diff --git a/litellm/proxy/proxy_config.yaml b/litellm/proxy/proxy_config.yaml
index 8d499c1c0f3..a6b23a389c5 100644
--- a/litellm/proxy/proxy_config.yaml
+++ b/litellm/proxy/proxy_config.yaml
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ default_vertex_config:
 
 general_settings: 
   master_key: sk-1234
+  alerting: ["slack"]
 
 litellm_settings:
   fallbacks: [{"gemini-1.5-pro-001": ["gpt-4o"]}]