diff --git a/packages/node/src/handlers.ts b/packages/node/src/handlers.ts
index ffb2ed966881..4a0a431157d8 100644
--- a/packages/node/src/handlers.ts
+++ b/packages/node/src/handlers.ts
@@ -412,6 +412,7 @@ export function requestHandler(
           })
           .then(null, e => {
             logger.error(e);
+            _end.call(this, chunk, encoding, cb);
           });
       };
     }
diff --git a/packages/node/test/handlers.test.ts b/packages/node/test/handlers.test.ts
index 2fd83094bf13..f0959de22132 100644
--- a/packages/node/test/handlers.test.ts
+++ b/packages/node/test/handlers.test.ts
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ import { Hub } from '@sentry/hub';
 import * as sentryHub from '@sentry/hub';
 import { Transaction } from '@sentry/tracing';
 import { Runtime } from '@sentry/types';
+import { SentryError } from '@sentry/utils';
 import * as http from 'http';
 import * as net from 'net';
 
@@ -16,6 +17,7 @@ import {
   requestHandler,
   tracingHandler,
 } from '../src/handlers';
+import * as SDK from '../src/sdk';
 
 describe('parseRequest', () => {
   let mockReq: { [key: string]: any };
@@ -281,6 +283,31 @@ describe('requestHandler', () => {
       done();
     });
   });
+
+  it('patches `res.end` when `flushTimeout` is specified', () => {
+    const flush = jest.spyOn(SDK, 'flush').mockResolvedValue(true);
+
+    const sentryRequestMiddleware = requestHandler({ flushTimeout: 1337 });
+    sentryRequestMiddleware(req, res, next);
+    res.end('ok');
+
+    setImmediate(() => {
+      expect(flush).toHaveBeenCalledWith(1337);
+      expect(res.finished).toBe(true);
+    });
+  });
+
+  it('prevents errors thrown during `flush` from breaking the response', async () => {
+    jest.spyOn(SDK, 'flush').mockRejectedValue(new SentryError('HTTP Error (429)'));
+
+    const sentryRequestMiddleware = requestHandler({ flushTimeout: 1337 });
+    sentryRequestMiddleware(req, res, next);
+    res.end('ok');
+
+    setImmediate(() => {
+      expect(res.finished).toBe(true);
+    });
+  });
 });
 
 describe('tracingHandler', () => {