BerriAI/litellm · error · Exception

Error adding policy to DB: {e}

Error message

Error adding policy to DB: {e}

What it means

Catch-all from PolicyRegistry.add_policy_to_db: parsing the policy request or inserting the row into the policy table failed (validation of pipeline/condition serialization, or a Prisma write error). The original exception is chained into the message.

Source

Thrown at litellm/proxy/policy_engine/policy_registry.py:428

            policy: Final = self._parse_policy(
                policy_request.policy_name,
                {
                    "inherit": policy_request.inherit,
                    "description": policy_request.description,
                    "guardrails": {
                        "add": policy_request.guardrails_add,
                        "remove": policy_request.guardrails_remove,
                    },
                    "condition": (policy_request.condition.model_dump() if policy_request.condition else None),
                    "pipeline": policy_request.pipeline,
                },
            )
            self.add_policy(policy_request.policy_name, policy)

            return _row_to_policy_db_response(created_policy)
        except Exception as e:
            verbose_proxy_logger.exception("Error adding policy to DB: %s", e)
            raise Exception(f"Error adding policy to DB: {e}")

    async def update_policy_in_db(
        self,
        policy_id: str,
        policy_request: PolicyUpdateRequest,
        prisma_client: "PrismaClient",
        updated_by: str | None = None,
    ) -> PolicyDBResponse:
        """
        Update a policy in the database. Only draft versions can be updated.

        Args:
            policy_id: The ID of the policy to update
            policy_request: The policy update request
            prisma_client: The Prisma client instance
            updated_by: User who updated the policy

        Returns:

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Solutions

1. Check DB connectivity and the error detail; resolve constraint violations (e.g. duplicate name) and retry.

When it happens

Trigger: Thrown at litellm/proxy/policy_engine/policy_registry.py:428 when the library encounters an invalid state.

Common situations: See trigger scenarios.

AI-assisted analysis of BerriAI/litellm@77b7c6c40c (2026-08-18). Data as JSON: /api/errors/45c9f45a1253dbb6. Report an issue: GitHub.