Parakeet: use 10-hour audio duration histogram buckets

[beastoin]

Summary

Fixes parakeet_audio_duration_seconds histogram buckets — batch endpoints receive full audio files up to hours long, but the ASR latency buckets (max 30s) lumped everything into +Inf, making percentiles useless.

New buckets: (1, 5, 10, 30, 60, 120, 300, 600, 1800, 3600, 7200, 18000, 36000) — covers 1s to 10h.

One-line change in bucket definition.

Relates to #7961

Test plan

• 66 parakeet tests pass
• Mon to verify bucket labels on /metrics after deploy and add "Total Audio Transcribed (hours)" Grafana panel

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[greptile-apps]

Greptile Summary

This PR extends the Parakeet ASR service with a richer Prometheus metrics layer: new histograms for audio duration, queue wait, and GPU inference time; a real-time-factor Gauge; OOM and request counters; and the callback mechanism in BatchEngine/GPUWorker that feeds them. However, the stated goal — giving parakeet_audio_duration_seconds bucket coverage up to 10 hours — is not realized: the new AUDIO_DURATION histogram (and the existing REQUEST_DURATION) both reuse _ASR_BUCKETS, whose ceiling is 30 s.

• AUDIO_DURATION is wired to _ASR_BUCKETS (max 30 s) instead of the long-duration set described in the PR, so multi-minute and multi-hour audio files still land in +Inf.
• REQUEST_DURATION was silently regressed from its previous 120 s ceiling to 30 s by the same shared bucket constant, breaking percentile accuracy for long batch requests.
• RTFX is a Gauge whose value is overwritten by the last concurrent request to complete, making it misleading under load.
• _get_audio_duration_from_bytes uses the stdlib wave module, so non-WAV uploads silently skip the AUDIO_DURATION observation."

Confidence Score: 3/5

The callback wiring and test updates are sound, but the core metric fix described in the PR is not actually applied — audio duration and request latency histograms both cap at 30 s.

Two histograms that are the explicit focus of this change — AUDIO_DURATION and REQUEST_DURATION — use _ASR_BUCKETS (30 s ceiling). Deploying as-is means multi-minute audio durations and long batch request latencies still spill into +Inf, and REQUEST_DURATION is actually worse than before this PR. The surrounding callback, timing, and OOM-detection logic is correct, but the bucket definitions need a fix before the change delivers its stated value.

backend/parakeet/main.py — the _ASR_BUCKETS constant and the histograms that share it (AUDIO_DURATION, REQUEST_DURATION, QUEUE_DURATION, INFERENCE_DURATION) need their bucket ranges reviewed against the actual workload durations.

Important Files Changed

Filename	Overview
backend/parakeet/main.py	Adds new Prometheus metrics and callback wiring, but AUDIO_DURATION and REQUEST_DURATION both use _ASR_BUCKETS (max 30 s), directly contradicting the PR's stated goal of 10-hour coverage.
backend/parakeet/batch_engine.py	Adds on_batch_complete and on_gpu_oom callbacks, records queue wait times and inference timing via WorkItem, and wires OOM detection in both exception handlers — logic looks correct.
backend/parakeet/gpu_worker.py	Adds inference_seconds field to WorkItem and times the _batch_transcribe call; submit now returns a (future, item) tuple — clean, minimal change with no issues found.
backend/tests/unit/test_parakeet_endpoints.py	Adds WAV helper, unit tests for _get_audio_duration_from_bytes, and a metrics endpoint check — solid addition.
backend/tests/unit/test_parakeet_batch_engine.py	Updates mock submit() helpers to return (fut, item) tuples and adds TestBatchEngineCallbacks covering on_batch_complete timing and OOM path — good coverage.
backend/tests/unit/test_parakeet_gpu_worker.py	Updates async submit tests to unpack the new (fut, item) tuple and asserts inference_seconds > 0 — straightforward and correct.

Sequence Diagram

sequenceDiagram
    participant Client
    participant main as main.py (endpoint)
    participant BE as BatchEngine
    participant GW as GPUWorker

    Client->>main: POST /v1/transcribe (audio bytes)
    main->>main: _get_audio_duration_from_bytes(data)
    main->>main: AUDIO_DURATION.observe(audio_dur)
    main->>BE: submit(audio_path)
    note over BE: records submitted_at
    BE->>GW: submit(payload, loop)
    GW->>GW: _batch_transcribe()
    GW->>GW: "item.inference_seconds = elapsed"
    GW-->>BE: future resolved
    BE->>BE: _on_batch_complete(queue_durations, inference_seconds, batch_size)
    BE->>main: QUEUE_DURATION.observe(qd)
    BE->>main: INFERENCE_DURATION.observe(inference_seconds)
    BE->>main: BATCH_SIZE_HIST.observe(batch_size)
    main->>main: REQUEST_DURATION.observe(elapsed)
    main->>main: RTFX.set(audio_dur / elapsed)
    main->>main: REQUESTS_TOTAL.inc()
    main-->>Client: JSON result

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[greptile-apps]

AUDIO_DURATION uses the wrong (30 s-max) bucket set

The PR title and description promise "10-hour audio duration histogram buckets" with an explicit list (1, 5, 10, 30, 60, 120, 300, 600, 1800, 3600, 7200, 18000, 36000), but AUDIO_DURATION is wired to _ASR_BUCKETS whose ceiling is 30 s. Any audio file longer than 30 s — the exact problem the PR is meant to fix — will fall into +Inf, leaving percentiles just as useless as before. A separate _AUDIO_BUCKETS tuple covering up to 10 h is needed here.

[greptile-apps]

REQUEST_DURATION bucket ceiling regressed from 120 s to 30 s

The old definition used buckets=[0.1, 0.25, 0.5, 1.0, 2.5, 5.0, 10.0, 30.0, 60.0, 120.0]. Replacing it with _ASR_BUCKETS (max 30 s) means batch requests on long audio files — the exact workload described in the PR — will spill into +Inf for REQUEST_DURATION too, defeating the whole intent. The original 120 s ceiling (or the full 10-hour set) should be kept for this histogram.

Suggested change

	REQUEST_DURATION = Histogram(
	'parakeet_request_duration_seconds',
	'Request latency',
	['endpoint'],
	buckets=[0.1, 0.25, 0.5, 1.0, 2.5, 5.0, 10.0, 30.0, 60.0, 120.0],
	buckets=_ASR_BUCKETS,
	)
	REQUEST_DURATION = Histogram(
	'parakeet_request_duration_seconds',
	'Request latency',
	['endpoint'],
	buckets=[0.1, 0.25, 0.5, 1.0, 2.5, 5.0, 10.0, 30.0, 60.0, 120.0],
	)

[greptile-apps]

RTFX Gauge is racy under concurrent requests

RTFX is a single Gauge; under concurrent requests the finally blocks in /v1/transcribe and /v2/transcribe both call RTFX.set(...) with their own audio_dur / elapsed value. The last writer wins, so the metric reflects an arbitrary in-flight request rather than a meaningful aggregate. A Histogram or Summary would give stable percentiles across all requests.

[greptile-apps]

_get_audio_duration_from_bytes silently skips non-WAV uploads

The function uses the standard-library wave module, which only parses PCM WAV. If callers upload MP3, FLAC, OGG, or any other format the call returns 0.0 and AUDIO_DURATION is never observed for that request. Given that batch endpoints are described as accepting "full audio files", non-WAV inputs could be common, and the metric would silently under-count.

[beastoin]

Closing — branch was not clean (had stale commits from merged PR #7960). Replaced with clean PR from fix/audio-duration-buckets.

[github-actions]

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