diff --git a/docs/my-website/docs/exception_mapping.md b/docs/my-website/docs/exception_mapping.md
index db17fb093..2345e9f83 100644
--- a/docs/my-website/docs/exception_mapping.md
+++ b/docs/my-website/docs/exception_mapping.md
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ LiteLLM maps exceptions across all providers to their OpenAI counterparts.
 | >=500       | InternalServerError      |
 | N/A         | ContextWindowExceededError|
 | 400         | ContentPolicyViolationError|
-| N/A         | APIConnectionError       |
+| 500         | APIConnectionError       |
 
 
 Base case we return APIConnectionError
@@ -74,6 +74,28 @@ except Exception as e:
 
 ```
 
+## Usage - Should you retry exception? 
+
+```
+import litellm
+import openai
+
+try:
+    response = litellm.completion(
+                model="gpt-4",
+                messages=[
+                    {
+                        "role": "user",
+                        "content": "hello, write a 20 pageg essay"
+                    }
+                ],
+                timeout=0.01, # this will raise a timeout exception
+            )
+except openai.APITimeoutError as e:
+    should_retry = litellm._should_retry(e.status_code)
+    print(f"should_retry: {should_retry}")
+```
+
 ## Details 
 
 To see how it's implemented - [check out the code](https://github.com/BerriAI/litellm/blob/a42c197e5a6de56ea576c73715e6c7c6b19fa249/litellm/utils.py#L1217)
@@ -86,21 +108,34 @@ To see how it's implemented - [check out the code](https://github.com/BerriAI/li
 
 Base case - we return the original exception.
 
-|               | ContextWindowExceededError | AuthenticationError | InvalidRequestError | RateLimitError | ServiceUnavailableError |
-|---------------|----------------------------|---------------------|---------------------|---------------|-------------------------|
-| Anthropic     | ✅                          | ✅                   | ✅                   | ✅             |                         |
-| OpenAI        | ✅                          | ✅                     |✅                     |✅               |✅|
-| Azure OpenAI        | ✅                          | ✅                     |✅                     |✅               |✅|
-| Replicate     | ✅                          | ✅                   | ✅                   | ✅             | ✅                       |
-| Cohere        | ✅                          | ✅                   | ✅                    | ✅             | ✅                        |
-| Huggingface   | ✅                          | ✅                   | ✅                   | ✅             |                         |
-| Openrouter    | ✅                          | ✅                   | ✅                    | ✅             |                         |
-| AI21          | ✅                          | ✅                   | ✅                   | ✅             |                         |
-| VertexAI          |                           |                   |✅                   |             |                         |
-| Bedrock          |                           |                   |✅                   |             |                         |
-| Sagemaker          |                           |                   |✅                   |             |                         |
-| TogetherAI    | ✅                          | ✅                   | ✅                   | ✅             |                         |
-| AlephAlpha    | ✅                          | ✅                   | ✅                   | ✅             | ✅                        |
+| custom_llm_provider        | Timeout | ContextWindowExceededError | BadRequestError | NotFoundError | ContentPolicyViolationError | AuthenticationError | APIError | RateLimitError | ServiceUnavailableError | PermissionDeniedError | UnprocessableEntityError |
+|----------------------------|---------|----------------------------|------------------|---------------|-----------------------------|---------------------|----------|----------------|-------------------------|-----------------------|-------------------------|
+| openai                     | ✓       | ✓                          | ✓                |               | ✓                           | ✓                   |          |                |                         |                       |                           |
+| text-completion-openai     | ✓       | ✓                          | ✓                |               | ✓                           | ✓                   |          |                |                         |                       |                           |
+| custom_openai              | ✓       | ✓                          | ✓                |               | ✓                           | ✓                   |          |                |                         |                       |                           |
+| openai_compatible_providers| ✓       | ✓                          | ✓                |               | ✓                           | ✓                   |          |                |                         |                       |                           |
+| anthropic                  | ✓       | ✓                          | ✓                | ✓             |                             | ✓                   |          |                | ✓                       | ✓                     |                           |
+| replicate                  | ✓       | ✓                          | ✓                | ✓             |                             | ✓                   |          | ✓              | ✓                       |                       |                           |
+| bedrock                    | ✓       | ✓                          | ✓                | ✓             |                             | ✓                   |          | ✓              | ✓                       | ✓                     |                           |
+| sagemaker                  |         | ✓                          | ✓                |               |                             |                     |          |                |                         |                       |                           |
+| vertex_ai                  | ✓       |                            | ✓                |               |                             |                     | ✓        |                |                         |                       | ✓                         |
+| palm                       | ✓       | ✓                          |                  |               |                             |                     | ✓        |                |                         |                       |                           |
