diff --git a/litellm/litellm_core_utils/redact_messages.py b/litellm/litellm_core_utils/redact_messages.py
index 340bcf32c3b..0b028ccec4a 100644
--- a/litellm/litellm_core_utils/redact_messages.py
+++ b/litellm/litellm_core_utils/redact_messages.py
@@ -447,22 +447,22 @@ def _redacted_responses_api_response(
 
 _REQUEST_TEXT_KEYS: Final = ("messages", "input", "prompt", "system", "instructions")
 _STRUCTURAL_KEYS: Final = frozenset({"role", "type", "id", "tool_call_id", "name"})
-_MIN_SCRUBBED_TEXT_LENGTH: Final = 4
+_MIN_UNQUOTED_TEXT_LENGTH: Final = 4
 _ECHO_FRAGMENT_LENGTH: Final = 24
 _MAX_SCRUB_COMPARISONS: Final = 10_000_000
 
 
 def request_texts(*values: object) -> frozenset[str]:
     """
-    The strings a request carries under ``values``, skipping structural fields such as ``role`` and
-    ``type`` and strings too short to point at the prompt.
+    The non-empty strings a request carries under ``values``, skipping structural fields such as ``role``
+    and ``type``.
     """
     texts: Final[set[str]] = set()  # mutable-ok: filled by the walk below
     pending: Final[list[object]] = list(values)  # mutable-ok: the walk's work stack
     while pending:
         value = pending.pop()
         if isinstance(value, str):
-            if len(value) >= _MIN_SCRUBBED_TEXT_LENGTH:
+            if value:
                 texts.add(value)
         elif (mapping := _as_mapping(value)) is not None:
             pending.extend(item for key, item in mapping.items() if key not in _STRUCTURAL_KEYS)
@@ -508,7 +508,13 @@ def scrub_request_text(text: str, texts: Collection[str]) -> str:
     quoted: Final = sorted((form for form in forms if form in text), key=len, reverse=True)
     if not quoted:
         return text
-    return re.sub("|".join(map(re.escape, quoted)), REDACTED_BY_LITELLM, text)
+    return re.sub("|".join(map(_echo_pattern, quoted)), REDACTED_BY_LITELLM, text)
+
+
+def _echo_pattern(form: str) -> str:
+    """A quote of ``form``. A form short enough to occur in ordinary wording only counts between quotes."""
+    escaped: Final = re.escape(form)
+    return escaped if len(form) >= _MIN_UNQUOTED_TEXT_LENGTH else f"(?<=['\"]){escaped}(?=['\"])"
 
 
 def scrubbed_error_information(
@@ -553,16 +559,19 @@ def scrubbed_error_fields(payload: Mapping[str, object], texts: Collection[str])
 def scrubbed_exception_text(model_call_details: Mapping[str, object]) -> tuple[str, str] | None:
     """
     The error message and traceback a failure payload logged when redaction scrubbed the request's text
-    out of them, for callbacks that would otherwise record the raw exception. ``None`` when nothing was
+    out of either, for callbacks that would otherwise record the raw exception. ``None`` when nothing was
     scrubbed.
     """
     payload: Final = _as_mapping(model_call_details.get("standard_logging_object")) or {}
     error_information: Final = _as_mapping(payload.get("error_information")) or {}
     message: Final = error_information.get("error_message")
-    if not isinstance(message, str) or REDACTED_BY_LITELLM not in message:
-        return None
     traceback_text: Final = error_information.get("traceback")
-    return message, traceback_text if isinstance(traceback_text, str) else ""
+    if not any(isinstance(text, str) and REDACTED_BY_LITELLM in text for text in (message, traceback_text)):
+        return None
+    return (
+        message if isinstance(message, str) else "",
+        traceback_text if isinstance(traceback_text, str) else "",
+    )
 
 
 def redacted_standard_logging_payload(payload: Mapping[str, object]) -> Mapping[str, object]:
@@ -851,26 +860,27 @@ def should_redact_message_logging(model_call_details: dict) -> bool:
 def should_redact_failure_logging(model_call_details: Mapping[str, object]) -> bool:
     """
     ``should_redact_message_logging`` for the failure path, which must log the failure whatever the
-    request carried. Headers that are not a mapping make the payload build fail on the success and
-    failure paths alike, so the failure is logged unredacted, as before.
+    request carried. Headers that are not a mapping carry no redaction header, so the request's own
+    setting or the global one decides.
     """
     try:
         return should_redact_message_logging(dict(model_call_details))
     except AttributeError:
-        return False
+        dynamic_turn_off: Final = _get_turn_off_message_logging_from_dynamic_params(dict(model_call_details))
+        return dynamic_turn_off if dynamic_turn_off is not None else litellm.turn_off_message_logging is True
 
