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Included review availability: Your plan provides up to 12 included reviews per hour; 10 remain after this review. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe PR adds k6 load tests for LLM gateway health and inference endpoints. It adds shared request, routing, classification, metric, and threshold utilities, workload configurations, and usage documentation. ChangesLLM gateway load tests
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The PR adds gateway load-test coverage, but current test-result handling and documentation can still produce misleading outcomes, describe regional targeting inaccurately, and encourage bearer-token use with certificate validation disabled. The change is mergeable with explicit owner awareness and follow-up on these bounded issues. Suggested reviewers: Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
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In `@examples/load-tests/llm-gateway/lib/common.js`:
- Around line 23-25: Replace the hardcoded gateway URLs in the regional endpoint
configuration with values read from corresponding environment variables,
including the anycast and both regional entries. Preserve the existing region
keys and endpoint lookup behavior.
- Line 50: Update the regional LLM gateway request configuration around the
LLM_GATEWAY_URL and region check so authenticated regional requests always use
certificate verification. Configure trusted certificates for each regional
hostname or route through a verified endpoint, and do not disable TLS
verification for bearer-authenticated traffic.
- Line 35: Update the LLM_GATEWAY_URL parsing and validation flow to reject any
parsed URL whose protocol is not https: before returning it, preventing insecure
HTTP overrides while preserving valid HTTPS configuration behavior.
- Around line 94-95: Add threshold enforcement for unexpected status and
response-shape check failures in the load-test configuration alongside the
existing gateway_5xx and http_req_duration thresholds. Update the relevant
check/metric definitions in common.js so 401s, unrelated 404s, and invalid 200
bodies fail the run, while 429 and recognized no_eligible_candidates responses
remain non-gating.
In `@examples/load-tests/llm-gateway/responses_test.js`:
- Line 55: Update the response validation expression to require both output
fields to be non-null as well as defined, so null values for output or
output_text are rejected while valid values remain accepted.
In `@examples/load-tests/README.md`:
- Line 56: Update the regional-targeting statement in the load-tests README to
accurately state that the shared gateway configuration supports pinning a
specific region through LLM_REGION, rather than claiming the llm-gateway tests
do not support it.
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In `@examples/load-tests/llm-gateway/README.md`:
- Line 23: Update the README text to use the compound form “speech-to-speech”
wherever the referenced phrase appears, without changing the surrounding
wording.
- Around line 101-103: Update the direct-ingress guidance in the README to
require a certificate-valid hostname and remove the recommendation to set
LLM_INSECURE_SKIP_TLS_VERIFY=true. If insecure TLS remains documented for
isolated testing, explicitly require disposable credentials and a trusted
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Apply the same fix in `@examples/load-tests/llm-gateway/lib/common.js` at line 37.
- Around line 42-43: Update baseUrl() and the LLM_GATEWAY_URL documentation to
reject and describe non-HTTPS gateway URLs, ensuring params() never sends the
TOKEN Authorization header over HTTP.
Apply the same fix in `@examples/load-tests/llm-gateway/lib/common.js` at line 31.
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The k6 tests under examples/load-tests target NVCF function endpoints directly, so the OpenAI-compatible gateway, the request router, and the router client sidecar on the worker have no load coverage. These scripts hit the gateway the way a customer does, exercising that whole path. One script per registered gateway route: chat completions (streaming and non-streaming), responses, embeddings, and the health endpoints. The gateway is selected by URL rather than hardcoded, and every metric is labelled with the target. When a published gateway name is backed by anycast routing the serving deployment is chosen by client location, so a single URL cannot show which deployment needs capacity. Every non-200 increments http_errors tagged with its status code. An earlier revision special-cased particular failures, which broke as soon as the gateway changed which code it returns for a given condition. Recording the code keeps the script useful as behaviour moves. The request timeout defaults well above the k6 default of 60 seconds, so a queued request under load is recorded as slow rather than failed. Verified against a live deployment: all five scripts pass, and a ramp to 2000 requests per second sustained p95 latency of 137 ms. Closes #1426 Signed-off-by: Max Xing <mxing@nvidia.com>
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In `@examples/load-tests/llm-gateway/README.md`:
- Line 123: Update the fenced code block near the shell command in the README to
declare the bash language using a bash fence, while preserving the command
content and surrounding documentation.
- Line 12: Update the script-to-endpoint description in the README to state that
scripts are grouped by endpoint and workflow, reflecting the separate streaming
and non-streaming chat scripts and the shared health script across three
endpoints.
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Load test resultsRan these scripts against NVIDIA-managed staging to validate them and to characterise the gateway path. Environment
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Only Error onset by request rate, measured on
The path is clean below roughly 500 requests per second. Failures begin appearing consistently above roughly 1000 requests per second. No capacity ceiling was reached. Every run sustained the full 2000 requests per second target, and the load generator was the limiting factor rather than the service. |
Require https for LLM_GATEWAY_URL. The bearer token is attached to every request, so a plaintext URL would put a credential on the wire. Add a threshold on the check pass rate. Previously only HTTP-layer failures and latency were gated, so a 200 carrying a malformed body failed a check without failing the run. Fix the responses output check. Comparing against undefined alone let a null output pass. Correct the README claim that there is one script per endpoint. Chat completions has separate streaming and non-streaming scripts, and one script covers three health endpoints. Also hyphenate speech-to-speech and label a fenced block. Closes #1426 Signed-off-by: Max Xing <mxing@nvidia.com>
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103-105: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟠 MajorSecurity Misconfiguration (CWE-295): Improper Certificate Validation
Reachability: External · Exploitability: Moderate
Do not recommend disabling certificate validation.
