fix(ai): restore omniroute failover and alert on gateway failures - #4534
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llama.cpp splits contextSize across parallelSlots, so the tier served a 16384-token window and rejected every review-sized payload that reached it -- 24916- and 17613-token requests observed on 2026-08-17. It turned omniroute 503s into 400s rather than serving them. Widening it means more KV on the iGPU node, which is not worth spending on a last resort, so the chain goes back to one deep.
3.8.49 only ever sets the last-known-good-provider pin on success and never clears it on failure, so separate requests keep re-selecting a target that is already failing instead of failing over (upstream #10034). That is the exact shape of the 2026-08-17 outage: omniroute re-picked a quota-exhausted antigravity model on every attempt and 503'd rather than moving to one of the other candidates. The fix merged 2026-08-13 and no tagged release carries it -- main's image predates it by three hours. Source is public, so next is auditable despite being untagged; revisit once v3.8.50 ships.
Nothing watched this gateway. On 2026-08-17 omniroute's free tier went dry, its fallback turned out to point at a deployment scaled to 0, and the first symptom was PR review jobs failing roughly six hours later. Three rules on counters the sibling ServiceMonitor already scrapes: user-visible failures (critical), a fallback target that is itself broken, and a primary that stops recovering. Replayed against the incident, the two warnings fire at 21:00 and the critical at 21:30 -- half an hour of lead time before anything reached a caller. increase() over rate(): traffic is bursty and small enough that a per-second rate rounds to noise, and it rides out litellm's pod rolls.
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe change updates Omniroute to a digest-pinned ChangesLiteLLM failover operations
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Gateway failure alerts can remain suppressed for 5–10 minutes, delaying detection of outages and degraded fallback behavior; the alert durations should be corrected before this PR is merge-ready. Possibly related PRs
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@@ spec.template.spec.containers.app.image @@
# apps/v1/Deployment/ai/omniroute
! ± value change
- docker.io/diegosouzapw/omniroute:3.8.49@sha256:92c768c56e2de32c51a0621ef182835018b00b288c9bb235c5c5e4514658c1a1
+ docker.io/diegosouzapw/omniroute:next@sha256:2dd8dee4c5247c372af2ebbdfb98d72b4abacca77a07dd41aa6de6aa77e527cc
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@@ spec.routerSettings.fallbacks.0.omniroute @@
# litellm.home-operations.com/v1alpha1/LiteLLMProxy/ai/litellm
! - one list entry removed:
- - qwen35-2b
@@ spec.values.controllers.omniroute.containers.app.image.tag @@
# helm.toolkit.fluxcd.io/v2/HelmRelease/ai/omniroute
! ± value change
- 3.8.49@sha256:92c768c56e2de32c51a0621ef182835018b00b288c9bb235c5c5e4514658c1a1
+ next@sha256:2dd8dee4c5247c372af2ebbdfb98d72b4abacca77a07dd41aa6de6aa77e527cc
@@ (root level) @@
# monitoring.coreos.com/v1/PrometheusRule/ai/litellm-rules
! + one document added:
+ apiVersion: monitoring.coreos.com/v1
+ kind: PrometheusRule
+ metadata:
+ name: litellm-rules
+ namespace: ai
+ labels:
+ kustomize.toolkit.fluxcd.io/name: litellm
+ kustomize.toolkit.fluxcd.io/namespace: ai
+ spec:
+ groups:
+ - name: litellm.rules
+ rules:
+ - alert: LiteLLMRequestsFailing
+ annotations:
+ summary: "litellm is returning {{ $labels.exception_status }} for {{ $labels.requested_model }} — the fallback chain is not covering it"
+ expr: |
+ sum by (requested_model, exception_status) (
+ increase(litellm_proxy_failed_requests_metric_total[15m])
+ ) > 2
+ for: 10m
+ labels:
+ severity: critical
+ - alert: LiteLLMFallbackBackendDown
+ annotations:
+ summary: "qwen38-27b-vllm has no available replica — litellm's only fallback target is gone and hermes has no local model"
+ expr: |
+ kube_deployment_status_replicas_available{namespace="ai", deployment="qwen38-27b-vllm"} == 0
+ or
