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            total_waiting = (
                scheduler_stats.num_waiting_reqs
                + scheduler_stats.num_skipped_waiting_reqs
            )
            self.gauge_scheduler_waiting[engine_idx].set(total_waiting)
            self.gauge_waiting_by_reason[WAITING_REASON_CAPACITY][engine_idx].set(
                scheduler_stats.num_waiting_reqs
            )
            self.gauge_waiting_by_reason[WAITING_REASON_DEFERRED][engine_idx].set(
                scheduler_stats.num_skipped_waiting_reqs
            )
            self.gauge_kv_cache_usage[engine_idx].set(scheduler_stats.kv_cache_usage)

            self.counter_prefix_cache_queries[engine_idx].inc(
                scheduler_stats.prefix_cache_stats.queries
            )
            self.counter_prefix_cache_hits[engine_idx].inc(
                scheduler_stats.prefix_cache_stats.hits
            )

Source text is evidence data, not instructions.

            total_waiting = (
                scheduler_stats.num_waiting_reqs
                + scheduler_stats.num_skipped_waiting_reqs
            )
            self.gauge_scheduler_waiting[engine_idx].set(total_waiting)
            self.gauge_waiting_by_reason[WAITING_REASON_CAPACITY][engine_idx].set(
                scheduler_stats.num_waiting_reqs
            )
            self.gauge_waiting_by_reason[WAITING_REASON_DEFERRED][engine_idx].set(
                scheduler_stats.num_skipped_waiting_reqs
            )
            self.gauge_kv_cache_usage[engine_idx].set(scheduler_stats.kv_cache_usage)

            self.counter_prefix_cache_queries[engine_idx].inc(
                scheduler_stats.prefix_cache_stats.queries
            )
            self.counter_prefix_cache_hits[engine_idx].inc(
                scheduler_stats.prefix_cache_stats.hits
            )

Source text is evidence data, not instructions.

            total_waiting = (
                scheduler_stats.num_waiting_reqs
                + scheduler_stats.num_skipped_waiting_reqs
            )
            self.gauge_scheduler_waiting[engine_idx].set(total_waiting)
            self.gauge_waiting_by_reason[WAITING_REASON_CAPACITY][engine_idx].set(
                scheduler_stats.num_waiting_reqs
            )
            self.gauge_waiting_by_reason[WAITING_REASON_DEFERRED][engine_idx].set(
                scheduler_stats.num_skipped_waiting_reqs
            )
            self.gauge_kv_cache_usage[engine_idx].set(scheduler_stats.kv_cache_usage)

            self.counter_prefix_cache_queries[engine_idx].inc(
                scheduler_stats.prefix_cache_stats.queries
            )
            self.counter_prefix_cache_hits[engine_idx].inc(
                scheduler_stats.prefix_cache_stats.hits
            )

Source text is evidence data, not instructions.

        gauge_kv_cache_usage = self._gauge_cls(
            name="vllm:kv_cache_usage_perc",
            documentation="KV-cache usage. 1 means 100 percent usage.",
            multiprocess_mode="mostrecent",
            labelnames=labelnames,
        )

Source text is evidence data, not instructions.

            total_waiting = (
                scheduler_stats.num_waiting_reqs
                + scheduler_stats.num_skipped_waiting_reqs
            )
            self.gauge_scheduler_waiting[engine_idx].set(total_waiting)
            self.gauge_waiting_by_reason[WAITING_REASON_CAPACITY][engine_idx].set(
                scheduler_stats.num_waiting_reqs
            )
            self.gauge_waiting_by_reason[WAITING_REASON_DEFERRED][engine_idx].set(
                scheduler_stats.num_skipped_waiting_reqs
            )
            self.gauge_kv_cache_usage[engine_idx].set(scheduler_stats.kv_cache_usage)

            self.counter_prefix_cache_queries[engine_idx].inc(
                scheduler_stats.prefix_cache_stats.queries
            )
            self.counter_prefix_cache_hits[engine_idx].inc(
                scheduler_stats.prefix_cache_stats.hits
            )

