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+
+## 2024-05-24 - [Optimize RequestMetrics.to_dict serialization]
+**Learning:** `dataclasses.asdict` does deep copies, which incurs significant overhead for frequently serialized dataclasses like `RequestMetrics` in a hotpath like the API server.
+**Action:** Use manual `__slots__` iteration with `getattr` for faster serialization when the dataclass structure is mostly primitives, while only falling back to `asdict` for nested dataclasses lacking slots (like `SpeculateMetrics`).
diff --git a/fastdeploy/engine/request.py b/fastdeploy/engine/request.py
index 8413ccb7dd3..5fc4ca5f467 100644
--- a/fastdeploy/engine/request.py
+++ b/fastdeploy/engine/request.py
@@ -894,7 +894,14 @@ def to_dict(self):
         """
         Convert the RequestMetrics object to a dictionary.
         """
-        return {k: v for k, v in asdict(self).items()}
+        res = {}
+        for key in self.__dataclass_fields__:
+            v = getattr(self, key)
+            if v is not None and hasattr(v, "__dataclass_fields__"):
+                res[key] = asdict(v)
+            else:
+                res[key] = v
+        return res
 
     def record_recv_first_token(self):
         cur_time = time.time()