }, { "id": 5, "type": "timeseries", "title": "Decode steps and batch size", "description": "Per-step counters: steps per second and the busy-slot count per step (the effective batch). With frank-archon's --parallel 1 the slot count stays at 0 or 1 and says nothing about the card; with frank-zealot's 4 slots it tracks the agent-fleet burst shape.", "gridPos": { "h": 8, "w": 12, "x": 12, "y": 16 }, "datasource": { "type": "prometheus", "uid": "prometheus" }, "targets": [ { "expr": "rate(llamacpp:n_decode_total{job=~\"$job\"}[5m])", "legendFormat": "{{job}} decode steps/s", "refId": "A" }, { "expr": "llamacpp:n_busy_slots_per_decode{job=~\"$job\"}", "legendFormat": "{{job}} sequences per decode step", "refId": "B" } ] }, { "id": 6, "type": "timeseries", "title": "Firing fleet alerts", "description": "The LLM-fleet rules from shared/prometheus/rules/llm-fleet.yml. A firing alert is delivered to Signal: Prometheus -> Alertmanager (dankclaw quadlet) -> the host-side signal-relay user unit -> signal-cli, since 2026-09-17.", "gridPos": { "h": 8, "w": 12, "x": 0, "y": 24 }, "datasource": { "type": "prometheus", "uid": "prometheus" }, "targets": [ { "expr": "ALERTS{alertname=~\"Llm.*\", alertstate=\"firing\"}", "legendFormat": "{{alertname}} {{job}}", "refId": "A" } ] } ] }