LATENCY & PERFORMANCEAI SRE

TTFT — Time to First Token

TTFT measures how long the user waits from sending a request until the first generated token arrives.

WHY IT MATTERS

TTFT strongly influences perceived responsiveness and exposes queueing, prompt-processing and model-startup delays.

PRODUCTION EXAMPLE

The answer streams quickly once it starts, but users wait 6.5 seconds before seeing anything because GPU queues are saturated.

SRE DECISION

What p50, p95 and p99 TTFT targets should this service tier maintain?

REMEMBERTTFT is the AI equivalent of 'how long before the system feels alive?'
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