From b2e123da4332344677fba1b819dc423864cee89c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: mateo <mateo@berri.ai>
Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2026 03:14:11 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] fix(proxy): drop legacy telemetry key from persisted
 WORKER_CONFIG before initialize

Co-Authored-By: Devin AI <158243242+devin-ai-integration[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
---
 .github/template.yaml                                 |  2 +-
 cookbook/misc/config.yaml                             |  1 -
 litellm/proxy/proxy_server.py                         | 11 +++++++++--
 .../test_litellm/proxy/proxy_server/test_lifecycle.py | 11 +++++++++++
 4 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/template.yaml b/.github/template.yaml
index d4db2c2ac1f..c77e578e53c 100644
--- a/.github/template.yaml
+++ b/.github/template.yaml
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ Parameters:
   WorkerConfigParameter:
     Type: String
     Description: Sample environment variable
-    Default: '{"model": null, "alias": null, "api_base": null, "api_version": "2023-07-01-preview", "debug": false, "temperature": null, "max_tokens": null, "request_timeout": 600, "max_budget": null, "telemetry": true, "drop_params": false, "add_function_to_prompt": false, "headers": null, "save": false, "config": null, "use_queue": false}'
+    Default: '{"model": null, "alias": null, "api_base": null, "api_version": "2023-07-01-preview", "debug": false, "temperature": null, "max_tokens": null, "request_timeout": 600, "max_budget": null, "drop_params": false, "add_function_to_prompt": false, "headers": null, "save": false, "config": null, "use_queue": false}'
 
 Resources:
   MyUrlFunctionPermissions:
diff --git a/cookbook/misc/config.yaml b/cookbook/misc/config.yaml
index d1d06eb5842..27a6332a882 100644
--- a/cookbook/misc/config.yaml
+++ b/cookbook/misc/config.yaml
@@ -55,7 +55,6 @@ litellm_settings:
   # budget_duration: 30d
   num_retries: 5
   request_timeout: 600
-  telemetry: False
   context_window_fallbacks: [{"gpt-3.5-turbo": ["gpt-3.5-turbo-large"]}]
 
 general_settings: 
diff --git a/litellm/proxy/proxy_server.py b/litellm/proxy/proxy_server.py
index df326615764..9c4ea7e8599 100644
--- a/litellm/proxy/proxy_server.py
+++ b/litellm/proxy/proxy_server.py
@@ -1208,12 +1208,12 @@ async def proxy_startup_event(app: FastAPI) -> AsyncGenerator[None, None]:
                 general_settings,
             ) = await proxy_config.load_config(router=llm_router, config_file_path=worker_config)
         elif isinstance(worker_config, dict):
-            await initialize(**worker_config)
+            await initialize_from_worker_config(worker_config)
         else:
             # if not, assume it's a json string
             worker_config = json.loads(worker_config)
             if isinstance(worker_config, dict):
-                await initialize(**worker_config)
+                await initialize_from_worker_config(worker_config)
 
     # check if DATABASE_URL in environment - load from there
     if prisma_client is None:
@@ -8568,6 +8568,13 @@ def save_worker_config(**data):
     os.environ["WORKER_CONFIG"] = json.dumps(data)
 
 
+LEGACY_WORKER_CONFIG_KEYS: Final = frozenset({"telemetry"})
+
+
+async def initialize_from_worker_config(worker_config: dict[str, object]) -> None:
+    await initialize(**{k: v for k, v in worker_config.items() if k not in LEGACY_WORKER_CONFIG_KEYS})
+
+
 async def initialize(
     model=None,
     alias=None,
diff --git a/tests/test_litellm/proxy/proxy_server/test_lifecycle.py b/tests/test_litellm/proxy/proxy_server/test_lifecycle.py
index ba560cebd52..e9695685ca5 100644
--- a/tests/test_litellm/proxy/proxy_server/test_lifecycle.py
+++ b/tests/test_litellm/proxy/proxy_server/test_lifecycle.py
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ from litellm.proxy.proxy_server import (
     cost_tracking,
     get_litellm_model_info,
     initialize,
+    initialize_from_worker_config,
     load_from_azure_key_vault,
     proxy_shutdown_event,
     proxy_startup_event,
@@ -522,6 +523,16 @@ async def test_initialize_invalid_unexpected_kwarg_raises_type_error():
         await initialize(this_is_not_a_real_kwarg=True)
 
 
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_initialize_from_worker_config_drops_legacy_telemetry_key():
+    with pytest.raises(TypeError):
+        await initialize(telemetry=True)
+    await initialize_from_worker_config({"telemetry": True, "request_timeout": 77})
+    assert ps.user_request_timeout == 77
+    with pytest.raises(TypeError):
+        await initialize_from_worker_config({"this_is_not_a_real_kwarg": True})
+
+
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # load_from_azure_key_vault
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------