diff --git a/docs/my-website/docs/proxy/alerting.md b/docs/my-website/docs/proxy/alerting.md
index 3ef676bbd6..402de410c9 100644
--- a/docs/my-website/docs/proxy/alerting.md
+++ b/docs/my-website/docs/proxy/alerting.md
@@ -62,6 +62,23 @@ curl -X GET 'http://localhost:4000/health/services?service=slack' \
   -H 'Authorization: Bearer sk-1234'
 ```
 
+## Advanced - Redacting Messages from Alerts
+
+By default alerts show the `messages/input` passed to the LLM. If you want to redact this from slack alerting set the following setting on your config
+
+
+```shell
+general_settings:
+  alerting: ["slack"]
+  alert_types: ["spend_reports"] 
+
+litellm_settings:
+  redact_messages_in_exceptions: True
+```
+
+
+
+
 ## Advanced - Opting into specific alert types
 
 Set `alert_types` if you want to Opt into only specific alert types
diff --git a/litellm/__init__.py b/litellm/__init__.py
index ba30366744..b6e6d97dc8 100644
--- a/litellm/__init__.py
+++ b/litellm/__init__.py
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ _async_failure_callback: List[Callable] = (
 pre_call_rules: List[Callable] = []
 post_call_rules: List[Callable] = []
 turn_off_message_logging: Optional[bool] = False
+redact_messages_in_exceptions: Optional[bool] = False
 store_audit_logs = False  # Enterprise feature, allow users to see audit logs
 ## end of callbacks #############
 
diff --git a/litellm/integrations/slack_alerting.py b/litellm/integrations/slack_alerting.py
index c98d60f1fd..21415fb6d6 100644
--- a/litellm/integrations/slack_alerting.py
+++ b/litellm/integrations/slack_alerting.py
@@ -326,8 +326,8 @@ class SlackAlerting(CustomLogger):
                 end_time=end_time,
             )
         )
-        if litellm.turn_off_message_logging:
-            messages = "Message not logged. `litellm.turn_off_message_logging=True`."
+        if litellm.turn_off_message_logging or litellm.redact_messages_in_exceptions:
+            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`"
         if time_difference_float > self.alerting_threshold:
@@ -567,9 +567,12 @@ class SlackAlerting(CustomLogger):
             except:
                 messages = ""
 
-            if litellm.turn_off_message_logging:
+            if (
+                litellm.turn_off_message_logging
+                or litellm.redact_messages_in_exceptions
+            ):
                 messages = (
-                    "Message not logged. `litellm.turn_off_message_logging=True`."
+                    "Message not logged. litellm.redact_messages_in_exceptions=True"
                 )
             request_info = f"\nRequest Model: `{model}`\nMessages: `{messages}`"
         else:
diff --git a/litellm/proxy/proxy_config.yaml b/litellm/proxy/proxy_config.yaml
index 2f2d8545dd..df6dfd1394 100644
--- a/litellm/proxy/proxy_config.yaml
+++ b/litellm/proxy/proxy_config.yaml
@@ -21,10 +21,14 @@ model_list:
 
 general_settings:
   master_key: sk-1234
+  alerting: ["slack"]
+
+litellm_settings:
+  callbacks: ["otel"]
+  store_audit_logs: true
+  redact_messages_in_exceptions: True
   enforced_params:  
     - user
     - metadata
     - metadata.generation_name
 
-litellm_settings:
-  store_audit_logs: true
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/litellm/utils.py b/litellm/utils.py
index 955bcd3e96..ae5879f07f 100644
--- a/litellm/utils.py
+++ b/litellm/utils.py
@@ -8541,7 +8541,11 @@ def exception_type(
                 extra_information = f"\nModel: {model}"
                 if _api_base:
                     extra_information += f"\nAPI Base: `{_api_base}`"
-                if messages and len(messages) > 0:
+                if (
+                    messages
+                    and len(messages) > 0
+                    and litellm.redact_messages_in_exceptions is False
+                ):
                     extra_information += f"\nMessages: `{messages}`"
 
                 if _model_group is not None: