From c44244c2015234fcccd74f255b182326a4238735 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Filip Nikolovski <filip.nikolovski@jwplayer.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2024 13:28:16 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] fix exceptions to not be masked as 500 on every thrown
 exception

---
 .../opentelemetry/instrumentation/falcon/__init__.py  | 11 +++++++++--
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-falcon/src/opentelemetry/instrumentation/falcon/__init__.py b/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-falcon/src/opentelemetry/instrumentation/falcon/__init__.py
index 429db76d9f..2069e6e55f 100644
--- a/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-falcon/src/opentelemetry/instrumentation/falcon/__init__.py
+++ b/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-falcon/src/opentelemetry/instrumentation/falcon/__init__.py
@@ -516,14 +516,21 @@ def process_response(self, req, resp, resource, req_succeeded=None):  # pylint:d
         if resource is None:
             status = "404"
         else:
+            exc_type, exc = None, None
             if _ENVIRON_EXC in req.env:
                 exc = req.env[_ENVIRON_EXC]
                 exc_type = type(exc)
-            else:
-                exc_type, exc = None, None
+
             if exc_type and not req_succeeded:
                 if "HTTPNotFound" in exc_type.__name__:
                     status = "404"
+                elif isinstance(exc, falcon.HTTPError) or isinstance(
+                    exc, falcon.HTTPStatus
+                ):
+                    try:
+                        status = exc.title.split(" ")[0]
+                    except ValueError:
+                        status = "500"
                 else:
                     status = "500"