diff --git a/apps/studio/components/interfaces/ErrorHandling/ErrorMatcher.tsx b/apps/studio/components/interfaces/ErrorHandling/ErrorMatcher.tsx
index a094881fb62..29c17fd6d62 100644
--- a/apps/studio/components/interfaces/ErrorHandling/ErrorMatcher.tsx
+++ b/apps/studio/components/interfaces/ErrorHandling/ErrorMatcher.tsx
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 import { ErrorDisplay, SupportFormParams } from 'ui-patterns/ErrorDisplay/ErrorDisplay'
 
 import { getMappingForError } from './ErrorMatcher.utils'
+import { categorizeError } from '@/lib/telemetry/categorizeError'
 import { useTrack } from '@/lib/telemetry/track'
 
 interface ErrorMatcherProps {
@@ -29,7 +30,7 @@ export function ErrorMatcher({ title, error, supportFormParams, className }: Err
         if (Math.random() < 0.1) {
           track('dashboard_error_created', {
             source: 'error_display',
-            errorType: mapping?.id,
+            ...categorizeError(error),
             hasTroubleshooting: !!mapping,
           })
         }
diff --git a/apps/studio/components/ui/AlertError.tsx b/apps/studio/components/ui/AlertError.tsx
index 8b1d859225a..c90a81704d7 100644
--- a/apps/studio/components/ui/AlertError.tsx
+++ b/apps/studio/components/ui/AlertError.tsx
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import { Button } from 'ui'
 import { Admonition } from 'ui-patterns/admonition'
 
 import { SupportLink } from '@/components/interfaces/Support/SupportLink'
+import { categorizeError } from '@/lib/telemetry/categorizeError'
 import { useTrack } from '@/lib/telemetry/track'
 
 export interface AlertErrorProps {
@@ -73,6 +74,7 @@ export const AlertError = ({
       if (Math.random() < 0.1) {
         track('dashboard_error_created', {
           source: 'admonition',
+          ...categorizeError(error),
         })
       }
     }
diff --git a/apps/studio/lib/toast-errors.tsx b/apps/studio/lib/toast-errors.tsx
index 8dd031588f3..b0cd4653876 100644
--- a/apps/studio/lib/toast-errors.tsx
+++ b/apps/studio/lib/toast-errors.tsx
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import { useEffect, useRef } from 'react'
 import { useSonner } from 'sonner'
 
+import { categorizeError } from '@/lib/telemetry/categorizeError'
 import { useTrack } from '@/lib/telemetry/track'
 
 export const ToastErrorTracker = () => {
@@ -13,8 +14,13 @@ export const ToastErrorTracker = () => {
       if (toast.type === 'error' && !trackRef.current.has(toast.id)) {
         trackRef.current.add(toast.id)
         if (Math.random() < 0.1) {
+          // Only the rendered title is available here and it may contain PII, so
+          // categorizeError extracts a PII-free code/type and never the text.
+          // Non-string titles (ReactNode) yield `errorType: 'unknown'`.
+          const title = typeof toast.title === 'string' ? toast.title : ''
           track('dashboard_error_created', {
             source: 'toast',
+            ...categorizeError(title),
           })
         }
       }
diff --git a/packages/common/telemetry-constants.ts b/packages/common/telemetry-constants.ts
index 45de2d9d97a..434509c9677 100644
--- a/packages/common/telemetry-constants.ts
+++ b/packages/common/telemetry-constants.ts
@@ -2821,9 +2821,17 @@ export interface DashboardErrorCreatedEvent {
      */
     source?: 'admonition' | 'toast' | 'error_display'
     /**
-     * Type of error matched (for error_display source)
+     * Normalized, PII-free error category derived from the error
+     * (e.g. 'connection-timeout', 'unauthorized', 'forbidden', 'not-found',
+     * 'server-error', 'network-error', 'timeout', 'canceled', 'unknown').
+     * Never contains the raw error message.
      */
     errorType?: string
+    /**
+     * HTTP status code (e.g. 403, 500) when available, or a transport category
+     * ('network', 'timeout') when there is no status. PII-free.
+     */
+    errorCode?: number | string
     /**
      * Whether troubleshooting steps are available (for error_display source)
      */