diff --git a/TELEMETRY.md b/TELEMETRY.md
index 61675e6..f92826c 100644
--- a/TELEMETRY.md
+++ b/TELEMETRY.md
@@ -133,6 +133,13 @@ Rates:
   that failure either as a wrapped `Parse error` message or, since MCP SDK 2.1, as the raw
   `SyntaxError` from `JSON.parse`, and both forms are dropped. Both HTTP responses
   are still counted by `app.server.response`. Other error events are retained.
+- **`createMcpHandler` reports through its own `onerror`**, separate from the transport
+  hook above. It passes client rejections (unsupported protocol revision, failed header or
+  envelope checks, wrong content type) together with real faults. `isMcpClientRejection`
+  skips the rejections, which already answer 4xx. Everything else is captured: faults the
+  handler answers with a 500, and `subscriptions/listen` calls refused at the subscription
+  limit, which answer HTTP 200 with a JSON-RPC error and so are not visible in the
+  response metric.
 
 ## Privacy
 
diff --git a/__tests__/telemetry.test.ts b/__tests__/telemetry.test.ts
index 3e21179..c5bf8de 100644
--- a/__tests__/telemetry.test.ts
+++ b/__tests__/telemetry.test.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import { describe, it, expect } from "vitest";
+import { UnsupportedProtocolVersionError } from "@modelcontextprotocol/server";
 import {
   classifyMcpMethod,
   classifyMcpRequest,
@@ -7,6 +8,7 @@ import {
   rootSampleRate,
   statusClass,
   errorDropReason,
+  isMcpClientRejection,
   HEARTBEAT_SPAN_KEEP_RATE,
   type ErrorEventLike,
 } from "../src/telemetry.js";
@@ -131,6 +133,25 @@ describe("resolveClientFamily", () => {
   });
 });
 
+describe("isMcpClientRejection", () => {
+  it.each([
+    new UnsupportedProtocolVersionError({ supported: ["2026-07-28"], requested: "1999-01-01" }),
+    new Error("Rejected inbound request (H3): MCP-Method header does not match the body"),
+    new Error("Rejected 2025-era request on a modern-only endpoint (L1): unsupported"),
+    new Error("Unsupported Media Type: Content-Type must be application/json"),
+  ])("skips the client rejection %s", (error) => {
+    expect(isMcpClientRejection(error)).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  it.each([
+    new Error("subscriptions/listen refused: subscription limit reached (1024)"),
+    new Error("Response for request ID 7 is undeliverable: per-request stream is disconnected"),
+    new TypeError("Cannot read properties of undefined"),
+  ])("captures the server fault %s", (error) => {
+    expect(isMcpClientRejection(error)).toBe(false);
+  });
+});
+
 describe("errorDropReason", () => {
   it("drops the expected MCP 406 raised for a GET without SSE support", () => {
     const event: ErrorEventLike = {
diff --git a/src/telemetry.ts b/src/telemetry.ts
index 26c558e..3a2ffbd 100644
--- a/src/telemetry.ts
+++ b/src/telemetry.ts
@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@
  * unit-tested like redaction.ts; worker.ts owns the Sentry-specific wiring.
  */
 
+import { UnsupportedProtocolVersionError } from "@modelcontextprotocol/server";
+
 export type RouteGroup = "mcp" | "internal";
 export type McpRequestKind = "heartbeat" | "tool_call" | "control" | "unknown";
 
@@ -244,6 +246,21 @@ export function errorDropReason(event: ErrorEventLike): string | null {
   return null;
 }
 
+/**
+ * True for the client rejections that `createMcpHandler` passes to its `onerror` next to
+ * real faults: an unsupported protocol revision, a failed header or envelope check, or a
+ * wrong content type. The handler already answers each with a 4xx that
+ * `app.server.response` counts. Faults it answers with a 500, and refused
+ * `subscriptions/listen` calls, which it answers with HTTP 200, fall through to capture.
+ */
+export function isMcpClientRejection(error: Error): boolean {
+  return (
+    error instanceof UnsupportedProtocolVersionError ||
+    error.message.startsWith("Rejected ") ||
+    error.message.startsWith("Unsupported Media Type")
+  );
+}
+
 // --- Root span sampling (tracesSampler) ---------------------------------------
 
 /**
diff --git a/src/worker.ts b/src/worker.ts
index 4fa2ada..2f92ea6 100644
--- a/src/worker.ts
+++ b/src/worker.ts
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ import {
   classifyRoute,
   errorDropReason,
   isKnownMcpMethod,
+  isMcpClientRejection,
   resolveClientFamily,
   rootSampleRate,
   statusClass,
@@ -151,7 +152,12 @@ const workerMcpHandler = createMcpHandler(
       enableFeedbackTool: true,
     });
   },
-  { legacy: "stateless" },
+  {
+    legacy: "stateless",
+    onerror: (error) => {
+      if (!isMcpClientRejection(error)) Sentry.captureException(error);
+    },
+  },
 );
 
 /** Best-effort pathname for a request URL, or null if it doesn't parse. */