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Frank dc76dc5dc4 frank-medium: serve the whole 262144-token window, and repoint every signal to llama.cpp
Context: 262144 was measured before it was deployed -- 24.72 GB on GPU 0 and
29.14 GB on GPU 1 of 34.21 GB each, ~5 GB of headroom on the busier card, and a
140,069-token prompt prefilled through the single slot in 134 s to prove the
window is real. The 114688 wall was the vLLM predecessor's arithmetic, not this
runtime's.

Throughput, measured through the service: 1.0-1.4k tok/s prefill from 4k to
140k, 43.8 tok/s decode on a 512-token generation, 41-71 % DFlash2 acceptance,
and the prefix cache re-prefilling 4 of 998 tokens on a repeated prompt.

The signals move with the runtime, so the fleet's rules and dashboard are
re-cut rather than renamed: vllm: series do not exist any more, and two of the
old rules watched things llama.cpp does not export at all (KV-pool fill, p95
latency). Those are retired with the reason written down, and LlmSpecDecodeOff
takes one of the slots -- a lost drafter is the failure no client can see. The
observability seam now fails if any rule names a series the endpoint does not
export, which is what would have caught the stale vllm: expressions.

omp models.yml (outside the repo) is updated in the same pass: contextWindow
262144, and the full reasoning-effort map, because Qwen3.8's template answers
500 on 'high' -- verified against the live endpoint, low/medium/xhigh answer
200. Subagents run at high.
2026-09-16 15:29:40 -07:00