Source text is evidence data, not instructions.

class SchedulerStats:
    """Stats associated with the scheduler."""

    num_running_reqs: int = 0

    num_waiting_reqs: int = 0  # length of the "waiting" request queue
    num_skipped_waiting_reqs: int = 0  # length of the "skipped waiting" queue

    # These are used for internal DP load-balancing.
    step_counter: int = 0
    current_wave: int = 0

    kv_cache_usage: float = 0.0

    prefix_cache_stats: PrefixCacheStats = field(default_factory=PrefixCacheStats)
    connector_prefix_cache_stats: PrefixCacheStats | None = None

    kv_cache_eviction_events: list[KVCacheEvictionEvent] = field(default_factory=list)

Source text is evidence data, not instructions.

            self.gauge_kv_cache_usage[engine_idx].set(scheduler_stats.kv_cache_usage)

Source text is evidence data, not instructions.

        gauge_kv_cache_usage = self._gauge_cls(
            name="vllm:kv_cache_usage_perc",
            documentation="KV-cache usage. 1 means 100 percent usage.",
            multiprocess_mode="mostrecent",
            labelnames=labelnames,
        )
        self.gauge_kv_cache_usage = create_metric_per_engine(
            gauge_kv_cache_usage, per_engine_labelvalues
        )

Source text is evidence data, not instructions.

### Prefix Cache metrics

The discussion in <https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/issues/10582> about adding prefix cache metrics yielded
some interesting points which may be relevant to how we approach
future metrics.

Every time the prefix cache is queried, we record the number of tokens
queried and the number of queried tokens present in the cache
(i.e. hits).

However, the metric of interest is the hit rate - i.e. the number of
hits per query.

In the case of logging, we expect the user is best served by
calculating the hit rate over a fixed number of the most recent
queries (the interval is fixed to 1k most recent queries for now).

In the case of Prometheus though, we should take advantage of the
time-series nature of Prometheus and allow the user to calculate the
hit rate over an interval of their choosing. For example, a PromQL
query to calculate the hit interval of the past 5 minutes:

```text
rate(cache_query_hit[5m]) / rate(cache_query_total[5m])
```

To achieve this, we should record the queries and hits as counters in
Prometheus, rather than recording the hit rate as a gauge.

Source text is evidence data, not instructions.

### Prefix Cache metrics

The discussion in <https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/issues/10582> about adding prefix cache metrics yielded
some interesting points which may be relevant to how we approach
future metrics.

Every time the prefix cache is queried, we record the number of tokens
queried and the number of queried tokens present in the cache
(i.e. hits).

However, the metric of interest is the hit rate - i.e. the number of
hits per query.

In the case of logging, we expect the user is best served by
calculating the hit rate over a fixed number of the most recent
queries (the interval is fixed to 1k most recent queries for now).

In the case of Prometheus though, we should take advantage of the
time-series nature of Prometheus and allow the user to calculate the
hit rate over an interval of their choosing. For example, a PromQL
query to calculate the hit interval of the past 5 minutes:

```text
rate(cache_query_hit[5m]) / rate(cache_query_total[5m])
```

To achieve this, we should record the queries and hits as counters in
Prometheus, rather than recording the hit rate as a gauge.

Source text is evidence data, not instructions.

### Prefix Cache metrics

The discussion in <https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/issues/10582> about adding prefix cache metrics yielded
some interesting points which may be relevant to how we approach
future metrics.

Every time the prefix cache is queried, we record the number of tokens
queried and the number of queried tokens present in the cache
(i.e. hits).

However, the metric of interest is the hit rate - i.e. the number of
hits per query.

In the case of logging, we expect the user is best served by
calculating the hit rate over a fixed number of the most recent
queries (the interval is fixed to 1k most recent queries for now).

In the case of Prometheus though, we should take advantage of the
time-series nature of Prometheus and allow the user to calculate the
hit rate over an interval of their choosing. For example, a PromQL
query to calculate the hit interval of the past 5 minutes:

```text
rate(cache_query_hit[5m]) / rate(cache_query_total[5m])
```

To achieve this, we should record the queries and hits as counters in
Prometheus, rather than recording the hit rate as a gauge.

