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docs: update metrics design doc to use new vllm:kv_cache_usage_perc #30041

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fix(metrics): correct kv_cache_usage_perc metric name in documentation
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Expand Up @@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ The subset of metrics exposed in the Grafana dashboard gives us an indication of
- `vllm:time_per_output_token_seconds` - Inter-token latency (Time Per Output Token, TPOT) in seconds.
- `vllm:time_to_first_token_seconds` - Time to First Token (TTFT) latency in seconds.
- `vllm:num_requests_running` (also, `_swapped` and `_waiting`) - Number of requests in the RUNNING, WAITING, and SWAPPED states.
- `vllm:gpu_cache_usage_perc` - Percentage of used cache blocks by vLLM.
- `vllm:kv_cache_usage_perc` - Percentage of used cache blocks by vLLM.
- `vllm:request_prompt_tokens` - Request prompt length.
- `vllm:request_generation_tokens` - Request generation length.
- `vllm:request_success` - Number of finished requests by their finish reason: either an EOS token was generated or the max sequence length was reached.
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