diff --git a/changelog.d/+convert-exceptions-to-messages.changed.md b/changelog.d/+convert-exceptions-to-messages.changed.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e6cda47ab
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog.d/+convert-exceptions-to-messages.changed.md
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Htmx: Otherwise uncaught exceptions are caught, logged and converted to messages.error.
diff --git a/src/argus/htmx/middleware.py b/src/argus/htmx/middleware.py
index cec287c91..25892fbfd 100644
--- a/src/argus/htmx/middleware.py
+++ b/src/argus/htmx/middleware.py
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+import logging
+
 from django.conf import settings
 from django.contrib.auth.views import redirect_to_login
 from django.http import HttpResponse
@@ -6,8 +8,11 @@
 from django.utils.encoding import force_str
 from django_htmx.http import HttpResponseClientRedirect
 from django.contrib import messages
+
 from .request import HtmxHttpRequest
 
+LOG = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
 
 class LoginRequiredMiddleware:
     def __init__(self, get_response):
@@ -61,6 +66,14 @@ class HtmxMessageMiddleware(MiddlewareMixin):
 
     TEMPLATE = "messages/_notification_messages_htmx_append.html"
 
+    def process_exception(self, request, exception):
+        error_msg = "500 Internal Server Error"
+        if str(exception):
+            error_msg += f": {exception}"
+        messages.error(request, error_msg)
+        LOG.error(error_msg)
+        return None
+
     def process_response(self, request: HtmxHttpRequest, response: HttpResponse) -> HttpResponse:
         if not request.htmx:
             return response
@@ -84,7 +97,13 @@ def process_response(self, request: HtmxHttpRequest, response: HttpResponse) ->
             has_error_message = any("error" in message.tags for message in storage)
             storage.used = False
             if not has_error_message:
-                messages.error(request, "An error occured while processing your request, please try again")
+                error_msg = getattr(response, "content", b"")
+                if isinstance(error_msg, bytes):
+                    error_msg = error_msg.decode("utf-8")
+                if not error_msg:
+                    error_msg = f"{response.status_code} {response.reason_phrase}"
+                messages.error(request, f"An unexpected error occured: {error_msg}. Please try again")
+                LOG.error("Unhandled exception: %s", error_msg)
             # HTMX doesn't swap content for response codes >=400. However, we do want to show
             # the new messages, so we need to rewrite the response to 200, and make sure it only
             # swaps the oob notification content