Remove processing metrics (ProcessingMetricsData)

Processing metrics were an early addition that predated a clear
understanding of what timing measurements matter in real-time pipelines.
They were inconsistently implemented across services, often broken, and
overlapped with the better-defined TTFB metric.

- Remove ProcessingMetricsData class and all start/stop_processing_metrics
  methods from FrameProcessorMetrics, FrameProcessor, and SentryMetrics
- Remove all processing metrics calls from 31 service files (LLM, TTS,
  STT, image, vision, realtime)
- Clean up empty _start_metrics() stubs left in STT services
- Remove processing metrics handling from RTVI, metrics log observer,
  pipeline task initial metrics, and strands agents framework
- Update tests and examples

Remaining metrics (TTFB, LLM token usage, TTS character usage, text
aggregation time) are well-defined and consistently implemented.
This commit is contained in:
Mark Backman
2026-02-26 18:20:49 -05:00
parent 7fe458fe59
commit 86c2dd5cfc
41 changed files with 13 additions and 270 deletions

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@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@ from pipecat.audio.vad.silero import SileroVADAnalyzer
from pipecat.frames.frames import Frame, LLMRunFrame, MetricsFrame
from pipecat.metrics.metrics import (
LLMUsageMetricsData,
ProcessingMetricsData,
TTFBMetricsData,
TTSUsageMetricsData,
)
@@ -46,8 +45,6 @@ class MetricsLogger(FrameProcessor):
for d in frame.data:
if isinstance(d, TTFBMetricsData):
print(f"!!! MetricsFrame: {frame}, ttfb: {d.value}")
elif isinstance(d, ProcessingMetricsData):
print(f"!!! MetricsFrame: {frame}, processing: {d.value}")
elif isinstance(d, LLMUsageMetricsData):
tokens = d.value
print(