--- title: 5 steps to triage vLLM performance | daily.dev description: A diagnostic workflow for triaging vLLM inference performance issues in production. Covers five steps: isolating latency symptoms (TTFT vs ITL), detecting... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/5-steps-to-triage-vllm-performance-29ze70xsb twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: 5 steps to triage vLLM performance | daily.dev og:description: A diagnostic workflow for triaging vLLM inference performance issues in production. Covers five steps: isolating latency symptoms (TTFT vs ITL), detecting... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/5-steps-to-triage-vllm-performance-29ze70xsb og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/29ze70XSB.png og:image:alt: 5 steps to triage vLLM performance og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # 5 steps to triage vLLM performance **[Red Hat Developer](https://daily.dev/sources/rhdev)** · 13 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A diagnostic workflow for triaging vLLM inference performance issues in production. Covers five steps: isolating latency symptoms (TTFT vs ITL), detecting server saturation via queue metrics, evaluating VRAM and KV cache health, analyzing request sequence lengths, and reviewing distributed inference strategies. Includes concrete Prometheus queries, log examples, and remediation paths such as quantization (FP8), speculative decoding, tensor parallelism tuning, and right-sizing models. Emphasizes defining workload goals (throughput vs latency vs bursty) before diving into metrics. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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