diff --git a/.github/workflows/test-litellm-ui-build.yml b/.github/workflows/test-litellm-ui-build.yml
index b83119712a7..0fd8093949d 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/test-litellm-ui-build.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/test-litellm-ui-build.yml
@@ -111,4 +111,4 @@ jobs:
         if: ${{ !cancelled() && steps.changed.outputs.has_files == 'true' }}
         run: |
           npx eslint . -f json -o "$RUNNER_TEMP/lint-report.json" || true
-          node scripts/check-lint-budgets.mjs "$RUNNER_TEMP/lint-report.json" eslint-budgets.json
+          node scripts/check-lint-budgets.mjs "$RUNNER_TEMP/lint-report.json" eslint-budgets.json --check eslint-metrics.json
diff --git a/ui/litellm-dashboard/eslint-metrics.json b/ui/litellm-dashboard/eslint-metrics.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..28f9fc3a6af
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ui/litellm-dashboard/eslint-metrics.json
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+{
+  "@typescript-eslint/no-explicit-any": 2027,
+  "complexity": 128,
+  "max-depth": 61
+}
diff --git a/ui/litellm-dashboard/package.json b/ui/litellm-dashboard/package.json
index 23da0bcd636..a8948f4be34 100644
--- a/ui/litellm-dashboard/package.json
+++ b/ui/litellm-dashboard/package.json
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
     "build": "next build",
     "start": "next start",
     "lint": "eslint .",
+    "lint:metrics": "node scripts/update-lint-metrics.mjs",
     "test": "vitest",
     "test:dot": "vitest --reporter=dot",
     "test:watch": "vitest -w",
diff --git a/ui/litellm-dashboard/scripts/check-lint-budgets.mjs b/ui/litellm-dashboard/scripts/check-lint-budgets.mjs
index f6208f012bb..a7aba18ae76 100644
--- a/ui/litellm-dashboard/scripts/check-lint-budgets.mjs
+++ b/ui/litellm-dashboard/scripts/check-lint-budgets.mjs
@@ -1,22 +1,25 @@
 import { readFileSync } from "fs";
+import { countBudgetViolations, findDrift } from "./lint-budget-lib.mjs";
 
-const [, , reportPath, budgetsPath] = process.argv;
-
-const report = JSON.parse(readFileSync(reportPath, "utf8"));
-const budgets = JSON.parse(readFileSync(budgetsPath, "utf8"));
-
-const counts = {};
-for (const file of report) {
-  for (const message of file.messages) {
-    if (message.ruleId in budgets) {
-      counts[message.ruleId] = (counts[message.ruleId] || 0) + 1;
-    }
+const argv = process.argv.slice(2);
+const positional = [];
+const flags = {};
+for (let i = 0; i < argv.length; i += 1) {
+  if (argv[i] === "--check") {
+    flags.check = argv[(i += 1)];
+  } else {
+    positional.push(argv[i]);
   }
 }
 
+const [reportPath, budgetsPath] = positional;
+const report = JSON.parse(readFileSync(reportPath, "utf8"));
+const budgets = JSON.parse(readFileSync(budgetsPath, "utf8"));
+const counts = countBudgetViolations(report, budgets);
+
 let failed = false;
 for (const [rule, { max, target }] of Object.entries(budgets)) {
-  const count = counts[rule] || 0;
+  const count = counts[rule];
   const note = count > max ? "OVER BUDGET" : count <= target ? "at target" : `${max - count} of headroom`;
   console.log(`${rule}: ${count} | max: ${max} | target: ${target} | ${note}`);
   if (count > max) {
@@ -27,4 +30,20 @@ for (const [rule, { max, target }] of Object.entries(budgets)) {
   }
 }
 
