fix(metrics): attribute fallback calls to each candidate

[nachiketb-nvidia]

What

Record answer-call and compatibility metrics for each completion candidate, using that candidate's model and duration. A failed weak call followed by a successful strong call now produces two routed calls, one weak error, and one strong success. Responses already supplied by an algorithm remain counted once.

Why

Fixes SWITCH-1504. Metrics previously recorded the whole fallback sequence as a successful call to the initially selected model.

Notes for reviewers

17 added production lines. Extends the existing context-fallback/affinity test; no new test functions. Routing selection and session affinity retain their existing behavior.

The regression failed on unchanged main because the weak error count stayed at zero. It now verifies the weak failure, strong success, total request/error counts, and per-candidate call labels. The reported attribution bug is no longer reproduced.

Validation after rebasing onto main (5a50ef211):

• cargo test -p switchyard-llm-client --locked --test observability affinity_keeps_the_algorithm_selection_after_client_fallback -- --exact
• cargo test -p switchyard-llm-client --locked --test observability classifier_metrics_count_routing_and_answer_calls_once -- --exact
• cargo test -p switchyard-llm-client --locked --lib fallback (4 passed)
• cargo test -p switchyard-server --locked --test server streaming_error_records_error_without_usage_or_latency -- --exact
• cargo test -p switchyard-server --locked --test server streaming_success_records_only_final_usage_and_one_latency -- --exact
• cargo fmt --all --check, cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets --locked -- -D warnings, and git diff --check origin/main...HEAD

All checks passed. No full test suite or live provider calls were run.

The rebase preserves #772's stream-outcome accounting by observing each completion candidate separately. Algorithm-supplied answers remain counted once. The fallback attribution bug is no longer reproducible in the regression test, and the stream success/error controls pass.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes

  • Improved request and response tracking to distinguish routed responses from completion responses.
  • Prevented buffered routing calls from being incorrectly counted as completed answers.
  • Corrected model usage and fallback reporting when a preferred model fails.

• Observability

  • Improved accuracy of request, error, duration, and model-outcome metrics, providing more reliable service monitoring.

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Walkthrough

The client separates routing and completion metrics based on response state and buffering. The observability test captures baseline metrics and verifies per-model, aggregate, and LLM call outcomes during affinity fallback.

Changes

LLM observability

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Metric recording flow crates/libsy-llm-client/src/run.rs	run records metrics for existing routing responses without answer duration. call_one records answer-call and routed-request metrics only for non-buffered calls.
Fallback metric validation crates/libsy-llm-client/tests/observability.rs	The affinity fallback test compares metrics with a pre-run snapshot and verifies model-specific counters, aggregate totals, and LLM call outcomes.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to d2722

Failed routing attempts are absent from request and error metrics, so fallback reliability monitoring underreports failures. Record buffered failures before merging.

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Buffered paths stay out of the hall
Weak models mark an error clear
Strong fallbacks succeed here
Baselines guide the metrics bright
And answers land in measured light}

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Inline comments:
In `@crates/libsy-llm-client/src/run.rs`:
- Around line 321-324: Update the metrics branch in call_one so failed buffered
calls still invoke record_routed_request with no duration, while buffered
answer-call metrics remain excluded. Preserve the existing unbuffered metrics
behavior, and add a regression test covering the buffered failure path and its
routing error counters.

In `@crates/libsy-llm-client/tests/observability.rs`:
- Line 800: Add a concise comment immediately before the metric assertions
following the flushed_metrics call, explaining that the fallback records one
failed weak-model request and one successful strong-model request. Keep the test
logic unchanged.

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