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







