vLLM v0.23.0 · Version scoped

In vLLM v0.23.0, `vllm:external_prefix_cache_queries` is registered with the label names `model_name`, engine.

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

Metric

external_prefix_cache_queries

Applies when

PrometheusStatLogger metrics publisherV1 metrics

Evidence

vLLM v0.23.0 v1 metrics loggers.py(vllm/v1/metrics/loggers.py:566-573)

definesprimarysource_codecode_introspection

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566:         counter_connector_prefix_cache_queries = self._counter_cls(
567:             name="vllm:external_prefix_cache_queries",
568:             documentation=(
569:                 "External prefix cache queries from KV connector "
570:                 "cross-instance cache sharing, in terms of number of queried tokens."
571:             ),
572:             labelnames=labelnames,
573:         )

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Does not establish

the set of values any of these labels takes at runtime
label cardinality in a deployment

Guards

vllm_version = v0.23.0
metric_name = vllm:external_prefix_cache_queries

Freshness

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