Time to first token has tripled on your inference service. Nothing deployed. Walk me through the triage.

Queue time, prefill and decode fail for different reasons and the aggregate hides which. Split the metric first and the candidate list drops from twenty to three.

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Queue time, prefill and decode fail for different reasons and the aggregate hides which. Split the metric first and the candidate list drops from twenty to three.

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Next in this trackSupport says the assistant is citing a policy that changed last month. The index was rebuilt. Debug it.Next in this trackA progressive rollout has been paused at 50 percent for two hours and nobody knows whether to promote or abort.Next in this trackHalf your inference fleet went unschedulable overnight and nobody deployed anything. Start.

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