diff --git a/litellm/tests/test_alerting.py b/litellm/tests/test_alerting.py
index 9dfec3dcfa..0cbf6cb6d3 100644
--- a/litellm/tests/test_alerting.py
+++ b/litellm/tests/test_alerting.py
@@ -25,6 +25,9 @@ import pytest
 from litellm.router import AlertingConfig, Router
 from litellm.proxy._types import CallInfo
 from openai import APIError
+from litellm.router import AlertingConfig
+import litellm
+import os
 
 
 @pytest.mark.parametrize(
@@ -743,3 +746,37 @@ async def test_region_outage_alerting_called(
             mock_send_alert.assert_called_once()
         else:
             mock_send_alert.assert_not_called()
+
+
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+@pytest.mark.skip(reason="test only needs to run locally ")
+async def test_alerting():
+    router = litellm.Router(
+        model_list=[
+            {
+                "model_name": "gpt-3.5-turbo",
+                "litellm_params": {
+                    "model": "gpt-3.5-turbo",
+                    "api_key": "bad_key",
+                },
+            }
+        ],
+        debug_level="DEBUG",
+        set_verbose=True,
+        alerting_config=AlertingConfig(
+            alerting_threshold=10,  # threshold for slow / hanging llm responses (in seconds). Defaults to 300 seconds
+            webhook_url=os.getenv(
+                "SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL"
+            ),  # webhook you want to send alerts to
+        ),
+    )
+    try:
+        await router.acompletion(
+            model="gpt-3.5-turbo",
+            messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hey, how's it going?"}],
+        )
+
+    except:
+        pass
+    finally:
+        await asyncio.sleep(3)