diff --git a/litellm/integrations/prometheus.py b/litellm/integrations/prometheus.py
index bfb7ade372e..c8f5a303770 100644
--- a/litellm/integrations/prometheus.py
+++ b/litellm/integrations/prometheus.py
@@ -943,10 +943,10 @@ class PrometheusLogger(CustomLogger):
         else:
             _tags = []
 
-        print_verbose(
-            "inside track_prometheus_metrics, model %s, response_cost %s, tokens_used %s"
-            % (model, response_cost, tokens_used)
-        )
+        if litellm.set_verbose:
+            print_verbose(
+                f"inside track_prometheus_metrics, model {model}, response_cost {response_cost}, tokens_used {tokens_used}"
+            )
 
         enum_values = UserAPIKeyLabelValues(
             end_user=end_user_id,
diff --git a/litellm/llms/custom_httpx/http_handler.py b/litellm/llms/custom_httpx/http_handler.py
index c6013c450b1..69dc0175585 100644
--- a/litellm/llms/custom_httpx/http_handler.py
+++ b/litellm/llms/custom_httpx/http_handler.py
@@ -56,7 +56,14 @@ except Exception:
 @functools.lru_cache(maxsize=64)
 def _parse_url(url: str) -> httpx.URL:
     """Pre-parse a URL string into an httpx.URL to avoid regex-heavy
-    parsing inside httpx._merge_url on every request (~7μs → ~0.4μs)."""
+    parsing inside httpx._merge_url on every request (~7μs → ~0.4μs).
+
+    Safe to use with ``build_request(params=...)``: httpx replaces the
+    query string entirely when ``params`` is non-None, so any query
+    params baked into the cached URL are harmless in that case.  When
+    ``params`` is None the cached URL preserves the original query
+    string, which is the correct behaviour.
+    """
     return httpx.URL(url)