+if (flags.check) {
+  const committed = JSON.parse(readFileSync(flags.check, "utf8"));
+  const drift = findDrift(committed, counts);
+  for (const { rule, committed: was, actual } of drift) {
+    console.error(
+      `::error::${flags.check} is stale for ${rule}: committed ${was ?? "missing"}, actual ${actual ?? "not a tracked rule"}.`,
+    );
+  }
+  if (drift.length > 0) {
+    console.error(`::error::Run \`npm run lint:metrics\` and commit ${flags.check}.`);
+    failed = true;
+  } else {
+    console.log(`${flags.check} is up to date.`);
+  }
+}
+
 process.exit(failed ? 1 : 0);
diff --git a/ui/litellm-dashboard/scripts/lint-budget-lib.mjs b/ui/litellm-dashboard/scripts/lint-budget-lib.mjs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..a43305fc4ed
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ui/litellm-dashboard/scripts/lint-budget-lib.mjs
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+export function countBudgetViolations(report, budgets) {
+  const counts = {};
+  for (const file of report) {
+    for (const message of file.messages) {
+      if (message.ruleId in budgets) {
+        counts[message.ruleId] = (counts[message.ruleId] || 0) + 1;
+      }
+    }
+  }
+  return Object.fromEntries(
+    Object.keys(budgets)
+      .sort()
+      .map((rule) => [rule, counts[rule] || 0]),
+  );
+}
+
+export function findDrift(committed, actual) {
+  const rules = [...new Set([...Object.keys(actual), ...Object.keys(committed)])].sort();
+  return rules
+    .filter((rule) => committed[rule] !== actual[rule])
+    .map((rule) => ({ rule, committed: committed[rule] ?? null, actual: actual[rule] ?? null }));
+}
diff --git a/ui/litellm-dashboard/scripts/update-lint-metrics.mjs b/ui/litellm-dashboard/scripts/update-lint-metrics.mjs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..16704d1f7a2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ui/litellm-dashboard/scripts/update-lint-metrics.mjs
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+import { execSync } from "child_process";
+import { mkdtempSync, readFileSync, writeFileSync, rmSync } from "fs";
+import { tmpdir } from "os";
+import { join } from "path";
+import { countBudgetViolations } from "./lint-budget-lib.mjs";
+
+const ESLINT_EXIT_LINT_ERRORS = 1;
+
+const budgets = JSON.parse(readFileSync("eslint-budgets.json", "utf8"));
+const dir = mkdtempSync(join(tmpdir(), "litellm-lint-"));
+const reportPath = join(dir, "report.json");
+
+try {
+  execSync(`npx eslint . -f json -o "${reportPath}"`, { stdio: "inherit" });
+} catch (err) {
+  if (err.status !== ESLINT_EXIT_LINT_ERRORS) throw err;
+}
+
+const report = JSON.parse(readFileSync(reportPath, "utf8"));
+rmSync(dir, { recursive: true, force: true });
+
+const metrics = countBudgetViolations(report, budgets);
+writeFileSync("eslint-metrics.json", JSON.stringify(metrics, null, 2) + "\n");
+console.log("Updated eslint-metrics.json");
+console.table(metrics);
diff --git a/ui/litellm-dashboard/tests/lint-budget-lib.test.ts b/ui/litellm-dashboard/tests/lint-budget-lib.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..75b5efe6d1d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ui/litellm-dashboard/tests/lint-budget-lib.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+import { describe, it, expect } from "vitest";
+import { countBudgetViolations, findDrift } from "../scripts/lint-budget-lib.mjs";
+
+const budgets = {
+  "@typescript-eslint/no-explicit-any": { max: 10, target: 5 },
+  complexity: { max: 10, target: 5 },
+};
+
+const file = (...ruleIds: (string | null)[]) => ({ messages: ruleIds.map((ruleId) => ({ ruleId })) });
+
+describe("countBudgetViolations", () => {
+  it("counts only budgeted rules and sums across files", () => {
+    const report = [
+      file("@typescript-eslint/no-explicit-any", "complexity", "max-depth"),
+      file("@typescript-eslint/no-explicit-any", "no-var", null),
+    ];
+    expect(countBudgetViolations(report, budgets)).toEqual({
+      "@typescript-eslint/no-explicit-any": 2,
+      complexity: 1,
+    });
+  });
+
+  it("reports 0 for a budgeted rule with no violations", () => {
+    expect(countBudgetViolations([file("complexity")], budgets)).toEqual({
+      "@typescript-eslint/no-explicit-any": 0,
+      complexity: 1,
+    });
+  });
+
+  it("emits keys in sorted order so the committed snapshot diffs stably", () => {
+    const unsorted = { complexity: { max: 1, target: 1 }, "@typescript-eslint/no-explicit-any": { max: 1, target: 1 } };
+    expect(Object.keys(countBudgetViolations([], unsorted))).toEqual([
+      "@typescript-eslint/no-explicit-any",
+      "complexity",
+    ]);
+  });
+});
+
+describe("findDrift", () => {
+  it("reports no drift when the snapshot matches the actual counts", () => {
+    expect(findDrift({ complexity: 5 }, { complexity: 5 })).toEqual([]);
+  });
+
+  it("detects a changed count", () => {
+    expect(findDrift({ complexity: 5 }, { complexity: 7 })).toEqual([{ rule: "complexity", committed: 5, actual: 7 }]);
+  });
+
+  it("detects a rule missing from the committed snapshot", () => {
+    expect(findDrift({}, { complexity: 7 })).toEqual([{ rule: "complexity", committed: null, actual: 7 }]);
+  });
+
+  it("detects a phantom rule the committed snapshot still carries", () => {
+    expect(findDrift({ "removed-rule": 3 }, {})).toEqual([{ rule: "removed-rule", committed: 3, actual: null }]);
+  });
+});