diff --git a/litellm/proxy/utils.py b/litellm/proxy/utils.py
index 071b882d22..954d2496ea 100644
--- a/litellm/proxy/utils.py
+++ b/litellm/proxy/utils.py
@@ -330,13 +330,13 @@ class ProxyLogging:
                 elif request_data.get("metadata", None) is not None and isinstance(
                     request_data["metadata"], dict
                 ):
-                    # In hanging requests sometime it has not made it to the point where the deployment has been set
+                    # 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"]
                     _api_base = _metadata.get("api_base", "")
                     if _api_base is None:
                         _api_base = ""
-                    request_info += f"\nAPI Base: {_api_base}"
+                    request_info += f"\nAPI Base: `{_api_base}`"
                 # only alert hanging responses if they have not been marked as success
                 alerting_message = (
                     f"`Requests are hanging - {self.alerting_threshold}s+ request time`"