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Summary

Extend Dynamo’s existing telemetry module with the first runtime-level instrumentation for tracing individual inference requests. The lifecycle is modeled as a simplified finite-state machine, providing a consistent per-request view of how work progresses across the runtime without relying on engine-specific events.

• Introduce lifecycle spans for:
  REQUEST_RECEIVED → PREFILL_ADMITTED → PREFILLING → DECODE_ADMITTED → STREAMING → COMPLETED | FAILED | CANCELLED.
• Record request and session identity, state timing, and terminal outcome to correlate a request’s full lifecycle.
• Keep the model engine-independent and applicable to aggregate and disaggregated serving.
• Start STREAMING when the first client-visible output is delivered, distinct from decode admission or backend stream setup.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Added opt-in request-lifecycle tracing for chat completions, worker operations, queueing, KV transfer, and response streaming.
  • Traces can capture request identity, session information, timing, and terminal outcomes such as success, failure, cancellation, timeout, or rejection.
  • Added configuration options for enabling tracing and selecting trace profiles and detail modes.

• Bug Fixes

  • TCP response timeouts are now classified separately from connection failures, improving monitoring accuracy.

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Walkthrough

Added opt-in lifecycle tracing across Dynamo runtime requests, OpenAI chat completions, ingress handling, vLLM generation, and worker operations. Added terminal outcome tracking, timeout classification, environment configuration, and OpenTelemetry filtering.

Changes

Lifecycle tracing

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Telemetry model and lifecycle state lib/runtime/src/telemetry.rs, components/src/dynamo/common/backend/telemetry.py, components/src/dynamo/common/backend/tests/test_telemetry.py	Added lifecycle stages, request identity, terminal outcomes, environment gating, duration spans, and validation tests.
Runtime configuration and logging lib/runtime/src/config/environment_names.rs, lib/runtime/src/lib.rs, lib/runtime/src/logging.rs	Exported lifecycle configuration and telemetry modules. OpenTelemetry filtering now includes lifecycle events when enabled.
Request lifecycle instrumentation lib/runtime/src/pipeline/network/ingress/push_handler.rs, lib/llm/src/http/service/openai.rs, lib/llm/src/http/service/metrics.rs, lib/runtime/src/pipeline/network/egress/tcp_client.rs	Instrumented request admission, dispatch, streaming, completion, cancellation, rejection, failure, and timeout outcomes.
Worker and generation spans components/src/dynamo/vllm/handlers.py, lib/backend-common/src/adapter.rs	Added engine queue, KV transfer, worker operation, and response-streaming spans across vLLM and adapter generation paths.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 1c5d1

The PR adds lifecycle telemetry across request handling and worker execution. At the current head, one test fails deterministically, aggregate serving omits a worker boundary, some timeout and cancellation outcomes are misclassified, and caller-controlled identifiers may enter telemetry without demonstrated bounds or redaction; early rejection and abnormal stream termination can also produce incomplete outcomes. The change is not merge-ready until these issues are corrected or explicitly accepted.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 3 | ❌ 2

❌ Failed checks (2 warnings)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Description check	⚠️ Warning	The description explains the main implementation and lifecycle states, but it does not follow the required template. It omits the Overview, Details, Where should the reviewer start?, and required Rela…	Update the description to include all required template sections. Add the related issue reference, or confirm that no related issue exists using the required checkbox.
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 51.67% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 60 functions across 12 files.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (3 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly summarizes the primary change: adding per-request lifecycle instrumentation at runtime.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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The description explains the main implementation and lifecycle states, but it does not follow the required template. It omits the Overview, Details, Where should the reviewer start?, and required Related Issues sections.

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Actionable comments posted: 5

🧹 Nitpick comments (1)

lib/runtime/src/telemetry.rs (1)

110-111: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Cache the lifecycle environment values once per process.

LifecycleIdentity::new calls lifecycle_profile() and lifecycle_mode() for every lifecycle identity, and start_worker_operation plus start_worker_response_streaming call worker_disaggregation_mode() for every span. Each call performs a std::env::var lookup and allocates a String on the per-request path. These values are process-static, like process_epoch and instance_id in the same file. Use OnceLock and return &'static str to remove the per-request lookups and allocations.

