diff --git a/docs/my-website/docs/providers/togetherai.md b/docs/my-website/docs/providers/togetherai.md
index fb5f1b27a44..99b17c317a7 100644
--- a/docs/my-website/docs/providers/togetherai.md
+++ b/docs/my-website/docs/providers/togetherai.md
@@ -20,3 +20,112 @@ Example TogetherAI Usage - Note: liteLLM supports all models deployed on Togethe
 | togethercomputer/code-and-talk-v1 | `completion('togethercomputer/code-and-talk-v1', messages)`           | `os.environ['TOGETHERAI_API_KEY']` |
 | togethercomputer/creative-v1      | `completion('togethercomputer/creative-v1', messages)`                | `os.environ['TOGETHERAI_API_KEY']` |
 | togethercomputer/yourmodel        | `completion('togethercomputer/yourmodel', messages)`                  | `os.environ['TOGETHERAI_API_KEY']` |
+
+
+### Prompt Templates
+
+Using a chat model on Together AI with it's own prompt format?
+
+#### Using Llama2 Instruct models
+If you're using Together AI's Llama2 variants( `model=togethercomputer/llama-2..-instruct`), LiteLLM can automatically translate between the OpenAI prompt format and the TogetherAI Llama2 one (`[INST]..[/INST]`). 
+
+```python
+from litellm import completion 
+
+# set env variable 
+os.environ["TOGETHERAI_API_KEY"] = ""
+
+messages = [{"role": "user", "content": "Write me a poem about the blue sky"}]
+
+completion(model="together_ai/togethercomputer/Llama-2-7B-32K-Instruct", messages=messages)
+```
+
+#### Using another model
+
+You can create a custom prompt template on LiteLLM (and we [welcome PRs](https://github.com/BerriAI/litellm) to add them to the main repo 🤗)
+
+Let's make one for `OpenAssistant/llama2-70b-oasst-sft-v10`!
+
+The accepted template format is: [Reference](https://huggingface.co/OpenAssistant/llama2-70b-oasst-sft-v10-)
+```
+"""
+<|im_start|>system
+{system_message}<|im_end|>
+<|im_start|>user
+{prompt}<|im_end|>
+<|im_start|>assistant
+"""
+```
+
+Let's register our custom prompt template: [Implementation Code](https://github.com/BerriAI/litellm/blob/64f3d3c56ef02ac5544983efc78293de31c1c201/litellm/llms/prompt_templates/factory.py#L77)
+```
+import litellm 
+
+litellm.register_prompt_template(
+    model="OpenAssistant/llama2-70b-oasst-sft-v10",
+    roles={"system":"<|im_start|>system", "assistant":"<|im_start|>assistant", "user":"<|im_start|>user"}, # tell LiteLLM how you want to map the openai messages to this model
+    pre_message_sep= "\n",
+    post_message_sep= "\n"
+)
+```
+
+Let's use it! 
+
+```
+from litellm import completion 
+
+# set env variable 
+os.environ["TOGETHERAI_API_KEY"] = ""
+
+messages=[{"role":"user", "content": "Write me a poem about the blue sky"}]
+
+completion(model="together_ai/OpenAssistant/llama2-70b-oasst-sft-v10", messages=messages)
+```
+
+**Complete Code**
+
+```
+import litellm 
+from litellm import completion
+
+# set env variable 
+os.environ["TOGETHERAI_API_KEY"] = ""
+
+litellm.register_prompt_template(
+    model="OpenAssistant/llama2-70b-oasst-sft-v10",
+    roles={"system":"<|im_start|>system", "assistant":"<|im_start|>assistant", "user":"<|im_start|>user"}, # tell LiteLLM how you want to map the openai messages to this model
+    pre_message_sep= "\n",
+    post_message_sep= "\n"
+)
+
+messages=[{"role":"user", "content": "Write me a poem about the blue sky"}]
+
+response = completion(model="together_ai/OpenAssistant/llama2-70b-oasst-sft-v10", messages=messages)
+
+print(response)
+```
+
+**Output**
+```
+{
+  "choices": [
+    {
+      "finish_reason": "stop",
+      "index": 0,
+      "message": {
+        "content": ".\n\nThe sky is a canvas of blue,\nWith clouds that drift and move,",
+        "role": "assistant",
+        "logprobs": null
+      }
+    }
+  ],
+  "created": 1693941410.482018,
+  "model": "OpenAssistant/llama2-70b-oasst-sft-v10",
+  "usage": {
+    "prompt_tokens": 7,
+    "completion_tokens": 16,
+    "total_tokens": 23
+  },
+  "litellm_call_id": "f21315db-afd6-4c1e-b43a-0b5682de4b06"
+}
+```
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diff --git a/litellm/utils.py b/litellm/utils.py
index 1c78e50c4a6..7d4a1f48861 100644
--- a/litellm/utils.py
+++ b/litellm/utils.py
@@ -872,6 +872,29 @@ def load_test_model(
             "exception": e,
         }
 
+def validate_environment(self):
+        api_key = None
+        if "OPENAI_API_KEY" in os.environ:
+            api_key = os.getenv("OPENAI_API_KEY")
+        elif "ANTHROPIC_API_KEY" in os.environ:
+            api_key = os.getenv("ANTHROPIC_API_KEY")
+        elif "REPLICATE_API_KEY" in os.environ:
+            api_key = os.getenv("REPLICATE_API_KEY")
+        elif "AZURE_API_KEY" in os.environ:
+            api_key = os.getenv("AZURE_API_KEY")
+        elif "COHERE_API_KEY" in os.getenv("COHERE_API_KEY"):
+            api_key = os.getenv("COHERE_API_KEY")
+        elif "TOGETHERAI_API_KEY" in os.environ:
+            api_key = os.getenv("TOGETHERAI_API_KEY")
+        elif "BASETEN_API_KEY" in os.environ:
+            api_key = os.getenv("BASETEN_API_KEY")
+        elif "AI21_API_KEY" in os.environ:
+            api_key = os.getenv("AI21_API_KEY")
+        elif "OPENROUTER_API_KEY" in os.environ:
+            api_key = os.getenv("OPENROUTER_API_KEY")
+        elif "ALEPHALPHA_API_KEY" in os.environ:
+            api_key = os.getenv("ALEPHALPHA_API_KEY")
+        return api_key
 
 def set_callbacks(callback_list, function_id=None):
     global sentry_sdk_instance, capture_exception, add_breadcrumb, posthog, slack_app, alerts_channel, traceloopLogger, heliconeLogger, aispendLogger, berrispendLogger, supabaseClient, liteDebuggerClient, llmonitorLogger, promptLayerLogger, langFuseLogger