diff --git a/litellm/integrations/custom_guardrail.py b/litellm/integrations/custom_guardrail.py
index e70907b3bb4..27e941dc245 100644
--- a/litellm/integrations/custom_guardrail.py
+++ b/litellm/integrations/custom_guardrail.py
@@ -1038,7 +1038,18 @@ class CustomGuardrail(CustomLogger):
             "metadata": scratch_metadata,
         }
         if self.logging_only_scope != "output":
-            await translation.process_input_messages(data=scratch_request, guardrail_to_apply=self)
+            if self.logging_only_scope == "both":
+                # An explicitly configured "both" observer asked for a verdict on
+                # each direction, so a failed request scan must not silently drop
+                # the response verdict. The implicit default (logging_only_scope
+                # None) keeps the abort semantics of a logging_only hook whose
+                # scan raised.
+                try:
+                    await translation.process_input_messages(data=scratch_request, guardrail_to_apply=self)
+                except Exception as e:  # noqa: BLE001  # one direction's scan failure must not drop the other direction's verdict
+                    verbose_logger.warning("Guardrail %s: logging_only scan raised: %s", self.guardrail_name, e)
+            else:
+                await translation.process_input_messages(data=scratch_request, guardrail_to_apply=self)
         if response is None or self.logging_only_scope == "input":
             return
         await output_translation.process_output_response(
diff --git a/tests/unit/integrations/test_custom_guardrail.py b/tests/unit/integrations/test_custom_guardrail.py
index f91709df35f..fa47fb79820 100644
--- a/tests/unit/integrations/test_custom_guardrail.py
+++ b/tests/unit/integrations/test_custom_guardrail.py
@@ -2654,9 +2654,6 @@ class TestLoggingOnlyApplyGuardrail:
 
         out_kwargs, _ = await guardrail.async_logging_hook(kwargs, response, CallTypes.acompletion.value)
 
-        # A raising input scan aborts the hook: the response scan must not run,
-        # and exactly one intervened verdict is recorded (base semantics for a
-        # guardrail that never selected a logging_only_scope).
         assert guardrail.calls == [("request", ["flagged content"])]
         entries = out_kwargs["standard_logging_object"]["guardrail_information"]
         assert [e["guardrail_status"] for e in entries] == ["guardrail_intervened"]
@@ -2680,6 +2677,26 @@ class TestLoggingOnlyApplyGuardrail:
         entries = out_kwargs["standard_logging_object"]["guardrail_information"]
         assert [e["guardrail_status"] for e in entries] == ["guardrail_failed_to_respond"]
 
+    @pytest.mark.asyncio
+    async def test_input_scan_error_does_not_drop_the_response_scan_for_explicit_both_scope(self):
+        class _FailingBothObserver(_ApplyOnlyObserver):
+            @log_guardrail_information
+            async def apply_guardrail(self, inputs, request_data, input_type, logging_obj=None):
+                self.calls.append((input_type, list(inputs.get("texts") or [])))
+                if input_type == "request":
+                    raise RuntimeError("guardrail service unavailable")
+                return GenericGuardrailAPIInputs(texts=[])
+
+        guardrail = _FailingBothObserver()
+        guardrail.logging_only_scope = "both"
+        kwargs, response = _logged_call([{"role": "user", "content": "hello there"}])
+
+        out_kwargs, _ = await guardrail.async_logging_hook(kwargs, response, CallTypes.acompletion.value)
+
+        assert guardrail.calls == [("request", ["hello there"]), ("response", ["general kenobi"])]
+        entries = out_kwargs["standard_logging_object"]["guardrail_information"]
+        assert [e["guardrail_status"] for e in entries] == ["guardrail_failed_to_respond", "success"]
+
     @pytest.mark.asyncio
     async def test_call_type_without_translation_is_skipped(self):
         guardrail = _ApplyOnlyObserver()
diff --git a/tests/unit/proxy/guardrails/test_guardrail_registry.py b/tests/unit/proxy/guardrails/test_guardrail_registry.py
index e5ede1587bc..86936c61382 100644
--- a/tests/unit/proxy/guardrails/test_guardrail_registry.py
+++ b/tests/unit/proxy/guardrails/test_guardrail_registry.py
@@ -428,7 +428,6 @@ def test_sync_guardrail_from_db_reject_flag_keeps_callback_order_on_noop_update(
         handler.initialize_guardrail(guardrail=_mode_following_db_row("123", "pre_call"), source="db")
         original = handler.guardrail_id_to_custom_guardrail["123"]
         assert original is not None
-        # Park another callback after the guardrail so a re-append would be visible.
         litellm.callbacks.append(sentinel)
         index_before = litellm.callbacks.index(original)