From 80d8bf5d8f954b357d695fe77975764ffcf735e3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ishaan Jaff <ishaanjaffer0324@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2024 12:02:19 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] fix raise better error message on reaching failed vertex
 import

---
 litellm/llms/vertex_ai.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/litellm/llms/vertex_ai.py b/litellm/llms/vertex_ai.py
index 1dbd93048d3..4a4abaef402 100644
--- a/litellm/llms/vertex_ai.py
+++ b/litellm/llms/vertex_ai.py
@@ -437,7 +437,7 @@ def completion(
     except:
         raise VertexAIError(
             status_code=400,
-            message="vertexai import failed please run `pip install google-cloud-aiplatform`",
+            message="vertexai import failed please run `pip install google-cloud-aiplatform`. This is required for the 'vertex_ai/' route on LiteLLM",
         )
 
     if not (