vllm/docs/usage/metrics.md
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[Docs] Generate full list of metrics in user docs (#30388)
Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-authored-by: Harry Mellor <19981378+hmellor@users.noreply.github.com>
2025-12-10 16:09:34 +00:00

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# Production Metrics
vLLM exposes a number of metrics that can be used to monitor the health of the
system. These metrics are exposed via the `/metrics` endpoint on the vLLM
OpenAI compatible API server.
You can start the server using Python, or using [Docker](../deployment/docker.md):
```bash
vllm serve unsloth/Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct
```
Then query the endpoint to get the latest metrics from the server:
??? console "Output"
```console
$ curl http://0.0.0.0:8000/metrics
# HELP vllm:iteration_tokens_total Histogram of number of tokens per engine_step.
# TYPE vllm:iteration_tokens_total histogram
vllm:iteration_tokens_total_sum{model_name="unsloth/Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct"} 0.0
vllm:iteration_tokens_total_bucket{le="1.0",model_name="unsloth/Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct"} 3.0
vllm:iteration_tokens_total_bucket{le="8.0",model_name="unsloth/Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct"} 3.0
vllm:iteration_tokens_total_bucket{le="16.0",model_name="unsloth/Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct"} 3.0
vllm:iteration_tokens_total_bucket{le="32.0",model_name="unsloth/Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct"} 3.0
vllm:iteration_tokens_total_bucket{le="64.0",model_name="unsloth/Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct"} 3.0
vllm:iteration_tokens_total_bucket{le="128.0",model_name="unsloth/Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct"} 3.0
vllm:iteration_tokens_total_bucket{le="256.0",model_name="unsloth/Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct"} 3.0
vllm:iteration_tokens_total_bucket{le="512.0",model_name="unsloth/Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct"} 3.0
...
```
The following metrics are exposed:
## General Metrics
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## Speculative Decoding Metrics
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## NIXL KV Connector Metrics
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## Deprecation Policy
Note: when metrics are deprecated in version `X.Y`, they are hidden in version `X.Y+1`
but can be re-enabled using the `--show-hidden-metrics-for-version=X.Y` escape hatch,
and are then removed in version `X.Y+2`.