diff --git a/src/main/java/com/cloudbees/syslog/sender/TcpSyslogMessageSender.java b/src/main/java/com/cloudbees/syslog/sender/TcpSyslogMessageSender.java
index 249556f..48b8be9 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/cloudbees/syslog/sender/TcpSyslogMessageSender.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/cloudbees/syslog/sender/TcpSyslogMessageSender.java
@@ -112,11 +112,11 @@ public synchronized void sendMessage(@NonNull SyslogMessage message) throws IOEx
             }
             if (lastException != null) {
                 sendErrorCounter.incrementAndGet();
-                if (lastException instanceof IOException) {
-                    throw (IOException) lastException;
-                } else if (lastException instanceof RuntimeException) {
-                    throw (RuntimeException) lastException;
-                }
+            }
+            if (lastException instanceof IOException) {
+                throw (IOException) lastException;
+            } else if (lastException instanceof RuntimeException) {
+                throw (RuntimeException) lastException;
             }
         } finally {
             sendDurationInNanosCounter.addAndGet(System.nanoTime() - nanosBefore);
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/cloudbees/syslog/util/IoUtils.java b/src/main/java/com/cloudbees/syslog/util/IoUtils.java
index ec983fe..6d38a10 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/cloudbees/syslog/util/IoUtils.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/cloudbees/syslog/util/IoUtils.java
@@ -24,6 +24,8 @@
  * @author <a href="mailto:cleclerc@cloudbees.com">Cyrille Le Clerc</a>
  */
 public class IoUtils {
+    private static final InternalLogger logger = InternalLogger.getLogger(IoUtils.class);
+
     private IoUtils() {
 
     }
@@ -34,6 +36,7 @@ public static void closeQuietly(@Nullable Socket socket) {
                 socket.close();
             }
         } catch (Exception e) {
+            logger.warn("Exception while closing the socket "+socket, e);
         }
     }
 
@@ -48,7 +51,7 @@ public static void closeQuietly(@Nullable Socket socket, @Nullable Writer writer
             try {
                 writer.close();
             } catch (IOException e) {
-
+                logger.warn("Exception while closing writer for socket "+socket, e);
             }
         }
         closeQuietly(socket);
diff --git a/src/test/java/com/cloudbees/syslog/util/IoUtilsTest.java b/src/test/java/com/cloudbees/syslog/util/IoUtilsTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..96076c1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/java/com/cloudbees/syslog/util/IoUtilsTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+package com.cloudbees.syslog.util;
+
+import static org.hamcrest.MatcherAssert.assertThat;
+import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.is;
+import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
+import java.io.OutputStreamWriter;
+import java.io.Writer;
+import java.net.Socket;
+
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+public class IoUtilsTest {
+
+	@Test
+	public void testCloseQuietlyWithSocket() {
+		Socket socket = new Socket();
+		IoUtils.closeQuietly(socket);
+		assertThat(socket.isClosed(), is(true));
+
+	}
+
+	@Test
+	public void testCloseQuietlyWithNullSocket() {
+		IoUtils.closeQuietly(null);
+		// No exception should be thrown for null socket
+	}
+
+	@Test
+	public void testCloseQuietlyWithSocketAndWriter() {
+		Socket socket = new Socket();
+		Writer writer = new OutputStreamWriter(new ByteArrayOutputStream());
+
+		IoUtils.closeQuietly(socket, writer);
+		assertThat(socket.isClosed(), is(true));
+		// Since we don't mock the writer, we can't directly verify if it's closed
+		// However, we know that the method should execute without throwing exceptions
+
+	}
+
+	@Test
+	public void testCloseQuietlyWithNullSocketAndNullWriter() {
+		IoUtils.closeQuietly(null, null);
+		// No exception should be thrown for null socket and null writer
+	}
+
+	@Test
+	public void testCloseQuietlyWithSocketAndNullWriter() {
+		Socket socket = new Socket();
+		IoUtils.closeQuietly(socket, null);
+		assertThat(socket.isClosed(), is(true));
+
+	}
+}
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