Open WebUI / Lite LLM User Tracking

[NoMoreFood]

I use Lite LLM to attach Open WebUI for a small workgroup to connect to Azure AI. It works great, but was hoping to track which user made the request using the Lite LLM database. Is there any way to use something like the X-OpenWebUI-User-Email HTTP header such that Lite LLM uses that to track the user? Right now everything appears to register as default_user_id.

[ishaan-jaff]

yes, Does OpenWebUI send X-OpenWebUI-User-Email in the request header ?

[ishaan-jaff]

should this be tracked as an end user or internal user on litellm logs ?

[NoMoreFood]

Yes, when enabled using the environment variable called ENABLE_FORWARD_USER_INFO_HEADERS, OpenWebUI will add an HTTP header called X-OpenWebUI-User-Email to every chat request it sends out. It would make the most sense to me to be tracked as an end user.

[NoMoreFood]

@ishaan-jaff You seemed to indicate that there is a way to do this... is there any documentation you can point me to that might help?