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function litellm-health active Verifies the LiteLLM inference stack health. Current architecture (2026-07-09): nginx:80 → LiteLLM:4000 → GPU(llama-server) via direct proxy. Router (harness-router :9000) was DECOMMISSIONED 2026-09-11 (container, image and config removed). GPU monitoring via Prometheus/Grafana and fleet dashboard (gpu-monitor :9100). Designed as a reusable contract for any Syslog agent. Source of truth: gpu-fleet.prose.md ## Monitoring / Alerting (as-built 2026-08-09) - LiteLLM /metrics scrape job: requires `litellm_settings.success_callback: [prometheus]` (failure_callback alone does NOT mount /metrics — verified 2026-08-09). Scraped by Prometheus with Bearer master key; endpoint returns 307 → /metrics/. - Alertmanager (harness-alertmanager :9093) + zulip-bridge (:9102) deliver firing alerts to #agent-hub > alerts-infra via abiba-bot. Added 2026-08-09. - Prometheus node job covers ALL 5 PVE nodes (.5/.6/.9/.12/.15:9100).

Architecture (v4.0.0 — Direct: nginx → LiteLLM → GPU)

Request → nginx:80 → LiteLLM:4000 → GPU(llama-server, parallel 2)
                        │
                  Key validation
                  Fallback chains
                  Budget tracking
                        │
                  Prometheus ← metrics
                        │
                    Grafana :3001

  harness-router :9000 — DECOMMISSIONED 2026-09-11 (container, image
  and config removed). nginx routes /v1 → LiteLLM directly.
  Router slot booking + circuit breakers replaced by
  LiteLLM native fallbacks + timeouts.

What changed (v3.2.0 → v4.0.0 — 2026-07-08):

  • Router REMOVED from request path — LiteLLM proxies directly to GPU
  • All GPUs at parallel 2 (was parallel 1)
  • NVIDIA context reduced 256K→128K to free VRAM — now the stable ceiling across all GPUs (2026-07-17)
  • Timeouts and fallback chains are config state — read them from CT 116 /opt/inference-harness/litellm_config.yaml; they are not duplicated here.

Parameters

  • public_url: string — The public LiteLLM URL (default: "https://litellm.sysloggh.net")
  • backend_host: string — Internal CT host for container checks (default: "192.168.68.116")
  • auth_host: string — Authentik server for OIDC (default: "192.168.68.11")
  • gpu_hosts: array — GPU inference hosts (default: ["192.168.68.8", "192.168.68.110", "192.168.68.15"])
  • gpu_dashboard_url: string — Fleet dashboard (default: "http://192.168.68.24:9100")
  • grafana_url: string — Grafana dashboards (default: "http://192.168.68.116:3001")

Returns

  • overall_status: "healthy" | "degraded" | "down"
  • checks: array of { name: string, status: string, detail: string }
  • timestamp: string — ISO timestamp of the check run
  • duration_ms: number — How long the check took

Requires

  • SSH key access to backend_host for container checks
  • Network access to public_url, auth_host, and gpu_dashboard_url
  • LiteLLM master key for admin endpoints only (/key/list, /key/generate, /key/info)
  • The dedicated monitor agent key on CT 116 at /etc/litellm-monitor.env (root-only 0600) for model inference checks — the master key must never be used for inference

GPU Fleet Topology

Host IP Hardware Role
llm-gpu 192.168.68.8 NVIDIA RTX 3090 (24 GB) heavy reasoning (gpu-dense)
ocu-llm 192.168.68.110 NVIDIA RTX 5070 (12 GB) vision / web extract / light tasks (gpu-vision)
amdpve 192.168.68.15 AMD Strix Halo 64GB UMA compression (strix-moe)

Single source of truth for models, aliases, rpm caps, weights and fallback chains: CT 116 /opt/inference-harness/litellm_config.yaml. Do not duplicate those values in contracts — read them there. Do not re-add retired names (gemma-4-12b, gpu-light, crew-auto).

Re-scope note (2026-09-12): the earlier plan to restate the live fallback chains and per-model timeouts in this contract is intentionally superseded — that state is config, and this contract points at the CT 116 config instead. Step 7 likewise authenticates with the dedicated monitor key, not the master key, which is admin-only.

