Define the SLIs and SLOs for a streaming LLM endpoint. Why is p99 latency the wrong headline metric?

A request that streams for ninety seconds is not slow, it is long. Total latency mixes the part users wait for with the part they read, and an SLO built on it will page you for success.

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