diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 338c63a014..52034f53b6 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -127,6 +127,7 @@
     "gravatar-url": "^3.1.0",
     "hash-sum": "^2.0.0",
     "helmet": "^6.0.0",
+    "http-errors": "^2.0.0",
     "ip": "^1.1.8",
     "joi": "^17.3.0",
     "js-sha256": "^0.9.0",
diff --git a/src/lib/error/unleash-error.ts b/src/lib/error/unleash-error.ts
index d8ccfafa54..5673958ae3 100644
--- a/src/lib/error/unleash-error.ts
+++ b/src/lib/error/unleash-error.ts
@@ -86,6 +86,8 @@ const statusCode = (errorName: string): number => {
             return 403;
         case 'AuthenticationRequired':
             return 401;
+        case 'BadRequestError': //thrown by express; do not remove
+            return 400;
         default:
             return 500;
     }
diff --git a/src/lib/routes/util.ts b/src/lib/routes/util.ts
index af8b81b5f3..9d29437731 100644
--- a/src/lib/routes/util.ts
+++ b/src/lib/routes/util.ts
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ import { Response } from 'express';
 import { Logger } from '../logger';
 import { UnleashError } from '../error/unleash-error';
 import { fromLegacyError } from '../error/from-legacy-error';
+import createError from 'http-errors';
 
 export const customJoi = joi.extend((j) => ({
     type: 'isUrlFriendly',
@@ -27,6 +28,17 @@ export const handleErrors: (
     logger: Logger,
     error: Error,
 ) => void = (res, logger, error) => {
+    if (createError.isHttpError(error)) {
+        return (
+            res
+                // @ts-expect-error http errors all have statuses, but there are no
+                // types provided
+                .status(error.status ?? 400)
+                .json({ message: error.message })
+                .end()
+        );
+    }
+
     const finalError =
         error instanceof UnleashError ? error : fromLegacyError(error);
 
@@ -40,15 +52,7 @@ export const handleErrors: (
         );
     }
 
-    logger.warn(
-        `Original error message: ${error.message}. Processed error message: "${
-            finalError.message
-        }" Error ID: "${finalError.id}". Full, serialized error: ${format(
-            finalError.toJSON(),
-        )}`,
-    );
-
-    if (['InternalError', 'UnknownError'].includes(finalError.name)) {
+    if (finalError.statusCode === 500) {
         logger.error(
             `Server failed executing request: ${format(error)}`,
             error,
diff --git a/yarn.lock b/yarn.lock
index a196679acb..d095e07e17 100644
--- a/yarn.lock
+++ b/yarn.lock
@@ -3851,7 +3851,7 @@ http-cache-semantics@^4.1.0, http-cache-semantics@^4.1.1:
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/http-cache-semantics/-/http-cache-semantics-4.1.1.tgz#abe02fcb2985460bf0323be664436ec3476a6d5a"
   integrity sha512-er295DKPVsV82j5kw1Gjt+ADA/XYHsajl82cGNQG2eyoPkvgUhX+nDIyelzhIWbbsXP39EHcI6l5tYs2FYqYXQ==
 
-http-errors@2.0.0:
+http-errors@2.0.0, http-errors@^2.0.0:
   version "2.0.0"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/http-errors/-/http-errors-2.0.0.tgz#b7774a1486ef73cf7667ac9ae0858c012c57b9d3"
   integrity sha512-FtwrG/euBzaEjYeRqOgly7G0qviiXoJWnvEH2Z1plBdXgbyjv34pHTSb9zoeHMyDy33+DWy5Wt9Wo+TURtOYSQ==