diff --git a/litellm/integrations/slack_alerting.py b/litellm/integrations/slack_alerting.py
index 21415fb6d6..2c558af07b 100644
--- a/litellm/integrations/slack_alerting.py
+++ b/litellm/integrations/slack_alerting.py
@@ -330,6 +330,7 @@ class SlackAlerting(CustomLogger):
             messages = "Message not logged. litellm.redact_messages_in_exceptions=True"
         request_info = f"\nRequest Model: `{model}`\nAPI Base: `{api_base}`\nMessages: `{messages}`"
         slow_message = f"`Responses are slow - {round(time_difference_float,2)}s response time > Alerting threshold: {self.alerting_threshold}s`"
+        alerting_metadata: dict = {}
         if time_difference_float > self.alerting_threshold:
             # add deployment latencies to alert
             if (
@@ -337,7 +338,7 @@ class SlackAlerting(CustomLogger):
                 and "litellm_params" in kwargs
                 and "metadata" in kwargs["litellm_params"]
             ):
-                _metadata = kwargs["litellm_params"]["metadata"]
+                _metadata: dict = kwargs["litellm_params"]["metadata"]
                 request_info = litellm.utils._add_key_name_and_team_to_alert(
                     request_info=request_info, metadata=_metadata
                 )
@@ -349,10 +350,14 @@ class SlackAlerting(CustomLogger):
                     request_info += (
                         f"\nAvailable Deployment Latencies\n{_deployment_latency_map}"
                     )
+
+                if "alerting_metadata" in _metadata:
+                    alerting_metadata = _metadata["alerting_metadata"]
             await self.send_alert(
                 message=slow_message + request_info,
                 level="Low",
                 alert_type="llm_too_slow",
+                alerting_metadata=alerting_metadata,
             )
 
     async def async_update_daily_reports(
@@ -540,7 +545,12 @@ class SlackAlerting(CustomLogger):
         message += f"\n\nNext Run is at: `{time.time() + self.alerting_args.daily_report_frequency}`s"
 
         # send alert
-        await self.send_alert(message=message, level="Low", alert_type="daily_reports")
+        await self.send_alert(
+            message=message,
+            level="Low",
+            alert_type="daily_reports",
+            alerting_metadata={},
+        )
 
         return True
 
@@ -582,6 +592,7 @@ class SlackAlerting(CustomLogger):
             await asyncio.sleep(
                 self.alerting_threshold
             )  # Set it to 5 minutes - i'd imagine this might be different for streaming, non-streaming, non-completion (embedding + img) requests
+            alerting_metadata: dict = {}
             if (
                 request_data is not None
                 and request_data.get("litellm_status", "") != "success"
@@ -606,7 +617,7 @@ class SlackAlerting(CustomLogger):
                 ):
                     # In hanging requests sometime it has not made it to the point where the deployment is passed to the `request_data``
                     # in that case we fallback to the api base set in the request metadata
-                    _metadata = request_data["metadata"]
+                    _metadata: dict = request_data["metadata"]
                     _api_base = _metadata.get("api_base", "")
 
                     request_info = litellm.utils._add_key_name_and_team_to_alert(
@@ -615,6 +626,9 @@ class SlackAlerting(CustomLogger):
 
                     if _api_base is None:
                         _api_base = ""
+
+                    if "alerting_metadata" in _metadata:
+                        alerting_metadata = _metadata["alerting_metadata"]
                     request_info += f"\nAPI Base: `{_api_base}`"
                 # only alert hanging responses if they have not been marked as success
                 alerting_message = (
@@ -640,6 +654,7 @@ class SlackAlerting(CustomLogger):
                     message=alerting_message + request_info,
                     level="Medium",
                     alert_type="llm_requests_hanging",
+                    alerting_metadata=alerting_metadata,
                 )
 