+ absent(kube_deployment_status_replicas_available{namespace="ai", deployment="qwen38-27b-vllm"})
+ for: 10m
+ labels:
+ severity: critical
+ - alert: LiteLLMFallbackTargetUnavailable
+ annotations:
+ summary: "Fallback {{ $labels.fallback_model }} for {{ $labels.requested_model }} is failing — the chain is shorter than it looks"
+ expr: |
+ sum by (requested_model, fallback_model) (
+ increase(litellm_deployment_failed_fallbacks_total[30m])
+ ) > 0
+ for: 5m
+ labels:
+ severity: warning
+ - alert: LiteLLMPrimaryDegraded
+ annotations:
+ summary: "{{ $labels.requested_model }} has leaned on fallback {{ $labels.fallback_model }} repeatedly — the primary is not recovering"
+ expr: |
+ sum by (requested_model, fallback_model) (
+ increase(litellm_deployment_successful_fallbacks_total[30m])
+ ) > 5
+ for: 5m
+ labels:
+ severity: warning
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The two warning alerts stacked a for: duration comparable to their own 30m increase() window, so they took 45-60m to fire -- latency invisible to anyone reading just the threshold. The window already keeps a blip in view for its full duration, so for: only has to survive one bad evaluation. Also drops an incident narrative that duplicated proxy.yaml's and had gone stale (it named qwen-3.6-fast, renamed to qwen-3.8-fast), and clarifies that qwen35-2b left the fallback chain but is still running for karakeep.
The three existing rules are all traffic-derived, so the invariant proxy.yaml explicitly leans on -- qwen-3.8-fast must point at a live deployment -- was the one thing still unwatched. At this volume that is the same multi-hour lag that let the 2026-08-17 outage run ~6h before anyone noticed. kube_deployment_status_replicas_available == 0 fires on zero traffic and catches the actual cause (scaled to 0) plus crashloop and unschedulable; absent() catches the target being retired out from under the chain, which is what happened to qwen-3.6-fast. Same kube-state-metrics idiom as web3/monero/guard. Verified both branches against live VictoriaMetrics. Also corrects the omniroute pin comment: a digest stops Flux following the branch, it does not make it re-pull, and Renovate cannot prompt the move to v3.8.50 because `next` is not a version it can diff against.
AI Automated Review (incremental)Analysis engine: omniroute@http://litellm.ai.svc.cluster.local/v1 (openai) Recommendation: Approve. The incremental delta is comment-only rewording across the three changed files; no functional, metric, threshold, or image-digest change. Upstream PR 10034 (LKGP-clear fix) is confirmed merged 2026-08-13 and matches the stated rationale. Change-by-change:
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Dates, request counts, upstream build times and blow-by-blow retellings answer 'what happened' -- git history already does that. What a reader needs at the config is why it is shaped this way and what would change it, so keep the reasoning and the exit condition and drop the rest. Also fixes a mangled line wrap left in the rule group comment.
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In `@kubernetes/apps/ai/litellm/instance/prometheusrule.yaml`:
- Around line 10-15: Remove the for: 10m duration from LiteLLMRequestsFailing
and the for: 5m durations from both warning alerts in the PrometheusRule.
Preserve the existing 10-minute duration on LiteLLMFallbackBackendDown.
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| # increase() over rate(): traffic is bursty and tiny (single digits | ||
| # overnight, dozens during a Renovate burst), so a per-second rate rounds | ||
| # to noise. It also rides out the counter resets from litellm's pod rolls. | ||
| # The window is the debounce, so `for` only has to survive one bad | ||
| # evaluation -- setting it comparable to the window adds the two together | ||
| # and hides the real firing delay from anyone reading the threshold. |
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According to the official Prometheus alerting rules documentation, does an alert expression that remains true require the full configured for duration before it enters the firing state?
