CoreWeave Observability

Overview

CoreWeave runs GPU-intensive workloads on Kubernetes where hardware failures, memory exhaustion, and underutilization directly impact cost and reliability. Observability must cover DCGM GPU metrics, Kubernetes pod health, inference latency, and job completion rates. Proactive monitoring prevents wasted spend on idle GPUs and catches OOM conditions before they cascade.

Key Metrics

Metric	Type	Target	Alert Threshold
GPU utilization	Gauge	> 60%	< 20% for 30m
GPU memory usage	Gauge	< 85%	> 95% for 5m
Inference latency p99	Histogram	< 200ms	> 500ms
Job completion rate	Counter	> 99%	< 95% per hour
Pod restart count	Counter	0	> 3 in 15m
Node GPU temperature	Gauge	< 80C	> 85C for 10m

Instrumentation

async function trackInference(model: string, fn: () => Promise<any>) {
  const start = Date.now();
  try {
    const result = await fn();
    metrics.record('coreweave.inference.latency', Date.now() - start, { model, status: 'ok' });
    metrics.increment('coreweave.inference.completed', { model });
    return result;
  } catch (err) {
    metrics.increment('coreweave.inference.errors', { model, error: err.code });
    throw err;
  }
}

Health Check Dashboard

async function coreweaveHealth(): Promise<Record<string, string>> {
  const gpu = await queryPrometheus('avg(DCGM_FI_DEV_GPU_UTIL)');
  const mem = await queryPrometheus('avg(DCGM_FI_DEV_FB_USED/(DCGM_FI_DEV_FB_USED+DCGM_FI_DEV_FB_FREE))');
  const pods = await queryPrometheus('kube_deployment_status_replicas_available{namespace="inference"}');
  return {
    gpu_utilization: gpu > 20 ? 'healthy' : 'underutilized',
    gpu_memory: mem < 0.9 ? 'healthy' : 'critical',
    inference_pods: pods > 0 ? 'healthy' : 'down',
  };
}

Alerting Rules

const alerts = [
  { metric: 'DCGM_FI_DEV_GPU_UTIL', condition: 'avg < 20', window: '30m', severity: 'warning' },
  { metric: 'gpu_memory_pct', condition: '> 0.95', window: '5m', severity: 'critical' },
  { metric: 'inference_latency_p99', condition: '> 500ms', window: '10m', severity: 'warning' },
  { metric: 'pod_restart_count', condition: '> 3', window: '15m', severity: 'critical' },
];

Structured Logging

function logGpuEvent(event: string, node: string, data: Record<string, any>) {
  console.log(JSON.stringify({
    service: 'coreweave', event, node,
    gpu_model: data.gpu_model, utilization: data.util,
    memory_pct: data.memPct, temperature: data.temp,
    timestamp: new Date().toISOString(),
  }));
}

Error Handling

Signal	Meaning	Action
GPU util < 20% sustained	Idle GPUs burning cost	Scale down or reassign workload
GPU memory > 95%	OOM imminent	Reduce batch size or add nodes
Pod CrashLoopBackOff	Driver or config failure	Check DCGM logs, restart node
Inference latency spike	Contention or throttling	Review GPU temp and queue depth
Node NotReady	Hardware or network issue	Cordon node, migrate pods

Resources

• CoreWeave Observability

Next Steps

For incident response, see coreweave-incident-runbook.