Containers on CT 116

Container Image Port Health Check
harness-litellm ghcr.io/docker.litellm.ai/berriai/litellm:1.99.1 :4000→:4000 /health/liveliness
harness-nginx nginx:alpine :80 HTTP 200 on /health
harness-postgres postgres:16-alpine :5432 pg_isready
harness-redis redis:7-alpine :6379 PING
harness-dashboard inference-harness-dashboard :3000 /health
harness-grafana grafana/grafana :3000→:3001 /api/health
harness-prometheus prom/prometheus :9090 /-/healthy

Execution

  1. Read parameters — Use provided values or defaults

  2. Check the end-user surfaces — the public edge and the backend edge serve the SAME app under DIFFERENT paths. They are not interchangeable, so every probe below must name the surface it targets. Never point a check at a path that only resolves on the other surface.

    Public edge — {{public_url}} (https://litellm.sysloggh.net) serves the app at the ROOT; the /litellm/ prefix does not exist there and 404s:

    • GET {{public_url}}/ui/ → expect 200 ("LiteLLM Dashboard")
    • GET {{public_url}}/docs → expect 200 ("LiteLLM API - Swagger UI")
    • GET {{public_url}}/litellm/ui/ and {{public_url}}/litellm/docs → expect 404 (not served on this edge)

    Backend edge — http://{{backend_host}} (port 80) serves the app UNDER /litellm/:

  3. Check LiteLLM health (no-auth):

  4. Check backend container health:

    • SSH to {{backend_host}} → docker ps → verify 12 containers healthy (11 harness + trove-agent-docker, added 2026-09-11)
    • Critical: harness-litellm, harness-nginx, harness-postgres
    • Monitoring: harness-redis, harness-dashboard, harness-grafana, harness-prometheus, harness-alertmanager, harness-zulip-bridge, harness-docker-stats, harness-pve-exporter, trove-agent-docker (ghcr.io/techdox/trove-agent-docker, added 2026-09-11)
  5. Check GPU fleet health via gpu-monitor (router decommissioned 2026-09-11):

    • GET {{gpu_dashboard_url}}/gpu-data → expect 200 with GPU metrics JSON
    • nginx /health/unified is now a 301 redirect to /gpu/gpu-data (same payload)
  6. Check GPU fleet health (via fleet dashboard):

    • GET {{gpu_dashboard_url}}/gpu-data → expect 200 with GPU metrics JSON
    • Verify GPUs reporting status "healthy"
    • Check alerts array for active warnings/critical
  7. Check model inference via LiteLLM — Test one model on each GPU host. The health check runs on the backend edge, not the public edge, so these paths carry the /litellm/ prefix:

    • POST http://{{backend_host}}/litellm/v1/chat/completions model=qwen3.6-27B-code → expect 200 (RTX 3090, .8)
    • POST http://{{backend_host}}/litellm/v1/chat/completions model=gpu-vision → expect 200 (RTX 5070, .110)
    • POST http://{{backend_host}}/litellm/v1/chat/completions model=strix-moe → expect 200 (Strix Halo, .15)
    • Auth uses the dedicated monitor agent key, read on CT 116 from /etc/litellm-monitor.env (root-only 0600). Do NOT use the master key for inference — the master key is for admin endpoints only (/key/list, /key/generate, /key/info).
    • gemma-4-12b was retired and returns 400 Invalid model name — do not re-add it to this list. The RTX 5070 host now serves gpu-vision.
    • /v1/models is key-scoped: a model is only visible to keys allowed to use it, so the set depends on the key. Always state which key a model list was read with — a snapshot without its key is not evidence. This probe uses the monitor key on the backend surface (http://{{backend_host}}/litellm/v1/models). The authoritative model registry is CT 116 /opt/inference-harness/litellm_config.yaml; read it there rather than freezing a list here.
  8. Check agent keys:

  9. Check Grafana:

    • GET {{grafana_url}}/api/health → expect 200
  10. Compile and report — Determine overall_status from individual check results