diff --git a/plugin-server/src/main/ingestion-queues/session-recording/services/overflow-manager.ts b/plugin-server/src/main/ingestion-queues/session-recording/services/overflow-manager.ts
index de9027cee4058..f7a10a6a63593 100644
--- a/plugin-server/src/main/ingestion-queues/session-recording/services/overflow-manager.ts
+++ b/plugin-server/src/main/ingestion-queues/session-recording/services/overflow-manager.ts
@@ -50,5 +50,11 @@ export class OverflowManager {
         // The zset value is a timestamp in seconds.
         const expiration = (now ?? Date.now()) / 1000 + this.cooldownSeconds
         await this.redisClient.zadd(this.redisKey, 'NX', expiration, key)
+
+        // Cleanup old entries with values expired more than one hour ago.
+        // We run the cleanup here because we assume this will only run a dozen times per day per region.
+        // If this code path becomes too hot, it should move to a singleton loop.
+        const expired = (now ?? Date.now()) / 1000 - 3600
+        await this.redisClient.zremrangebyscore(this.redisKey, 0, expired)
     }
 }
diff --git a/plugin-server/tests/main/ingestion-queues/session-recording/session-recordings-consumer.test.ts b/plugin-server/tests/main/ingestion-queues/session-recording/session-recordings-consumer.test.ts
index e4ff5f8522b20..730fe28f481ac 100644
--- a/plugin-server/tests/main/ingestion-queues/session-recording/session-recordings-consumer.test.ts
+++ b/plugin-server/tests/main/ingestion-queues/session-recording/session-recordings-consumer.test.ts
@@ -611,6 +611,22 @@ describe('ingester', () => {
             await ingestBurst(10, 150_000, 150_000)
             expect(await redisConn.exists(CAPTURE_OVERFLOW_REDIS_KEY)).toEqual(0)
         })
+
+        it('should cleanup older entries when triggering', async () => {
+            await redisConn.zadd(CAPTURE_OVERFLOW_REDIS_KEY, 'NX', Date.now() / 1000 - 7000, 'expired:session')
+            await redisConn.zadd(CAPTURE_OVERFLOW_REDIS_KEY, 'NX', Date.now() / 1000 - 1000, 'not_expired:session')
+            expect(await redisConn.zrange(CAPTURE_OVERFLOW_REDIS_KEY, 0, -1)).toEqual([
+                'expired:session',
+                'not_expired:session',
+            ])
+
+            await ingestBurst(10, 150_000, 10)
+            expect(await redisConn.exists(CAPTURE_OVERFLOW_REDIS_KEY)).toEqual(1)
+            expect(await redisConn.zrange(CAPTURE_OVERFLOW_REDIS_KEY, 0, -1)).toEqual([
+                'not_expired:session',
+                `${team.id}:sid1`,
+            ])
+        })
     })
 
     describe('lag reporting', () => {