For a long time, I recorded one latency number for every LLM request: latency_ms =...
For a long time, I recorded one latency number for every LLM request:
latency_ms = response_finished_at - request_started_at
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It looked useful. I could calculate an average, add a p95 chart, and see whether a model was getting slower.
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