 
 def should_redact_failed_request(request_data: Mapping[str, object]) -> bool:
     """
     The redaction decision for proxy failure hooks, which get the request body but not its logging
-    object: the same metadata, headers and dynamic params the logging object would read. Callback
-    params the logging object rejects leave the failure unredacted, as before.
+    object: the same metadata, headers and dynamic params the logging object would read. When the
+    logging object would reject the request's callback params, the global setting decides.
     """
     body: Final = dict(request_data)
     try:
         dynamic_params: Final = initialize_standard_callback_dynamic_params(body)
     except ValueError:
-        return False
+        return litellm.turn_off_message_logging is True
     return should_redact_failure_logging(
         {
             "litellm_params": {key: body[key] for key in ("metadata", "litellm_metadata") if key in body},
diff --git a/tests/unit/litellm_core_utils/test_litellm_logging.py b/tests/unit/litellm_core_utils/test_litellm_logging.py
index b4378e12ec1..f40d11d3b23 100644
--- a/tests/unit/litellm_core_utils/test_litellm_logging.py
+++ b/tests/unit/litellm_core_utils/test_litellm_logging.py
@@ -11782,9 +11782,10 @@ async def test_failure_with_non_mapping_headers_is_still_logged(monkeypatch, hea
     monkeypatch.setattr(litellm, "_async_failure_callback", [capture])
     logging_obj: Final = _prompt_failure_logging_obj({"metadata": {"headers": headers}})
 
-    await logging_obj.async_failure_handler(_prompt_echo_error(), "Traceback")
+    await logging_obj.async_failure_handler(_prompt_echo_error(), f"Traceback: {SCRUB_PROMPT}")
 
     assert capture.async_kwargs is not None
+    assert (SCRUB_PROMPT in capture.async_kwargs["traceback_exception"]) is not redact
 
 
 def test_sync_failure_hands_callbacks_and_langfuse_the_scrubbed_error(monkeypatch):
diff --git a/tests/unit/litellm_core_utils/test_redact_messages.py b/tests/unit/litellm_core_utils/test_redact_messages.py
index 8eedd755e60..a555a5c73e3 100644
--- a/tests/unit/litellm_core_utils/test_redact_messages.py
+++ b/tests/unit/litellm_core_utils/test_redact_messages.py
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ from litellm.litellm_core_utils.redact_messages import (
     request_texts,
     scrub_request_text,
     scrubbed_error_information_for_request,
+    scrubbed_exception_text,
     should_redact_failed_request,
     should_redact_message_logging,
 )
@@ -2102,6 +2103,12 @@ def test_scrub_request_text_leaves_an_error_that_does_not_quote_the_prompt() ->
     assert scrub_request_text("Incorrect API key provided", request_texts(PROMPT, "hi")) == "Incorrect API key provided"
 
 
+def test_scrub_request_text_replaces_a_short_text_only_between_quotes() -> None:
+    scrubbed: Final = scrub_request_text("Invalid value '432' and \"432\"; 432 is too short", request_texts("432"))
+
+    assert scrubbed == "Invalid value 'redacted-by-litellm' and \"redacted-by-litellm\"; 432 is too short"
+
+
 def test_scrub_request_text_replaces_the_whole_text_when_the_search_is_too_large() -> None:
     texts: Final = request_texts([f"message number {index}" for index in range(5_000)])
 
@@ -2139,12 +2146,36 @@ def test_should_redact_failed_request_follows_the_request_opt_ins(request_data:
     [{"metadata": {"headers": "x"}}, {"turn_off_message_logging": "os.environ/REDACT"}],
     ids=["non_mapping_headers", "env_reference"],
 )
-def test_should_redact_failed_request_leaves_an_undecidable_request_unredacted(
-    monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch, request_data: dict
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("global_redaction", [True, False], ids=["global_on", "global_off"])
+def test_should_redact_failed_request_falls_back_to_the_global_setting_for_an_undecidable_request(
+    monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch, request_data: dict, global_redaction: bool
 ) -> None:
-    monkeypatch.setattr(litellm, "turn_off_message_logging", True)
+    monkeypatch.setattr(litellm, "turn_off_message_logging", global_redaction)
 
-    assert should_redact_failed_request(request_data) is False
+    assert should_redact_failed_request(request_data) is global_redaction
+
+
+def test_should_redact_failed_request_reads_the_request_setting_past_non_mapping_headers(
+    monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch,
+) -> None:
+    monkeypatch.setattr(litellm, "turn_off_message_logging", False)
+
+    assert should_redact_failed_request({"metadata": {"headers": "x"}, "turn_off_message_logging": True}) is True
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    "error_information",
+    [
+        {"error_message": "bad: redacted-by-litellm", "traceback": "tb"},
+        {"error_message": "bad input", "traceback": "tb redacted-by-litellm"},
+    ],
+    ids=["message", "traceback_only"],
+)
+def test_scrubbed_exception_text_reports_a_scrub_of_either_field(error_information: dict) -> None:
+    logged: Final = scrubbed_exception_text({"standard_logging_object": {"error_information": error_information}})
+
+    assert logged == (error_information["error_message"], error_information["traceback"])
+    assert scrubbed_exception_text({"standard_logging_object": {"error_information": {"error_message": "bad"}}}) is None
 
 
 def test_scrubbed_error_information_for_request_scrubs_only_when_the_request_redacts() -> None: