diff --git a/litellm/router_utils/pre_call_checks/encrypted_content_affinity_check.py b/litellm/router_utils/pre_call_checks/encrypted_content_affinity_check.py
index 9cab59ea0e0..d632dc6e0b0 100644
--- a/litellm/router_utils/pre_call_checks/encrypted_content_affinity_check.py
+++ b/litellm/router_utils/pre_call_checks/encrypted_content_affinity_check.py
@@ -263,7 +263,7 @@ class EncryptedContentAffinityCheck(CustomLogger):
                 ] = True
                 return [deployment]
 
-            verbose_router_logger.debug(
+            verbose_router_logger.error(
                 "EncryptedContentAffinityCheck: cached deployment=%s for item_id=%s "
                 "not found in healthy_deployments",
                 cached_model_id,