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{
"uid": "llm-fleet",
"title": "LLM fleet \u2014 capacity and reuse",
"description": "The signals that explain the LLM endpoints under load, from the 2026-09-16 capacity work. The panels read llama.cpp's own counters: speculative acceptance, queue depth, prefix-cache reuse, decode step rate and throughput. frank-medium (Dankserver, both R9700s, layer split) and frank-small (Dankclaw, RTX 3090) both export them; frank-large runs the halogen engine, which publishes /health, /cache and /v1/* and no metrics endpoint at all, so it cannot appear here. See serverAppConfigs-docs/LLM/frank-medium-llamacpp-dflash2.md for the numbers these panels are read against.",
"tags": [
"llm",
"frank-medium",
"capacity"
],
"timezone": "browser",
"schemaVersion": 39,
"version": 1,
"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__=~\"vllm:kv_cache_usage_perc|llamacpp:.*\"}, job)",
"refId": "A"
},
"includeAll": true,
"multi": true,
"current": {
"text": "All",
"value": "$__all"
}
}
]
},
"panels": [
{
"id": 1,
"type": "timeseries",
"title": "Speculative decoding (DFlash2 acceptance)",
"description": "How full each card's KV pool is. One card holds ~122,636 tokens; sustained high values with a cold prefix cache is the thrash this fleet measured.",
"gridPos": {
"h": 8,
"w": 12,
"x": 0,
"y": 0
},
"datasource": {
"type": "prometheus",
"uid": "prometheus"
},
"fieldConfig": {
"defaults": {
"unit": "percentunit",
"min": 0,
"max": 1,
"custom": {
"fillOpacity": 10,
"lineWidth": 1
}
},
"overrides": []
},
"targets": [
{
"refId": "A",
"expr": "rate(llamacpp:spec_decode_num_accepted_tokens_total{job=~\"$job\"}[5m]) / clamp_min(rate(llamacpp:spec_decode_num_drafts_total{job=~\"$job\"}[5m]), 0.001)",
"legendFormat": "{{job}} accepted per draft step"
},
{
"refId": "B",
"expr": "rate(llamacpp:spec_decode_num_draft_tokens_total{job=~\"$job\"}[5m])",
"legendFormat": "{{job}} draft tokens/s"
}
]
},
{
"id": 2,
"type": "timeseries",
"title": "Requests waiting (queue depth)",
"description": "Anything above zero means the engine is serialising: with MAXSEQS=4 the fifth concurrent request waits.",
"gridPos": {
"h": 8,
"w": 12,
"x": 12,
"y": 0
},
"datasource": {
"type": "prometheus",
"uid": "prometheus"
},
"fieldConfig": {
"defaults": {
"unit": "short",
"min": 0,
"custom": {
"fillOpacity": 10,
"lineWidth": 1
}
},
"overrides": []
},
"targets": [
{
"refId": "A",
"expr": "llamacpp:requests_deferred{job=~\"$job\"}",
"legendFormat": "{{job}} deferred"
},
{
"refId": "B",
"expr": "llamacpp:requests_processing{job=~\"$job\"}",
"legendFormat": "{{job}} processing"
}
]
},
{
"id": 3,
"type": "timeseries",
"title": "Prefix cache reuse rate",
"description": "rate(hits)/rate(queries). High means pinned conversations are being served from cache (measured: 22.3 s cold vs 1.4 s warm on a ~50k-token prefix). A collapse here with three concurrent large contexts is the capacity wall, not a routing failure.",
"gridPos": {
"h": 8,
"w": 12,
"x": 0,
"y": 8
},
"datasource": {
"type": "prometheus",
"uid": "prometheus"
},
"fieldConfig": {
"defaults": {
"unit": "percentunit",
"min": 0,
"max": 1,
"custom": {
"fillOpacity": 10,
"lineWidth": 1
}
},
"overrides": []
},
"targets": [
{
"refId": "A",
"expr": "rate(llamacpp:prompt_tokens_cached_total{job=~\"$job\"}[5m]) / clamp_min(rate(llamacpp:prompt_tokens_total{job=~\"$job\"}[5m]), 1)",
"legendFormat": "{{job}} reuse"
}
]
},
{
"id": 4,
"type": "timeseries",
"title": "Decode steps and batch size",
"description": "Wall-clock per request, prefill included \u2014 the number an agent-loop turn feels.",
"gridPos": {
"h": 8,
"w": 12,
"x": 12,
"y": 8
},
"datasource": {
"type": "prometheus",
"uid": "prometheus"
},
"fieldConfig": {
"defaults": {
"unit": "s",
"custom": {
"fillOpacity": 10,
"lineWidth": 1
}
},
"overrides": []
},
"targets": [
{
"refId": "A",
"expr": "rate(llamacpp:n_decode_total{job=~\"$job\"}[5m])",
"legendFormat": "{{job}} decode steps/s"
},
{
"refId": "B",
"expr": "llamacpp:n_busy_slots_per_decode{job=~\"$job\"}",
"legendFormat": "{{job}} sequences per decode step"
}
]
},
{
"id": 5,
"type": "timeseries",
"title": "Decode and prefill throughput",
"description": "vLLM generation tokens, plus llama.cpp's counters for frank-small: llamacpp:predicted_tokens_seconds is decode and llamacpp:prompt_tokens_seconds is prompt throughput. The llama.cpp series carry the job label of their scrape, so the endpoint picker selects between the runtimes.",
"gridPos": {
"h": 8,
"w": 12,
"x": 0,
"y": 16
},
"datasource": {
"type": "prometheus",
"uid": "prometheus"
},
"fieldConfig": {
"defaults": {
"unit": "tokens/sec",
"custom": {
"fillOpacity": 10,
"lineWidth": 1
}
},
"overrides": []
},
"targets": [
{
"refId": "C",
"expr": "llamacpp:predicted_tokens_seconds{job=~\"$job\"}",
"legendFormat": "{{job}} llama.cpp decode tok/s"
},
{
"refId": "D",
"expr": "llamacpp:prompt_tokens_seconds{job=~\"$job\"}",
"legendFormat": "{{job}} llama.cpp prefill tok/s"
}
]
},
{
"id": 6,
"type": "timeseries",
"title": "Alerts firing (ALERTS)",
"description": "Prometheus rules for the LLM fleet (shared/prometheus/rules/llm-fleet.yml): pool saturation, queueing, prefix-cache collapse, endpoint down, p95 latency. A firing alert appears here, on Prometheus' /alerts page, and nowhere else \u2014 this stack has no Alertmanager, so nothing is notified.",
"gridPos": {
"h": 8,
"w": 12,
"x": 12,
"y": 16
},
"datasource": {
"type": "prometheus",
"uid": "prometheus"
},
"fieldConfig": {
"defaults": {
"unit": "short",
"min": 0,
"custom": {
"fillOpacity": 10,
"lineWidth": 1
}
},
"overrides": []
},
"targets": [
{
"refId": "A",
"expr": "ALERTS{alertstate=\"firing\"}",
"legendFormat": "{{alertname}} {{job}}"
}
]
}
]
}