diff --git a/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/app/(dashboard)/usage/_components/components/EntityUsage/entityUsageAggregations.ts b/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/app/(dashboard)/usage/_components/components/EntityUsage/entityUsageAggregations.ts
index a53b1d2827b..d482a5576ae 100644
--- a/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/app/(dashboard)/usage/_components/components/EntityUsage/entityUsageAggregations.ts
+++ b/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/app/(dashboard)/usage/_components/components/EntityUsage/entityUsageAggregations.ts
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+import { keyActivityLabel } from "@/components/UsagePage/keyActivityLabel";
 import { BreakdownMetrics, DailyData, KeyMetricWithMetadata, TagUsage } from "@/components/UsagePage/types";
 
 export type ExtendedDailyData = DailyData & {
@@ -118,6 +119,7 @@ export const getTopAPIKeys = (results: ExtendedDailyData[], topKeysLimit: number
           metadata: {
             key_alias: metrics.metadata.key_alias,
             team_id: metrics.metadata.team_id || null,
+            user_email: metrics.metadata.user_email,
             tags: tagDictionary[key] || [],
           },
         };
@@ -137,7 +139,7 @@ export const getTopAPIKeys = (results: ExtendedDailyData[], topKeysLimit: number
   return Object.entries(keySpend)
     .map(([api_key, metrics]) => ({
       api_key,
-      key_alias: metrics.metadata.key_alias || "-", // Using truncated key as alias
+      key_alias: keyActivityLabel(metrics.metadata),
       tags: metrics.metadata.tags || "-",
       spend: metrics.metrics.spend,
     }))
diff --git a/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/app/(dashboard)/usage/_components/components/UsagePageView.tsx b/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/app/(dashboard)/usage/_components/components/UsagePageView.tsx
index cbdfc8f39e6..29a81e1ae3f 100644
--- a/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/app/(dashboard)/usage/_components/components/UsagePageView.tsx
+++ b/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/app/(dashboard)/usage/_components/components/UsagePageView.tsx
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ import { Tag } from "@/components/tag_management/types";
 import UserAgentActivity from "@/components/user_agent_activity";
 import ViewUserSpend from "@/components/view_user_spend";
 import { usePaginatedDailyActivity } from "../hooks/usePaginatedDailyActivity";
+import { keyActivityLabel } from "@/components/UsagePage/keyActivityLabel";
 import { DailyData, KeyMetricWithMetadata, MetricWithMetadata } from "@/components/UsagePage/types";
 import { valueFormatterSpend } from "@/components/UsagePage/utils/value_formatters";
 import {
@@ -426,6 +427,7 @@ const UsagePage: React.FC<UsagePageProps> = ({ teams, organizations }) => {
             metadata: {
               key_alias: metrics.metadata.key_alias,
               team_id: null,
+              user_email: metrics.metadata.user_email,
               tags: metrics.metadata.tags || [],
             },
           };
@@ -445,7 +447,7 @@ const UsagePage: React.FC<UsagePageProps> = ({ teams, organizations }) => {
     return Object.entries(keySpend)
       .map(([api_key, metrics]) => ({
         api_key,
-        key_alias: metrics.metadata.key_alias || "-",
+        key_alias: keyActivityLabel(metrics.metadata),
         tags: metrics.metadata.tags || [],
         spend: metrics.metrics.spend,
       }))
diff --git a/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/components/EntityUsageExport/utils.ts b/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/components/EntityUsageExport/utils.ts
index de637d5d627..8fd75134bcc 100644
--- a/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/components/EntityUsageExport/utils.ts
+++ b/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/components/EntityUsageExport/utils.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import { formatNumberWithCommas } from "@/utils/dataUtils";
 import type { DateRangePickerValue } from "@/components/shared/date_picker_types";
 import Papa from "papaparse";
+import { keyActivityLabel } from "@/components/UsagePage/keyActivityLabel";
 import type { EntityBreakdown, EntitySpendData, EntityType, ExportMetadata, ExportScope } from "./types";
 
 const resolveEntityDisplay = (
@@ -186,7 +187,7 @@ export const generateDailyWithKeysData = (
 
