diff --git a/litellm/proxy/db/exception_handler.py b/litellm/proxy/db/exception_handler.py
index 379e0012ea8..5e05d75cc13 100644
--- a/litellm/proxy/db/exception_handler.py
+++ b/litellm/proxy/db/exception_handler.py
@@ -203,6 +203,8 @@ class PrismaDBExceptionHandler:
             ),
         ):
             return True
+        if PrismaDBExceptionHandler.is_prisma_engine_internal_error(e):
+            return True
         if PrismaDBExceptionHandler.is_database_capacity_error(e):
             return False
         if isinstance(e, _exception_types(prisma.errors.PrismaError)):
diff --git a/tests/unit/proxy/db/test_exception_handler.py b/tests/unit/proxy/db/test_exception_handler.py
index 75346ca08a6..fc0ffb0b64d 100644
--- a/tests/unit/proxy/db/test_exception_handler.py
+++ b/tests/unit/proxy/db/test_exception_handler.py
@@ -195,6 +195,7 @@ def test_is_database_service_unavailable_error_prisma_engine_malformed_payload()
 
     assert "no attribute 'get'" in str(exc_info.value)
     assert PrismaDBExceptionHandler.is_database_service_unavailable_error(exc_info.value) is True
+    assert PrismaDBExceptionHandler.is_database_transport_error(exc_info.value) is True
 
 
 def test_is_prisma_engine_internal_error_excludes_application_attributeerror():