ollama-llmwatch Review: Live Prefill Progress Monitoring for Ollama
ollama-llmwatch is a free, MIT-licensed Python terminal monitor that tails Ollama’s own server log and turns it into a live prefill board: tok/s sparklines, prompt-cache reuse percentage, time-to-first-token, a progress bar with ETA, and plain-language diagnostic hints. It never calls the Ollama API and adds zero inference overhead. What Is ollama-llmwatch and Why Does Ollama Model Monitoring Need It? Most Ollama monitoring tools watch the wrong layer. They scrape an API response, count tokens after the fact, or read a Prometheus endpoint that may not exist. None of them can tell you what is happening during prefill — the window where your prompt is being read and nothing at all is being emitted. ...