diff --git a/posthog/asgi.py b/posthog/asgi.py
index 22912a0c7b76e..f048520a2e6fc 100644
--- a/posthog/asgi.py
+++ b/posthog/asgi.py
@@ -1,8 +1,21 @@
 import os
 
 from django.core.asgi import get_asgi_application
+from django.http.response import HttpResponse
 
 os.environ.setdefault("DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE", "posthog.settings")
 os.environ.setdefault("SERVER_GATEWAY_INTERFACE", "ASGI")
 
-application = get_asgi_application()
+
+# Django doesn't support lifetime requests and raises an exception
+# when it receives them. This creates a lot of noise in sentry so
+# intercept these requests and return a 501 error without raising an exception
+def lifetime_wrapper(func):
+    async def inner(scope, receive, send):
+        if scope["type"] != "http":
+            return HttpResponse(status=501)
+        return await func(scope, receive, send)
+    return inner
+
+
+application = lifetime_wrapper(get_asgi_application())