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.
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