This is the pitfall that cost me 3 hours at 2 AM. If you're running LiteLLM Proxy in production, it will hit you too — usually at the worst possible time.

What Happened

I run LiteLLM Proxy + New API in front of 18 provider channels. One night, I rotated an API key for a provider that had been flagged for unusual spending.

Standard procedure:

Generate new key in provider dashboard