📈 Prometheus metrics

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✨ Prometheus metrics is on LiteLLM Enterprise

LiteLLM Exposes a /metrics endpoint for Prometheus to Poll

Quick Start

If you're using the LiteLLM CLI with litellm --config proxy_config.yaml then you need to pip install prometheus_client==0.20.0. This is already pre-installed on the litellm Docker image

Add this to your proxy config.yaml

model_list:
 - model_name: gpt-3.5-turbo
    litellm_params:
      model: gpt-3.5-turbo
litellm_settings:
  callbacks: ["prometheus"]

Start the proxy

litellm --config config.yaml --debug

Test Request

curl --location 'http://0.0.0.0:4000/chat/completions' \
    --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
    --data '{
    "model": "gpt-3.5-turbo",
    "messages": [
        {
        "role": "user",
        "content": "what llm are you"
        }
    ]
}'

View Metrics on /metrics, Visit http://localhost:4000/metrics

http://localhost:4000/metrics

# <proxy_base_url>/metrics

Virtual Keys, Teams, Internal Users Metrics

Use this for for tracking per user, key, team, etc.

Metric Name	Description
`litellm_spend_metric`	Total Spend, per `"user", "key", "model", "team", "end-user"`
`litellm_total_tokens`	input + output tokens per `"user", "key", "model", "team", "end-user"`
`litellm_input_tokens`	input tokens per `"user", "key", "model", "team", "end-user"`
`litellm_output_tokens`	output tokens per `"user", "key", "model", "team", "end-user"`

Proxy Level Tracking Metrics

Use this to track overall LiteLLM Proxy usage.

Track Actual traffic rate to proxy
Number of client side requests and failures for requests made to proxy

Metric Name	Description
`litellm_proxy_failed_requests_metric`	Total number of failed responses from proxy - the client did not get a success response from litellm proxy. Labels: `"end_user", "hashed_api_key", "api_key_alias", "requested_model", "team", "team_alias", "user", "exception_status", "exception_class"`
`litellm_proxy_total_requests_metric`	Total number of requests made to the proxy server - track number of client side requests. Labels: `"end_user", "hashed_api_key", "api_key_alias", "requested_model", "team", "team_alias", "user", "status_code"`

LLM API / Provider Metrics

Use this for LLM API Error monitoring and tracking remaining rate limits and token limits

Labels Tracked for LLM API Metrics

Label	Description
litellm_model_name	The name of the LLM model used by LiteLLM
requested_model	The model sent in the request
model_id	The model_id of the deployment. Autogenerated by LiteLLM, each deployment has a unique model_id
api_base	The API Base of the deployment
api_provider	The LLM API provider, used for the provider. Example (azure, openai, vertex_ai)
hashed_api_key	The hashed api key of the request
api_key_alias	The alias of the api key used
team	The team of the request
team_alias	The alias of the team used
exception_status	The status of the exception, if any
exception_class	The class of the exception, if any

Success and Failure Metrics for LLM API

Metric Name	Description
`litellm_deployment_success_responses`	Total number of successful LLM API calls for deployment. Labels: `"requested_model", "litellm_model_name", "model_id", "api_base", "api_provider", "hashed_api_key", "api_key_alias", "team", "team_alias"`
`litellm_deployment_failure_responses`	Total number of failed LLM API calls for a specific LLM deployment. Labels: `"requested_model", "litellm_model_name", "model_id", "api_base", "api_provider", "hashed_api_key", "api_key_alias", "team", "team_alias", "exception_status", "exception_class"`
`litellm_deployment_total_requests`	Total number of LLM API calls for deployment - success + failure. Labels: `"requested_model", "litellm_model_name", "model_id", "api_base", "api_provider", "hashed_api_key", "api_key_alias", "team", "team_alias"`

Remaining Requests and Tokens Metrics

Metric Name	Description
`litellm_remaining_requests_metric`	Track `x-ratelimit-remaining-requests` returned from LLM API Deployment. Labels: `"model_group", "api_provider", "api_base", "litellm_model_name", "hashed_api_key", "api_key_alias"`
`litellm_remaining_tokens`	Track `x-ratelimit-remaining-tokens` return from LLM API Deployment. Labels: `"model_group", "api_provider", "api_base", "litellm_model_name", "hashed_api_key", "api_key_alias"`