+| gemini                     | ✓       | ✓                          |                  |               |                             |                     | ✓        |                |                         |                       |                           |
+| cloudflare                 |         |                            | ✓                |               |                             | ✓                   |          |                |                         |                       |                           |
+| cohere                     |         | ✓                          | ✓                |               |                             | ✓                   |          |                | ✓                       |                       |                           |
+| cohere_chat                |         | ✓                          | ✓                |               |                             | ✓                   |          |                | ✓                       |                       |                           |
+| huggingface                | ✓       | ✓                          | ✓                |               |                             | ✓                   |          | ✓              | ✓                       |                       |                           |
+| ai21                       | ✓       | ✓                          | ✓                | ✓             |                             | ✓                   |          | ✓              |                         |                       |                           |
+| nlp_cloud                  | ✓       | ✓                          | ✓                |               |                             | ✓                   | ✓        | ✓              | ✓                       |                       |                           |
+| together_ai                | ✓       | ✓                          | ✓                |               |                             | ✓                   |          |                |                         |                       |                           |
+| aleph_alpha                |         |                            | ✓                |               |                             | ✓                   |          |                |                         |                       |                           |
+| ollama                     | ✓       |                            | ✓                |               |                             |                     |          |                | ✓                       |                       |                           |
+| ollama_chat                | ✓       |                            | ✓                |               |                             |                     |          |                | ✓                       |                       |                           |
+| vllm                       |         |                            |                  |               |                             | ✓                   | ✓        |                |                         |                       |                           |
+| azure                      | ✓       | ✓                          | ✓                | ✓             | ✓                           | ✓                   |          |                | ✓                       |                       |                           |
+
+- "✓" indicates that the specified `custom_llm_provider` can raise the corresponding exception.
+- Empty cells indicate the lack of association or that the provider does not raise that particular exception type as indicated by the function.
 
 
 > For a deeper understanding of these exceptions, you can check out [this](https://github.com/BerriAI/litellm/blob/d7e58d13bf9ba9edbab2ab2f096f3de7547f35fa/litellm/utils.py#L1544) implementation for additional insights.
diff --git a/litellm/utils.py b/litellm/utils.py
index acadb47e7..63684766b 100644
--- a/litellm/utils.py
+++ b/litellm/utils.py
@@ -8480,7 +8480,7 @@ def exception_type(
                     # 503 Getting metadata from plugin failed with error: Reauthentication is needed. Please run `gcloud auth application-default login` to reauthenticate.
                     exception_mapping_worked = True
                     raise BadRequestError(
-                        message=f"PalmException - Invalid api key",
+                        message=f"GeminiException - Invalid api key",
                         model=model,
                         llm_provider="palm",
                         response=original_exception.response,
@@ -8491,23 +8491,26 @@ def exception_type(
                 ):
                     exception_mapping_worked = True
                     raise Timeout(
-                        message=f"PalmException - {original_exception.message}",
+                        message=f"GeminiException - {original_exception.message}",
                         model=model,
                         llm_provider="palm",
                     )
                 if "400 Request payload size exceeds" in error_str:
                     exception_mapping_worked = True
                     raise ContextWindowExceededError(
-                        message=f"PalmException - {error_str}",
+                        message=f"GeminiException - {error_str}",
                         model=model,
                         llm_provider="palm",
                         response=original_exception.response,
                     )
-                if "500 An internal error has occurred." in error_str:
+                if (
+                    "500 An internal error has occurred." in error_str
+                    or "list index out of range" in error_str
+                ):
                     exception_mapping_worked = True
                     raise APIError(
                         status_code=getattr(original_exception, "status_code", 500),
-                        message=f"PalmException - {original_exception.message}",
+                        message=f"GeminiException - {original_exception.message}",
                         llm_provider="palm",
                         model=model,
                         request=original_exception.request,
@@ -8516,7 +8519,7 @@ def exception_type(
                     if original_exception.status_code == 400:
                         exception_mapping_worked = True
                         raise BadRequestError(
-                            message=f"PalmException - {error_str}",
+                            message=f"GeminiException - {error_str}",
                             model=model,
                             llm_provider="palm",
                             response=original_exception.response,