All versions · Version range: v0.23.0

In vLLM v0.23.0, `vllm:external_prefix_cache_hits` is registered as a Prometheus counter.

MetricvLLM v0.23.0confidence: highverified Sep 29verified-code

Metric

external_prefix_cache_hits

Applies when

PrometheusStatLogger metrics publisherV1 metrics

Evidence

vLLM v0.23.0 v1 metrics loggers.py(vllm/v1/metrics/loggers.py:578-585)

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578:         counter_connector_prefix_cache_hits = self._counter_cls(
579:             name="vllm:external_prefix_cache_hits",
580:             documentation=(
581:                 "External prefix cache hits from KV connector "
582:                 "cross-instance cache sharing, in terms of number of cached tokens."
583:             ),
584:             labelnames=labelnames,
585:         )

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Does not establish

the metric's unit of measure
what the metric measures semantically
a healthy or expected value range

Guards

vllm_version = v0.23.0
metric_name = vllm:external_prefix_cache_hits

Freshness

Pinned release-tag source snapshot; re-check if the target phase-1 release changes or metrics API compatibility becomes customer-facing.