Deployment State Metrics

Metric Name	Description
`litellm_deployment_state`	The state of the deployment: 0 = healthy, 1 = partial outage, 2 = complete outage. Labels: `"litellm_model_name", "model_id", "api_base", "api_provider"`
`litellm_deployment_latency_per_output_token`	Latency per output token for deployment. Labels: `"litellm_model_name", "model_id", "api_base", "api_provider", "hashed_api_key", "api_key_alias", "team", "team_alias"`

Fallback (Failover) Metrics

Metric Name	Description
`litellm_deployment_cooled_down`	Number of times a deployment has been cooled down by LiteLLM load balancing logic. Labels: `"litellm_model_name", "model_id", "api_base", "api_provider", "exception_status"`
`litellm_deployment_successful_fallbacks`	Number of successful fallback requests from primary model -> fallback model. Labels: `"requested_model", "fallback_model", "hashed_api_key", "api_key_alias", "team", "team_alias", "exception_status", "exception_class"`
`litellm_deployment_failed_fallbacks`	Number of failed fallback requests from primary model -> fallback model. Labels: `"requested_model", "fallback_model", "hashed_api_key", "api_key_alias", "team", "team_alias", "exception_status", "exception_class"`

Request Latency Metrics

Metric Name	Description
`litellm_request_total_latency_metric`	Total latency (seconds) for a request to LiteLLM Proxy Server - tracked for labels `model`, `hashed_api_key`, `api_key_alias`, `team`, `team_alias`
`litellm_llm_api_latency_metric`	Latency (seconds) for just the LLM API call - tracked for labels `model`, `hashed_api_key`, `api_key_alias`, `team`, `team_alias`
`litellm_llm_api_time_to_first_token_metric`	Time to first token for LLM API call - tracked for labels `model`, `hashed_api_key`, `api_key_alias`, `team`, `team_alias` [Note: only emitted for streaming requests]

Virtual Key - Budget, Rate Limit Metrics

Metrics used to track LiteLLM Proxy Budgeting and Rate limiting logic

Metric Name	Description
`litellm_remaining_team_budget_metric`	Remaining Budget for Team (A team created on LiteLLM) Labels: `"team_id", "team_alias"`
`litellm_remaining_api_key_budget_metric`	Remaining Budget for API Key (A key Created on LiteLLM) Labels: `"hashed_api_key", "api_key_alias"`
`litellm_remaining_api_key_requests_for_model`	Remaining Requests for a LiteLLM virtual API key, only if a model-specific rate limit (rpm) has been set for that virtual key. Labels: `"hashed_api_key", "api_key_alias", "model"`
`litellm_remaining_api_key_tokens_for_model`	Remaining Tokens for a LiteLLM virtual API key, only if a model-specific token limit (tpm) has been set for that virtual key. Labels: `"hashed_api_key", "api_key_alias", "model"`

Monitor System Health

To monitor the health of litellm adjacent services (redis / postgres), do:

model_list:
 - model_name: gpt-3.5-turbo
    litellm_params:
      model: gpt-3.5-turbo
litellm_settings:
  service_callback: ["prometheus_system"]

Metric Name	Description
`litellm_redis_latency`	histogram latency for redis calls
`litellm_redis_fails`	Number of failed redis calls
`litellm_self_latency`	Histogram latency for successful litellm api call

🔥 LiteLLM Maintained Grafana Dashboards

Link to Grafana Dashboards maintained by LiteLLM

https://github.com/BerriAI/litellm/tree/main/cookbook/litellm_proxy_server/grafana_dashboard

Here is a screenshot of the metrics you can monitor with the LiteLLM Grafana Dashboard

Deprecated Metrics

Metric Name	Description
`litellm_llm_api_failed_requests_metric`	deprecated use `litellm_proxy_failed_requests_metric`
`litellm_requests_metric`	deprecated use `litellm_proxy_total_requests_metric`

FAQ

What are `_created` vs. `_total` metrics?

_created metrics are metrics that are created when the proxy starts
_total metrics are metrics that are incremented for each request

You should consume the _total metrics for your counting purposes

📈 Prometheus metrics

Quick Start​

Virtual Keys, Teams, Internal Users Metrics​

Proxy Level Tracking Metrics​

LLM API / Provider Metrics​

Labels Tracked for LLM API Metrics​

Success and Failure Metrics for LLM API​

Remaining Requests and Tokens Metrics​

Deployment State Metrics​

Fallback (Failover) Metrics​

Request Latency Metrics​

Virtual Key - Budget, Rate Limit Metrics​

Monitor System Health​

🔥 LiteLLM Maintained Grafana Dashboards ​

Deprecated Metrics​

FAQ​

What are _created vs. _total metrics?​