Why Is It Slow? What My vLLM Dashboard Told Me
Chris Child | 2026-09-02 | 13 min readComments
The model felt slow, so I stopped guessing. Prometheus on my Unraid box scrapes vLLM, LiteLLM, and the GPU — and a 31-panel Grafana dashboard separates 'slow prefill' from 'KV cache exhaustion' from 'the engine is dead'.