     async def failed_tracking_alert(self, error_message: str):
@@ -650,7 +665,10 @@ class SlackAlerting(CustomLogger):
         result = await _cache.async_get_cache(key=_cache_key)
         if result is None:
             await self.send_alert(
-                message=message, level="High", alert_type="budget_alerts"
+                message=message,
+                level="High",
+                alert_type="budget_alerts",
+                alerting_metadata={},
             )
             await _cache.async_set_cache(
                 key=_cache_key,
@@ -751,6 +769,7 @@ class SlackAlerting(CustomLogger):
                     level="High",
                     alert_type="budget_alerts",
                     user_info=webhook_event,
+                    alerting_metadata={},
                 )
                 await _cache.async_set_cache(
                     key=_cache_key,
@@ -941,7 +960,10 @@ class SlackAlerting(CustomLogger):
             )
             # send minor alert
             await self.send_alert(
-                message=msg, level="Medium", alert_type="outage_alerts"
+                message=msg,
+                level="Medium",
+                alert_type="outage_alerts",
+                alerting_metadata={},
             )
             # set to true
             outage_value["minor_alert_sent"] = True
@@ -963,7 +985,12 @@ class SlackAlerting(CustomLogger):
             )
 
             # send minor alert
-            await self.send_alert(message=msg, level="High", alert_type="outage_alerts")
+            await self.send_alert(
+                message=msg,
+                level="High",
+                alert_type="outage_alerts",
+                alerting_metadata={},
+            )
             # set to true
             outage_value["major_alert_sent"] = True
 
@@ -1062,7 +1089,10 @@ class SlackAlerting(CustomLogger):
                 )
                 # send minor alert
                 await self.send_alert(
-                    message=msg, level="Medium", alert_type="outage_alerts"
+                    message=msg,
+                    level="Medium",
+                    alert_type="outage_alerts",
+                    alerting_metadata={},
                 )
                 # set to true
                 outage_value["minor_alert_sent"] = True
@@ -1081,7 +1111,10 @@ class SlackAlerting(CustomLogger):
                 )
                 # send minor alert
                 await self.send_alert(
-                    message=msg, level="High", alert_type="outage_alerts"
+                    message=msg,
+                    level="High",
+                    alert_type="outage_alerts",
+                    alerting_metadata={},
                 )
                 # set to true
                 outage_value["major_alert_sent"] = True
@@ -1143,7 +1176,10 @@ Model Info:
 """
 
         alert_val = self.send_alert(
-            message=message, level="Low", alert_type="new_model_added"
+            message=message,
+            level="Low",
+            alert_type="new_model_added",
+            alerting_metadata={},
         )
 
         if alert_val is not None and asyncio.iscoroutine(alert_val):
@@ -1368,6 +1404,7 @@ Model Info:
         message: str,
         level: Literal["Low", "Medium", "High"],
         alert_type: Literal[AlertType],
+        alerting_metadata: dict,
         user_info: Optional[WebhookEvent] = None,
         **kwargs,
     ):
@@ -1425,6 +1462,9 @@ Model Info:
         if kwargs:
             for key, value in kwargs.items():
                 formatted_message += f"\n\n{key}: `{value}`\n\n"
+        if alerting_metadata:
+            for key, value in alerting_metadata.items():
+                formatted_message += f"\n\n*Alerting Metadata*: \n{key}: `{value}`\n\n"
         if _proxy_base_url is not None:
             formatted_message += f"\n\nProxy URL: `{_proxy_base_url}`"
 
@@ -1622,6 +1662,7 @@ Model Info:
                 message=_weekly_spend_message,
                 level="Low",
                 alert_type="spend_reports",
+                alerting_metadata={},
             )
         except Exception as e:
             verbose_proxy_logger.error("Error sending weekly spend report", e)
@@ -1673,6 +1714,7 @@ Model Info:
                 message=_spend_message,
                 level="Low",
                 alert_type="spend_reports",
+                alerting_metadata={},
             )
         except Exception as e:
             verbose_proxy_logger.error("Error sending weekly spend report", e)
diff --git a/litellm/proxy/_super_secret_config.yaml b/litellm/proxy/_super_secret_config.yaml
index 5504d7a61c..15b8bc93e6 100644
--- a/litellm/proxy/_super_secret_config.yaml
+++ b/litellm/proxy/_super_secret_config.yaml
@@ -79,8 +79,8 @@ litellm_settings:
   failure_callback: ["langfuse"]
   cache: true
 