Line 104 instructs operators to set
LLM_INSECURE_SKIP_TLS_VERIFY=truewhen the ingress certificate does not match. This can bypass certificate validation on requests that carryTOKEN. A network attacker can then impersonate the gateway and capture the bearer token. Document a certificate-valid hostname instead. If insecure mode remains necessary for isolated testing, require disposable credentials and a trusted network.Verify that this flag disables certificate validation for the same requests that include the
Authorizationheader:#!/bin/bash set -eu rg -n -C 5 \ 'LLM_INSECURE_SKIP_TLS_VERIFY|insecureSkipTLSVerify|skipTLSVerify|Authorization|TOKEN' \ examples/load-tests/llm-gateway --glob '*.js'🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@examples/load-tests/llm-gateway/lib/common.js`:
- Around line 32-34: Update the request parameters returned by params() to set
redirects to 0 before authenticated requests send the bearer token, preventing
automatic redirect handling while preserving the existing HTTPS URL validation.
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In `@examples/load-tests/llm-gateway/README.md`:
- Around line 103-105: The README guidance around direct ingress access must not
recommend disabling TLS certificate validation for requests carrying TOKEN or
Authorization credentials. Replace the insecure-mode recommendation with a
certificate-valid hostname, or clearly restrict any exceptional isolated-testing
guidance to disposable credentials and a trusted network; update the surrounding
LLM gateway instructions accordingly.
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Go preserves the Authorization header across a same-host redirect, including an https to http downgrade, so following one could put the bearer token on the wire in cleartext. Following a redirect also hides it. A 3xx from this gateway is a finding, so it should surface as a non-200 and be counted by status rather than chased transparently. Closes #1426 Signed-off-by: Max Xing <mxing@nvidia.com>
Load test results, us-east-1Same scripts and profile as the us-west-2 run above, against the other staging region. Environment
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Failure rate by request rate,
The two regions are broadly equivalent overall. Total failures per run are comparable, and The us-east-1 low-rate figure is concentrated at the start of the run. The first failure Latency is higher here across every endpoint, which is expected. The only worker is in No capacity ceiling was reached. Every run sustained the full 2000 requests per second target. Each endpoint was run once in this region, so treat the figures as indicative. On us-west-2 two identical chat completions runs differed by 46 percent. Note on the health control: k6 reported 3,124 failures, but CloudWatch recorded zero server-side errors and about 3,150 fewer requests than k6 sent. Those requests never left the load generator. The health run drives three requests per iteration, roughly 6,000 per second, and ran last in the sequence. Server side, the health endpoints were clean. |
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Why
The k6 tests under
examples/load-teststarget NVCF function endpoints directly. None of them exercise the OpenAI-compatible LLM API gateway, so the gateway, the request router, and the router client sidecar on the worker have no load coverage. This adds tests that hit the gateway the way a customer does, so a run traverses that whole path.What changed
New
examples/load-tests/llm-gateway/with one script per registered gateway route.chat_completions_test.jsPOST /v1/chat/completionschat_completions_stream_test.jsPOST /v1/chat/completionswithstream: trueresponses_test.jsPOST /v1/responsesembeddings_test.jsPOST /v1/embeddingsgateway_health_test.jsGET /healthz,/readyz,/infoThose are the only routes the gateway registers. The audio and speech to speech handlers exist in the source but are not wired into a route, so they are not covered.
Shared logic lives in
lib/common.js: target resolution, payload headers, request timeout, and custom metrics. Two configs are included, a smoke config and a ramping arrival rate config.Three decisions worth reviewing:
LLM_GATEWAY_URLand every metric is labelled viaLLM_REGION. When a published gateway name is backed by anycast routing, the serving deployment is chosen by client location, so one URL cannot show which deployment needs capacity. The README separates client location from serving location, because exercising several client locations does not exercise the matching serving deployments.http_errorstagged with its status code. An earlier revision special-cased particular failures, including a counter keyed on 404 plus an error string. That broke immediately in testing: the gateway surfaces router candidate loss as 503, so the counter read zero while the condition was occurring. Recording the code keeps the script useful as behaviour moves. Thresholds gate on overall failure rate and p95 latency, so hitting the rate limiter does not abort a ramp.supreme_http_test.jsraises its timeout for the same reason.Payloads are built with
JSON.stringify, matchingsupreme_http_test.js. The existingoai_compatible_llm_load_test.jsbuilds its payload with a template literal that emits invalid JSON (unquoted model value and two trailing commas). That is not fixed here to keep this change scoped.Customer Release Notes
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Usage
Run from
examples/load-tests, since scripts importlib/common.jsby relative path.Testing
Run against a live deployment. All five scripts pass with every check green, including
/v1/responsesand/v1/embeddings. Targeting an ingress directly withLLM_INSECURE_SKIP_TLS_VERIFY=trueworks, and omittingLLM_GATEWAY_URLfails with a clear message.Load behaviour was exercised with
chat_completions_test.jsagainst a single region: a 9 minute ramp to 50 requests per second (21,299 requests), then a 5 minute ramp to 2000 requests per second (283,210 requests). p95 latency went from 105 ms to 137 ms across that range with no capacity ceiling reached, which also confirms the timeout and threshold choices behave sensibly under real load.These files are themselves tests, so no separate unit tests are added. No QA needed.
Notes
The README states that a function deployed with
maxInstances: 1andmaxRequestConcurrency: 1caps throughput well below the breakpoint ramp, so the deployment needs scaling before results are meaningful. The existing load tests do not document this either.The streaming script reports time to last token. k6 buffers the whole event stream, so time to first token would need a k6 binary built with xk6-sse.
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Closes #1426
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