Source text is evidence data, not instructions.

### Prefix Cache metrics

The discussion in <https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/issues/10582> about adding prefix cache metrics yielded
some interesting points which may be relevant to how we approach
future metrics.

Every time the prefix cache is queried, we record the number of tokens
queried and the number of queried tokens present in the cache
(i.e. hits).

However, the metric of interest is the hit rate - i.e. the number of
hits per query.

In the case of logging, we expect the user is best served by
calculating the hit rate over a fixed number of the most recent
queries (the interval is fixed to 1k most recent queries for now).

In the case of Prometheus though, we should take advantage of the
time-series nature of Prometheus and allow the user to calculate the
hit rate over an interval of their choosing. For example, a PromQL
query to calculate the hit interval of the past 5 minutes:

```text
rate(cache_query_hit[5m]) / rate(cache_query_total[5m])
```

To achieve this, we should record the queries and hits as counters in
Prometheus, rather than recording the hit rate as a gauge.

Source text is evidence data, not instructions.

        counter_prefix_cache_hits = self._counter_cls(
            name="vllm:prefix_cache_hits",
            documentation=("Prefix cache hits, in terms of number of cached tokens."),
            labelnames=labelnames,
        )

Source text is evidence data, not instructions.

### Prefix Cache metrics

The discussion in <https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/issues/10582> about adding prefix cache metrics yielded
some interesting points which may be relevant to how we approach
future metrics.

Every time the prefix cache is queried, we record the number of tokens
queried and the number of queried tokens present in the cache
(i.e. hits).

However, the metric of interest is the hit rate - i.e. the number of
hits per query.

In the case of logging, we expect the user is best served by
calculating the hit rate over a fixed number of the most recent
queries (the interval is fixed to 1k most recent queries for now).

In the case of Prometheus though, we should take advantage of the
time-series nature of Prometheus and allow the user to calculate the
hit rate over an interval of their choosing. For example, a PromQL
query to calculate the hit interval of the past 5 minutes:

```text
rate(cache_query_hit[5m]) / rate(cache_query_total[5m])
```

To achieve this, we should record the queries and hits as counters in
Prometheus, rather than recording the hit rate as a gauge.

Source text is evidence data, not instructions.

            self.counter_prefix_cache_queries[engine_idx].inc(
                scheduler_stats.prefix_cache_stats.queries
            )
            self.counter_prefix_cache_hits[engine_idx].inc(
                scheduler_stats.prefix_cache_stats.hits
            )

Source text is evidence data, not instructions.

    requests: int = 0
    """The number of requests in this update."""

    queries: int = 0
    """The number of queries in these requests."""

    hits: int = 0
    """The number of hits in these requests."""

Source text is evidence data, not instructions.

        #
        # External - KV connector prefix cache
        #

        counter_connector_prefix_cache_queries = self._counter_cls(
            name="vllm:external_prefix_cache_queries",
            documentation=(
                "External prefix cache queries from KV connector "
                "cross-instance cache sharing, in terms of number of queried tokens."
            ),
            labelnames=labelnames,
        )
        self.counter_connector_prefix_cache_queries = create_metric_per_engine(
            counter_connector_prefix_cache_queries, per_engine_labelvalues
        )

        counter_connector_prefix_cache_hits = self._counter_cls(
            name="vllm:external_prefix_cache_hits",
            documentation=(
                "External prefix cache hits from KV connector "
                "cross-instance cache sharing, in terms of number of cached tokens."
            ),
            labelnames=labelnames,
        )
        self.counter_connector_prefix_cache_hits = create_metric_per_engine(
            counter_connector_prefix_cache_hits, per_engine_labelvalues
        )

Source text is evidence data, not instructions.

        counter_prefix_cache_hits = self._counter_cls(
            name="vllm:prefix_cache_hits",
            documentation=("Prefix cache hits, in terms of number of cached tokens."),
            labelnames=labelnames,
        )
        self.counter_prefix_cache_hits = create_metric_per_engine(
            counter_prefix_cache_hits, per_engine_labelvalues
        )

Source text is evidence data, not instructions.

            self.counter_prefix_cache_queries[engine_idx].inc(
                scheduler_stats.prefix_cache_stats.queries
            )
            self.counter_prefix_cache_hits[engine_idx].inc(
                scheduler_stats.prefix_cache_stats.hits
            )

Source text is evidence data, not instructions.