-# general_settings:
-#   alerting: ["email"]
+general_settings:
+  alerting: ["slack"]
 #   key_management_system: "aws_kms"
 #   key_management_settings:
 #     hosted_keys: ["LITELLM_MASTER_KEY"]
diff --git a/litellm/proxy/utils.py b/litellm/proxy/utils.py
index ebe30789d7..7741e5382a 100644
--- a/litellm/proxy/utils.py
+++ b/litellm/proxy/utils.py
@@ -455,6 +455,7 @@ class ProxyLogging:
             formatted_message += f"\n\nProxy URL: `{_proxy_base_url}`"
 
         extra_kwargs = {}
+        alerting_metadata = {}
         if request_data is not None:
             _url = self.slack_alerting_instance._add_langfuse_trace_id_to_alert(
                 request_data=request_data
@@ -462,7 +463,12 @@ class ProxyLogging:
             if _url is not None:
                 extra_kwargs["🪢 Langfuse Trace"] = _url
                 formatted_message += "\n\n🪢 Langfuse Trace: {}".format(_url)
-
+            if (
+                "metadata" in request_data
+                and request_data["metadata"].get("alerting_metadata", None) is not None
+                and isinstance(request_data["metadata"]["alerting_metadata"], dict)
+            ):
+                alerting_metadata = request_data["metadata"]["alerting_metadata"]
         for client in self.alerting:
             if client == "slack":
                 await self.slack_alerting_instance.send_alert(
@@ -470,6 +476,7 @@ class ProxyLogging:
                     level=level,
                     alert_type=alert_type,
                     user_info=None,
+                    alerting_metadata=alerting_metadata,
                     **extra_kwargs,
                 )
             elif client == "sentry":
@@ -510,7 +517,7 @@ class ProxyLogging:
         )
 
         if hasattr(self, "service_logging_obj"):
-            self.service_logging_obj.async_service_failure_hook(
+            await self.service_logging_obj.async_service_failure_hook(
                 service=ServiceTypes.DB,
                 duration=duration,
                 error=error_message,
diff --git a/litellm/tests/test_alerting.py b/litellm/tests/test_alerting.py
index 9dfec3dcfa..47d9ddefc8 100644
--- a/litellm/tests/test_alerting.py
+++ b/litellm/tests/test_alerting.py
@@ -159,6 +159,29 @@ async def test_response_taking_too_long_callback(slack_alerting):
         mock_send_alert.assert_awaited_once()
 
 
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_alerting_metadata(slack_alerting):
+    """
+    Test alerting_metadata is propogated correctly for response taking too long
+    """
+    start_time = datetime.now()
+    end_time = start_time + timedelta(seconds=301)
+    kwargs = {
+        "model": "test_model",
+        "messages": "test_messages",
+        "litellm_params": {"metadata": {"alerting_metadata": {"hello": "world"}}},
+    }
+    with patch.object(slack_alerting, "send_alert", new=AsyncMock()) as mock_send_alert:
+
+        ## RESPONSE TAKING TOO LONG
+        await slack_alerting.response_taking_too_long_callback(
+            kwargs, None, start_time, end_time
+        )
+        mock_send_alert.assert_awaited_once()
+
+        assert "hello" in mock_send_alert.call_args[1]["alerting_metadata"]
+
+
 # Test for budget crossed
 @pytest.mark.asyncio
 async def test_budget_alerts_crossed(slack_alerting):