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Xinference generated-token counter

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Fields

id
metric-exposures/w5e-xinference-xinference-generate-tokens-total
Metric name
xinference:generate_tokens_total
Metric type
counter
Unit
tokens
Exposure
prometheus
Endpoint
:9090/metrics (only when a metrics exporter host/port is set)
Enabled by default
no
notes
Cumulative generated tokens, LLM models only (the docstring says so explicitly) - on an embedding or rerank model this counter never advances. This is the token-throughput numerator for any tok/s you compute from this engine's metrics. Xinference main (xorbitsai/inference), read 2026-10-05. NOT ON BY DEFAULT on the worker: the /metrics endpoint is only mounted when XINFERENCE_DISABLE_METRICS is unset AND a metrics exporter host or port is supplied; otherwise launch_metrics_export_server() is never called and the endpoint does not exist. Supervisor-side metrics are deregistered from the worker's registry on purpose (launch_metrics_export_server removes _SUPERVISOR_ONLY_METRICS), so the worker endpoint carries only worker metrics and the supervisor endpoint only supervisor metrics. aioprometheus, not prometheus_client: counters do not auto-suffix _total the way prometheus_client does, so two of these names end in _counter and three do not - match on the literal name.

Notes

Cumulative generated tokens, LLM models only (the docstring says so explicitly) - on an embedding or rerank model this counter never advances. This is the token-throughput numerator for any tok/s you compute from this engine's metrics. Xinference main (xorbitsai/inference), read 2026-10-05. NOT ON BY DEFAULT on the worker: the /metrics endpoint is only mounted when XINFERENCE_DISABLE_METRICS is unset AND a metrics exporter host or port is supplied; otherwise launch_metrics_export_server() is never called and the endpoint does not exist. Supervisor-side metrics are deregistered from the worker's registry on purpose (launch_metrics_export_server removes _SUPERVISOR_ONLY_METRICS), so the worker endpoint carries only worker metrics and the supervisor endpoint only supervisor metrics. aioprometheus, not prometheus_client: counters do not auto-suffix _total the way prometheus_client does, so two of these names end in _counter and three do not - match on the literal name.

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