[jh-nv]

Overview

Dynamo had no single place that lists every metric it emits. The Metrics Catalog documented 83 metrics, nothing checked it against the code, and several of its statements no longer matched what a running frontend exposes. With this PR, the catalog lists every metric Dynamo defines, and its statements match live scrapes.

Key Changes

Documentation only; no code changes.

• metrics-catalog.mdx: lists 303 metrics, 281 that Dynamo defines plus 22 imitation engine metrics from the mocker, grouped by the process that exposes them. The 95 core metrics keep detailed entries; the other 208 are in tables with type, labels, a one-line description, and status (2 deprecated, 27 experimental). Each section states the port to scrape, the labels added automatically, and when the metrics appear. Engine, operator, NIXL, Velo, and KVBM metrics are out of scope and linked instead, and a new Engine Metrics section links the vLLM, SGLang, and TensorRT-LLM references.
• The same page corrects the statements that live scrapes contradict; see Validation.

An earlier revision put the full list on a separate Metrics Inventory page. Reviewers found that it overlapped the catalog, so the list now lives in the catalog and each metric is documented once. It also added a rule to the root AGENTS.md to update the catalog with every metric change; that rule is dropped, because #17495 moved PR rules out of that file and #17516 carries the same rule.

Validation

I ran python -m dynamo.frontend with two python -m dynamo.mocker workers in four configurations (KV routing aggregated, KV routing disaggregated, round-robin, and KV routing without a queue threshold), sent chat and completion requests, and scraped /metrics on the frontend and both workers. All 160 metric families seen are in the catalog. The scrapes contradicted these catalog statements:

Case	Catalog said	Scrape shows (now documented)
Router request, latency, and sequence-length metrics, non-KV mode	Always zero	Populated; only the KV-specific metrics stay at zero
dynamo_router_overhead_*, non-KV mode	Not registered	Registered on every frontend, always zero
dynamo_frontend_worker_*, non-KV mode	Registered and populated	worker_last_* populated; worker_active_* absent
dynamo_component_router_inter_token_latency_seconds, KV mode	Recorded	Empty unless --router-track-output-blocks is set
dynamo_frontend_router_queue_*	Registered only with a queue threshold	Series exist once a KV router starts, at zero without a threshold
Labels on worker metrics	All carry the hierarchy labels	Uptime carries only worker_id, dynamo_backend_admission_* has no dynamo_endpoint, dynamo_work_handler_* has none

The other entries come from the code that registers each metric: those that need a GPU engine, the planner, LoRA, the QUIC response plane, the standalone KV indexer, System One, or the Global Frontend. A script confirmed that each of the 303 names has exactly one entry.

Issues and Ongoing Work

• Closes DIS-3238
• docs(agents): add metrics guidelines for authoring metrics, logs, and traces #17516 and docs(review): add a metrics review prompt and apply it in CodeRabbit and pr-checklist #17517 (metrics authoring guidelines and review prompt) make the Metrics Catalog the source of truth for metric documentation, and docs(agents): add metrics guidelines for authoring metrics, logs, and traces #17516's rule D1 requires updating it in the same pull request. This PR gives them a complete catalog; their clause about metrics-inventory.md no longer applies.
• docs(systemone): document API, limits, and metrics #15425 (draft) documents the System One API and metrics in the catalog. Whichever lands second should keep one description of the System One metrics.
• ci(operator): check metric catalog consistency #17207 adds a CI check of the operator's metric catalog. A similar check for Dynamo metrics is tracked in DIS-3294.

Pull Request Checklist

• I used Dynamo's /pr-checklist skill.

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Walkthrough

The pull request adds a reference page for Dynamo-defined metrics, revises the Metrics Catalog’s descriptions of metric behavior, and links the inventory from contributor guidance and documentation navigation.

Changes

Metrics documentation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Metrics inventory docs/fern/pages/reference/observability/metrics-inventory.md	Adds a reference page that catalogs Dynamo-defined metrics by process and category, with types, labels, status, exposure, and availability conditions.
Metrics catalog details docs/fern/pages/reference/observability/metrics-catalog.mdx	Clarifies metric labels and availability across router modes. Adds engine pass-through metric details, including prefixes, enablement controls, and references.
Inventory links and update guidance AGENTS.md, lib/llm/AGENTS.md, docs/fern/index.yml, docs/fern/pages/developer-guide/advanced-customizations/metrics-developer-guide.md	Adds contributor instructions to update the inventory when Dynamo-defined metrics change. Adds navigation and related-documentation links to the inventory.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: Low · up to dbb55

Incorrect label guidance could cause monitoring queries to miss metrics. The documentation is otherwise mergeable with these corrections as follow-up.

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- Line 293: Clarify the metric-label description to state that `model` is added
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`worker_kv_indexer_query_dp{N}`.
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[harryskim]

Docs review. This is a strong, much-needed page.

What I checked: I grepped the PR head for all 294 metric names in the inventory tables, and each one is defined in the code. The planner port default, the LoRA "_total but gauge" note, and the disconnected_clients gauge type match the code. Every relative link and anchor resolves, and the external engine links load.

One blocking item: remove the KVBM section, since KVBM is sunset in v1.7.0 (inline comment). The rest are nits. CodeRabbit's comment on the model label at line 293 also stands.

Out of scope, separate PR: KVBM is still mentioned on about 30 pages under docs/fern/pages, including kvbm-configuration.mdx, the vLLM recipe templates, and compatibility.mdx. The deprecations entry also still says "removal is targeted for v1.7.0" instead of "removed".

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Previously reported defects still present:

• Original discussion: The Router introduction still implies dynamo_router_overhead_* receives the shared dynamo_namespace, dynamo_component, and worker_id labels, but those frontend-only metrics expose only router_id. Clarify this exception so label-filtered queries are not documented incorrectly.
• Original discussion: The backend Request Handling introduction still claims every endpoint metric receives model, although internal endpoints such as worker_kv_indexer_query_dp{N} do not. Limit the claim to inference endpoints so users do not write filters that suppress valid internal series.
• Original discussion: The inventory still lists 13 KVBM metrics even though v1.7/main no longer builds KVBM, so the current-version inventory presents removed metrics as emitted. Remove the KVBM table and point readers to v1.6-or-earlier documentation.
• Original discussion: Verified still present: the Backend Workers introduction says all request-handling metrics gain a model label, but internal endpoints such as worker_kv_indexer_query_dp{N} do not. This can make documented model-filtered queries silently return no series; scope the claim to inference endpoints.
• Original discussion: Verified still present: the new inventory lists KVBM metrics as emitted metrics even though KVBM is no longer built on main/v1.7. Remove this section and point readers of older releases to the corresponding versioned documentation.

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[sttts]

Two documentation findings: distinguish the multimodal/embedding label sets, and clarify the logical KVBM collector's coverage and registration conditions. Source inspection only; no tests were run.

[nv-yna]

the metrics inventory and catelog seems overlap with each other on some parts. Can we consolidate?

[jh-nv]

@nv-yna Done in d6b3aa9: I merged the inventory into the Metrics Catalog and deleted metrics-inventory.md, so each metric is documented once. Core metrics keep their detailed entries; the others are in tables under the process that exposes them. One thing to check against #17516: about 165 of the newly listed metrics have status Current, and its stability rule would treat any catalog entry without an experimental mark as stable.