diff --git a/docs/my-website/docs/proxy/budget_alerts.md b/docs/my-website/docs/proxy/budget_alerts.md
index 580040d9782..f9fc63f0e52 100644
--- a/docs/my-website/docs/proxy/budget_alerts.md
+++ b/docs/my-website/docs/proxy/budget_alerts.md
@@ -10,6 +10,16 @@ import Image from '@theme/IdealImage';
 
 ### 1. Setup Slack Alerting on your Proxy Config.yaml 
 
+**Add Slack Webhook to your env**
+Get a slack webhook url from https://api.slack.com/messaging/webhooks
+
+
+Set `SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL` in your proxy env
+
+```shell
+export SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL="https://hooks.slack.com/services/<>/<>/<>"
+```
+
 **Update proxy config.yaml with slack alerting**
 Add `general_settings:alerting`
 ```yaml
@@ -22,15 +32,8 @@ general_settings:
     alerting: ["slack"]
 ```
 
-Get a slack webhook url from https://api.slack.com/messaging/webhooks
 
 
-Set `SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL` in your proxy env
-
-```shell
-SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL: "https://hooks.slack.com/services/<>/<>/<>"
-```
-
 Start proxy
 ```bash
 $ litellm --config /path/to/config.yaml