LATENCY & PERFORMANCEAI SRE

KV Cache Reliability

KV cache stores attention state for processed tokens so the model does not recompute them for every decode step.

WHY IT MATTERS

KV cache is a major VRAM consumer and a direct limiter on long-context concurrency.

PRODUCTION EXAMPLE

The GPUs have compute headroom, but requests queue because KV cache allocation is nearly exhausted.

SRE DECISION

Do capacity alerts monitor KV cache separately from overall GPU utilization?

REMEMBERA GPU can be compute-idle and still be memory-constrained by KV cache.
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