diff --git a/litellm/proxy/_new_secret_config.yaml b/litellm/proxy/_new_secret_config.yaml
index afb1b7b3aa..cd49647464 100644
--- a/litellm/proxy/_new_secret_config.yaml
+++ b/litellm/proxy/_new_secret_config.yaml
@@ -18,4 +18,9 @@ router_settings:
 general_settings:
   enable_jwt_auth: True
   litellm_jwtauth:
-    admin_jwt_scope: "ai.admin"
\ No newline at end of file
+    admin_jwt_scope: "ai.admin"
+    # team_id_jwt_field: "client_id" # 👈 CAN BE ANY FIELD
+    user_id_jwt_field: "sub" # 👈 CAN BE ANY FIELD
+    org_id_jwt_field: "org_id" # 👈 CAN BE ANY FIELD
+    end_user_id_jwt_field: "customer_id" # 👈 CAN BE ANY FIELD
+    user_id_upsert: True
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/litellm/proxy/_types.py b/litellm/proxy/_types.py
index 255e37186d..220a0d5ddb 100644
--- a/litellm/proxy/_types.py
+++ b/litellm/proxy/_types.py
@@ -1631,7 +1631,7 @@ class LiteLLM_UserTable(LiteLLMPydanticObjectBase):
 
 class LiteLLM_UserTableFiltered(BaseModel):  # done to avoid exposing sensitive data
     user_id: str
-    user_email: str
+    user_email: Optional[str] = None
 
 
 class LiteLLM_UserTableWithKeyCount(LiteLLM_UserTable):
diff --git a/litellm/proxy/management_endpoints/internal_user_endpoints.py b/litellm/proxy/management_endpoints/internal_user_endpoints.py
index 43d8273dee..e9be169cdc 100644
--- a/litellm/proxy/management_endpoints/internal_user_endpoints.py
+++ b/litellm/proxy/management_endpoints/internal_user_endpoints.py
@@ -1240,4 +1240,5 @@ async def ui_view_users(
         return [LiteLLM_UserTableFiltered(**user.model_dump()) for user in users]
 
     except Exception as e:
+        verbose_proxy_logger.exception(f"Error searching users: {str(e)}")
         raise HTTPException(status_code=500, detail=f"Error searching users: {str(e)}")