        #
        # External - KV connector prefix cache
        #

        counter_connector_prefix_cache_queries = self._counter_cls(
            name="vllm:external_prefix_cache_queries",
            documentation=(
                "External prefix cache queries from KV connector "
                "cross-instance cache sharing, in terms of number of queried tokens."
            ),
            labelnames=labelnames,
        )
        self.counter_connector_prefix_cache_queries = create_metric_per_engine(
            counter_connector_prefix_cache_queries, per_engine_labelvalues
        )

        counter_connector_prefix_cache_hits = self._counter_cls(
            name="vllm:external_prefix_cache_hits",
            documentation=(
                "External prefix cache hits from KV connector "
                "cross-instance cache sharing, in terms of number of cached tokens."
            ),
            labelnames=labelnames,
        )
        self.counter_connector_prefix_cache_hits = create_metric_per_engine(
            counter_connector_prefix_cache_hits, per_engine_labelvalues
        )

Source text is evidence data, not instructions.

        #
        # External - KV connector prefix cache
        #

        counter_connector_prefix_cache_queries = self._counter_cls(
            name="vllm:external_prefix_cache_queries",
            documentation=(
                "External prefix cache queries from KV connector "
                "cross-instance cache sharing, in terms of number of queried tokens."
            ),
            labelnames=labelnames,
        )
        self.counter_connector_prefix_cache_queries = create_metric_per_engine(
            counter_connector_prefix_cache_queries, per_engine_labelvalues
        )

        counter_connector_prefix_cache_hits = self._counter_cls(
            name="vllm:external_prefix_cache_hits",
            documentation=(
                "External prefix cache hits from KV connector "
                "cross-instance cache sharing, in terms of number of cached tokens."
            ),
            labelnames=labelnames,
        )
        self.counter_connector_prefix_cache_hits = create_metric_per_engine(
            counter_connector_prefix_cache_hits, per_engine_labelvalues
        )

Source text is evidence data, not instructions.

        #
        # External - KV connector prefix cache
        #

        counter_connector_prefix_cache_queries = self._counter_cls(
            name="vllm:external_prefix_cache_queries",
            documentation=(
                "External prefix cache queries from KV connector "
                "cross-instance cache sharing, in terms of number of queried tokens."
            ),
            labelnames=labelnames,
        )
        self.counter_connector_prefix_cache_queries = create_metric_per_engine(
            counter_connector_prefix_cache_queries, per_engine_labelvalues
        )

        counter_connector_prefix_cache_hits = self._counter_cls(
            name="vllm:external_prefix_cache_hits",
            documentation=(
                "External prefix cache hits from KV connector "
                "cross-instance cache sharing, in terms of number of cached tokens."
            ),
            labelnames=labelnames,
        )
        self.counter_connector_prefix_cache_hits = create_metric_per_engine(
            counter_connector_prefix_cache_hits, per_engine_labelvalues
        )

Source text is evidence data, not instructions.

        counter_prefix_cache_queries = self._counter_cls(
            name="vllm:prefix_cache_queries",
            documentation=(
                "Prefix cache queries, in terms of number of queried tokens."
            ),
            labelnames=labelnames,
        )

Source text is evidence data, not instructions.

