diff --git a/litellm/integrations/sqs.py b/litellm/integrations/sqs.py
index 2a0c73dfdbf..8a2ebf8d344 100644
--- a/litellm/integrations/sqs.py
+++ b/litellm/integrations/sqs.py
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ This logger sends ``StandardLoggingPayload`` entries to an AWS SQS queue.
 from __future__ import annotations
 
 import asyncio
+import traceback
 from typing import List, Optional
 
 import litellm
@@ -200,6 +201,25 @@ class SQSLogger(CustomBatchLogger, BaseAWSLLM):
         except Exception as e:
             verbose_logger.exception(f"sqs Layer Error - {str(e)}")
 
+    async def async_log_failure_event(self, kwargs, response_obj, start_time, end_time):
+        try:
+            standard_logging_payload = kwargs.get("standard_logging_object")
+            if standard_logging_payload is None:
+                raise ValueError("standard_logging_payload is None")
+
+            self.log_queue.append(standard_logging_payload)
+            verbose_logger.debug(
+                "sqs logging: queue length %s, batch size %s",
+                len(self.log_queue),
+                self.batch_size,
+            )
+
+        except Exception as e:
+            verbose_logger.exception(
+                f"Datadog Layer Error - {str(e)}\n{traceback.format_exc()}"
+            )
+            pass
+
     async def async_send_batch(self) -> None:
         verbose_logger.debug(
             f"sqs logger - sending batch of {len(self.log_queue)}"
diff --git a/tests/logging_callback_tests/test_sqs_logger.py b/tests/logging_callback_tests/test_sqs_logger.py
index a3fe09b2a51..38d730712f3 100644
--- a/tests/logging_callback_tests/test_sqs_logger.py
+++ b/tests/logging_callback_tests/test_sqs_logger.py
@@ -71,3 +71,66 @@ async def test_async_sqs_logger_flush():
     assert len(payload_data["messages"]) == 1
     assert payload_data["messages"][0]["role"] == "user"
     assert payload_data["messages"][0]["content"] == "hello"
+
+
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_async_sqs_logger_error_flush():
+    expected_queue_url = "https://sqs.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/123456789012/test-queue"
+    expected_region = "us-east-1"
+
+    sqs_logger = SQSLogger(
+        sqs_queue_url=expected_queue_url,
+        sqs_region_name=expected_region,
+        sqs_flush_interval=1,
+    )
+
+    # Mock the httpx client
+    mock_response = MagicMock()
+    mock_response.raise_for_status = Exception("Something went wrong")
+    sqs_logger.async_httpx_client.post = AsyncMock(return_value=mock_response)
+
+    litellm.callbacks = [sqs_logger]
+
+    await litellm.acompletion(
+        model="gpt-4o",
+        messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "hello"}],
+        mock_response="Error occurred"
+    )
+
+    await asyncio.sleep(2)
+
+    # Verify that httpx post was called
+    sqs_logger.async_httpx_client.post.assert_called()
+
+    # Get the call arguments
+    call_args = sqs_logger.async_httpx_client.post.call_args
+
+    # Verify the URL is correct
+    called_url = call_args[0][0]  # First positional argument
+    assert called_url == expected_queue_url, f"Expected URL {expected_queue_url}, got {called_url}"
+
+    # Verify the payload contains StandardLoggingPayload data
+    called_data = call_args.kwargs['data']
+
+    # Extract the MessageBody from the URL-encoded data
+    # Format: "Action=SendMessage&Version=2012-11-05&MessageBody=<url_encoded_json>"
+    assert "Action=SendMessage" in called_data
+    assert "Version=2012-11-05" in called_data
+    assert "MessageBody=" in called_data
+
+    # Extract and decode the message body
+    message_body_start = called_data.find("MessageBody=") + len("MessageBody=")
+    message_body_encoded = called_data[message_body_start:]
+    message_body_json = unquote(message_body_encoded)
+
+    # Parse the JSON to verify it's a StandardLoggingPayload
+    payload_data = json.loads(message_body_json)
+
+    # Verify it has the expected StandardLoggingPayload structure
+    assert "model" in payload_data
+    assert "messages" in payload_data
+    assert "response" in payload_data
+    assert payload_data["model"] == "gpt-4o"
+    assert len(payload_data["messages"]) == 1
+    assert payload_data["messages"][0]["role"] == "user"
+    assert payload_data["messages"][0]["content"] == "hello"