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Yes, according to the official Prometheus documentation, an alert expression that remains true does require the full configured for duration before it enters the firing state [1][2]. When an alerting rule includes a for clause, Prometheus monitors the alert expression during each evaluation cycle [1][3]. If the expression results in output for a given label set, the alert is considered active [1]. If the expression remains true for the entirety of the configured for duration, the alert transitions from the pending state to the firing state [1][4][5]. Alerts that are active but have not yet satisfied the full for duration remain in the pending state [1][3]. If an alerting rule does not have a for clause, it will become active and transition to the firing state on the first evaluation where the condition is met [1][6].
Citations:
- 1: https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/configuration/alerting_rules/
- 2: https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/3.14/configuration/alerting_rules/
- 3: https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/blob/main/docs/configuration/alerting_rules.md
- 4: https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/configuration/recording_rules/
- 5: https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/blob/main/rules/alerting.go
- 6: https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/3.5/configuration/alerting_rules/
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Remove the unnecessary alert-duration gates.
Prometheus requires the expression to remain true for the full for duration before firing. Remove for: 10m from LiteLLMRequestsFailing and for: 5m from both warning alerts. Keep the 10-minute gate on LiteLLMFallbackBackendDown to tolerate single-replica pod rolls.
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In `@kubernetes/apps/ai/litellm/instance/prometheusrule.yaml` around lines 10 -
15, Remove the for: 10m duration from LiteLLMRequestsFailing and the for: 5m
durations from both warning alerts in the PrometheusRule. Preserve the existing
10-minute duration on LiteLLMFallbackBackendDown.
| # instead of failing over (upstream #10034). No tagged release | ||
| # carries it yet; move to the v3.8.50 tag once it ships. | ||
| # Renovate cannot prompt that move -- `next` is not a version it | ||
| # can diff against, so it will only ever offer digest bumps that |
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Info (docs): PR body notes v3.8.50 now requires auth on /v1/models while /v1/chat/completions still accepts the no-auth key; confirm nothing else enumerates models against omniroute before relying on the no-auth path.
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The 2026-08-17 AI-gateway outage had three independent causes. All three are addressed here, and all three are already live-patched on the cluster (
ks/litellmandks/omnirouteare suspended) — merging this makes the running state match git.What broke
qwen-3.6-fast, whose backing deployment was scaled to 0 — a single-entry chain aimed at nothing.Changes
next(v3.8.50), digest-pinned. Carries upstream #10034, the LKGP-clear fix; no tagged release has it yet. Live result: candidate pool went from 2 candidates / 7 models / 14 targets to 4 candidates / 21 models / 19 targets, and two previously-errored accounts cleared themselves.omniroute: ["qwen-3.8-fast"]). A secondqwen35-2btier was tried and removed: llama.cpp splitscontextSizeacrossparallelSlots, so it served a 16384-token window and rejected every review-sized payload — converting a 503 into a 400. Widening it costs iGPU-node RAM not worth spending on a last resort.PrometheusRulewith three rules, metric names taken from litellm's live/metrics:LiteLLMRequestsFailing(critical, 10m) — requests failing outrightLiteLLMFallbackTargetUnavailable(warning, 15m) — the fallback itself is failing, i.e. no tier leftLiteLLMPrimaryDegraded(warning, 30m) — fallbacks succeeding often, so the primary is quietly sickVerification (live)
health=okx-omniroute-version: 3.8.50Note
3.8.50 changed
/v1/modelsto require auth (sk-omniroute-noauthnow getsinvalid_api_keythere)./v1/chat/completionsstill accepts it, so litellm is unaffected — but anything enumerating models against omniroute would need a real key.After merge
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