The #3 Production Killer in Your LiteLLM Setup: Key Cache Invalidation (and How to Fix It) (opens in new tab)

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 Update config.yaml with new key Run litellm --config config.yaml --reload The reload succeeded. No errors. The con...