        #
        # External - KV connector prefix cache
        #

        counter_connector_prefix_cache_queries = self._counter_cls(
            name="vllm:external_prefix_cache_queries",
            documentation=(
                "External prefix cache queries from KV connector "
                "cross-instance cache sharing, in terms of number of queried tokens."
            ),
            labelnames=labelnames,
        )
        self.counter_connector_prefix_cache_queries = create_metric_per_engine(
            counter_connector_prefix_cache_queries, per_engine_labelvalues
        )

        counter_connector_prefix_cache_hits = self._counter_cls(
            name="vllm:external_prefix_cache_hits",
            documentation=(
                "External prefix cache hits from KV connector "
                "cross-instance cache sharing, in terms of number of cached tokens."
            ),
            labelnames=labelnames,
        )
        self.counter_connector_prefix_cache_hits = create_metric_per_engine(
            counter_connector_prefix_cache_hits, per_engine_labelvalues
        )

Source text is evidence data, not instructions.

            self.counter_prefix_cache_queries[engine_idx].inc(
                scheduler_stats.prefix_cache_stats.queries
            )
            self.counter_prefix_cache_hits[engine_idx].inc(
                scheduler_stats.prefix_cache_stats.hits
            )

Source text is evidence data, not instructions.

    requests: int = 0
    """The number of requests in this update."""

    queries: int = 0
    """The number of queries in these requests."""

    hits: int = 0
    """The number of hits in these requests."""

Source text is evidence data, not instructions.

        #
        # External - KV connector prefix cache
        #

        counter_connector_prefix_cache_queries = self._counter_cls(
            name="vllm:external_prefix_cache_queries",
            documentation=(
                "External prefix cache queries from KV connector "
                "cross-instance cache sharing, in terms of number of queried tokens."
            ),
            labelnames=labelnames,
        )
        self.counter_connector_prefix_cache_queries = create_metric_per_engine(
            counter_connector_prefix_cache_queries, per_engine_labelvalues
        )

        counter_connector_prefix_cache_hits = self._counter_cls(
            name="vllm:external_prefix_cache_hits",
            documentation=(
                "External prefix cache hits from KV connector "
                "cross-instance cache sharing, in terms of number of cached tokens."
            ),
            labelnames=labelnames,
        )
        self.counter_connector_prefix_cache_hits = create_metric_per_engine(
            counter_connector_prefix_cache_hits, per_engine_labelvalues
        )

Source text is evidence data, not instructions.

        counter_prefix_cache_queries = self._counter_cls(
            name="vllm:prefix_cache_queries",
            documentation=(
                "Prefix cache queries, in terms of number of queried tokens."
            ),
            labelnames=labelnames,
        )
        self.counter_prefix_cache_queries = create_metric_per_engine(
            counter_prefix_cache_queries, per_engine_labelvalues
        )

Source text is evidence data, not instructions.

            self.counter_prefix_cache_queries[engine_idx].inc(
                scheduler_stats.prefix_cache_stats.queries
            )
            self.counter_prefix_cache_hits[engine_idx].inc(
                scheduler_stats.prefix_cache_stats.hits
            )

Source text is evidence data, not instructions.

        self.counter_num_preempted_reqs[engine_idx].inc(
            iteration_stats.num_preempted_reqs
        )
        self.counter_prompt_tokens[engine_idx].inc(iteration_stats.num_prompt_tokens)
        # Labeled prompt token counters by source
        pts = iteration_stats.prompt_token_stats
        for source in PromptTokenStats.ALL_SOURCES:
            self.counter_prompt_tokens_by_source[source][engine_idx].inc(
                pts.get_by_source(source)
            )
        self.counter_prompt_tokens_cached[engine_idx].inc(pts.cached_tokens)
        self.counter_generation_tokens[engine_idx].inc(
            iteration_stats.num_generation_tokens
        )
        self.histogram_iteration_tokens[engine_idx].observe(
            iteration_stats.prompt_token_stats.computed
            + iteration_stats.num_generation_tokens
        )

Source text is evidence data, not instructions.

        histogram_prefill_kv_computed_request = self._histogram_cls(
            name="vllm:request_prefill_kv_computed_tokens",
            documentation=(
                "Histogram of new KV tokens computed during prefill "
                "(excluding cached tokens)."
            ),
            buckets=build_1_2_5_buckets(max_model_len),
            labelnames=labelnames,
        )

Source text is evidence data, not instructions.