       // Iterate through each API key in the breakdown
       Object.entries(apiKeyBreakdown).forEach(([keyId, keyData]: [string, any]) => {
-        const keyAlias = keyData?.metadata?.key_alias || null;
+        const keyAlias = keyActivityLabel(keyData?.metadata, "") || null;
 
         // Create unique key for aggregation: Date_EntityID_KeyID
         const uniqueKey = `${day.date}_${entityId}_${keyId}`;
diff --git a/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/components/UsagePage/keyActivityLabel.test.ts b/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/components/UsagePage/keyActivityLabel.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..eaf1985c5fa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/components/UsagePage/keyActivityLabel.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+import { keyActivityLabel } from "./keyActivityLabel";
+
+describe("keyActivityLabel", () => {
+  it("prefers key_alias", () => {
+    expect(keyActivityLabel({ key_alias: "batch-worker", user_email: "alice@example.com" })).toBe("batch-worker");
+  });
+
+  it("falls back to user_email when alias is missing", () => {
+    expect(keyActivityLabel({ key_alias: null, user_email: "alice@example.com" })).toBe("alice@example.com");
+  });
+
+  it("uses the fallback when both alias and email are missing", () => {
+    expect(keyActivityLabel({ key_alias: null, user_email: null }, "key-hash-abc")).toBe("key-hash-abc");
+  });
+});
diff --git a/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/components/UsagePage/keyActivityLabel.ts b/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/components/UsagePage/keyActivityLabel.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..8b3a7eec916
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/components/UsagePage/keyActivityLabel.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+import type { KeyMetadata } from "./types";
+
+export function keyActivityLabel(
+  metadata: Pick<KeyMetadata, "key_alias" | "user_email"> | null | undefined,
+  fallback = "-",
+): string {
+  return metadata?.key_alias || metadata?.user_email || fallback;
+}
diff --git a/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/components/activity_metrics.tsx b/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/components/activity_metrics.tsx
index e17263ab078..f4348fb65ae 100644
--- a/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/components/activity_metrics.tsx
+++ b/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/components/activity_metrics.tsx
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import { ChevronDown } from "lucide-react";
 import React, { useState } from "react";
 import { Team } from "./key_team_helpers/key_list";
 import KeyModelUsageView from "./UsagePage/components/KeyModelUsageView";
+import { keyActivityLabel } from "./UsagePage/keyActivityLabel";
 import { DailyData, KeyMetricWithMetadata, ModelActivityData, TopApiKeyData, TopModelData } from "./UsagePage/types";
 import { valueFormatter } from "./UsagePage/utils/value_formatters";
 
@@ -433,7 +434,7 @@ export const ActivityMetrics: React.FC<ActivityMetricsProps> = ({ modelMetrics,
 
 // Helper function to format key label
 export const formatKeyLabel = (modelData: KeyMetricWithMetadata, model: string, teams: Team[]): string => {
-  const keyAlias = modelData.metadata.key_alias || modelData.metadata.user_email || `key-hash-${model}`;
+  const keyAlias = keyActivityLabel(modelData.metadata, `key-hash-${model}`);
   const teamId = modelData.metadata.team_id;
   if (teamId) {
     const teamAlias = resolveTeamAliasFromTeamID(teamId, teams);
@@ -516,7 +517,7 @@ export const processActivityData = (
             if (!apiKeyBreakdown[apiKey]) {
               apiKeyBreakdown[apiKey] = {
                 api_key: apiKey,
-                key_alias: keyData.metadata.key_alias,
+                key_alias: keyActivityLabel(keyData.metadata, "") || null,
                 team_id: keyData.metadata.team_id,
                 spend: 0,
                 requests: 0,