♻️ Proposed refactor using the existing OnceLock pattern

-fn lifecycle_profile() -> String {
-    std::env::var(DYN_LIFECYCLE_TRACE_PROFILE)
-        .ok()
-        .filter(|profile| !profile.trim().is_empty())
-        .unwrap_or_else(|| DEFAULT_PROFILE.to_string())
+static PROFILE: OnceLock<String> = OnceLock::new();
+
+fn lifecycle_profile() -> &'static str {
+    PROFILE
+        .get_or_init(|| {
+            std::env::var(DYN_LIFECYCLE_TRACE_PROFILE)
+                .ok()
+                .filter(|profile| !profile.trim().is_empty())
+                .unwrap_or_else(|| DEFAULT_PROFILE.to_string())
+        })
+        .as_str()
 }

Apply the same pattern to lifecycle_mode and worker_disaggregation_mode, and change the LifecycleIdentity fields to &'static str.

Also applies to: 399-411, 430-434

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In `@lib/runtime/src/telemetry.rs` around lines 110 - 111, Cache
lifecycle_profile(), lifecycle_mode(), and worker_disaggregation_mode() with
OnceLock using the existing process-static caching pattern, returning &'static
str values after the initial environment lookup. Update LifecycleIdentity fields
and the affected lifecycle/span construction paths, including
start_worker_operation and start_worker_response_streaming, to use these
borrowed static values without per-request String allocations.

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Inline comments:
In `@components/src/dynamo/common/backend/tests/test_telemetry.py`:
- Around line 203-205: Update test_start_lifecycle_span_is_gated_and_timing_only
to clear DYN_LIFECYCLE_TRACE_ENABLED with monkeypatch before the first
telemetry.start_lifecycle_span call, ensuring the disabled-path assertion is
independent of inherited environment state.

In `@lib/llm/src/http/service/openai.rs`:
- Around line 140-143: Update the terminal outcome classification around the
response status check so HTTP 499 returns TerminalOutcome::Cancelled before the
general is_client_error() branch; preserve other client errors as Rejected and
non-client errors as Failed.

In `@lib/runtime/src/pipeline/network/egress/tcp_client.rs`:
- Line 1695: Update the timeout handling near the tokio::time::timeout call so
pre-dispatch timeouts covering admission, frame encoding, or queue submission
use a non-response timeout ErrorType; reserve ErrorType::ResponseTimeout for
timeouts occurring while waiting for the response, preserving the push router’s
classification behavior.

In `@lib/runtime/src/telemetry.rs`:
- Around line 496-509: Update enabled_trace_creates_a_fieldless_registered_span
and its expected CapturedSpan to reflect the 12 static fields attached by
common_span!, including the correct field_count; rename the test to describe the
registered span’s actual field-bearing behavior.
- Around line 338-344: Update start_worker_operation to return a generic
WorkerOperation span when worker_disaggregation_mode is unset or unrecognized,
instead of Span::none(). Add the WorkerOperation variant to LifecycleStage, map
it to the “worker.operation” name, and map it to the “worker” component.

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Nitpick comments:
In `@lib/runtime/src/telemetry.rs`:
- Around line 110-111: Cache lifecycle_profile(), lifecycle_mode(), and
worker_disaggregation_mode() with OnceLock using the existing process-static
caching pattern, returning &'static str values after the initial environment
lookup. Update LifecycleIdentity fields and the affected lifecycle/span
construction paths, including start_worker_operation and
start_worker_response_streaming, to use these borrowed static values without
per-request String allocations.

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• components/src/dynamo/common/backend/telemetry.py
• components/src/dynamo/common/backend/tests/test_telemetry.py
• components/src/dynamo/vllm/handlers.py
• lib/backend-common/src/adapter.rs
• lib/llm/src/http/service/metrics.rs
• lib/llm/src/http/service/openai.rs
• lib/runtime/src/config/environment_names.rs
• lib/runtime/src/lib.rs
• lib/runtime/src/logging.rs
• lib/runtime/src/pipeline/network/egress/tcp_client.rs
• lib/runtime/src/pipeline/network/ingress/push_handler.rs
• lib/runtime/src/telemetry.rs

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