diff --git a/api/api/controllers/search_controller.py b/api/api/controllers/search_controller.py
index f0cf402e105..921b50400ee 100644
--- a/api/api/controllers/search_controller.py
+++ b/api/api/controllers/search_controller.py
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 from django.conf import settings
 from django.core.cache import cache
 
-from elasticsearch.exceptions import NotFoundError, RequestError
+from elasticsearch.exceptions import BadRequestError, NotFoundError
 from elasticsearch_dsl import Q, Search
 from elasticsearch_dsl.query import EMPTY_QUERY, MoreLikeThis, Query
 from elasticsearch_dsl.response import Hit, Response
@@ -447,7 +447,7 @@ def search(
 
         if settings.VERBOSE_ES_RESPONSE:
             log.info(pprint.pprint(search_response.to_dict()))
-    except (RequestError, NotFoundError) as e:
+    except (BadRequestError, NotFoundError) as e:
         raise ValueError(e)
 
     results = _post_process_results(
diff --git a/documentation/meta/monitoring/cloudwatch_logs/index.md b/documentation/meta/monitoring/cloudwatch_logs/index.md
index 5677e9e4c59..5d143e8becc 100644
--- a/documentation/meta/monitoring/cloudwatch_logs/index.md
+++ b/documentation/meta/monitoring/cloudwatch_logs/index.md
@@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ outputs stack traces, for example, this means that stack traces will be split
 across multiple lines. Take the following, real stack trace:
 
 ```
-2023-06-04T00:32:12.485Z	2023-06-04 00:32:12,485 ERROR tasks.py:220 - Error processing task `CREATE_AND_POPULATE_FILTERED_INDEX` for `audio`: RequestError(400, 'search_phase_execution_exception', 'too_many_clauses: maxClauseCount is set to 1024')
+2023-06-04T00:32:12.485Z	2023-06-04 00:32:12,485 ERROR tasks.py:220 - Error processing task `CREATE_AND_POPULATE_FILTERED_INDEX` for `audio`: BadRequestError(400, 'search_phase_execution_exception', 'too_many_clauses: maxClauseCount is set to 1024')
 2023-06-04T00:32:12.539Z	Process Process-5:
 2023-06-04T00:32:12.541Z	Traceback (most recent call last):
 2023-06-04T00:32:12.541Z	File "/usr/local/lib/python3.11/multiprocessing/process.py", line 314, in _bootstrap
@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ across multiple lines. Take the following, real stack trace:
 2023-06-04T00:32:12.541Z	self._raise_error(response.status_code, raw_data)
 2023-06-04T00:32:12.541Z	File "/venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/elasticsearch/connection/base.py", line 328, in _raise_error
 2023-06-04T00:32:12.541Z	raise HTTP_EXCEPTIONS.get(status_code, TransportError)(
-2023-06-04T00:32:12.541Z	elasticsearch.exceptions.RequestError: RequestError(400, 'search_phase_execution_exception', 'too_many_clauses: maxClauseCount is set to 1024')
+2023-06-04T00:32:12.541Z	elasticsearch.exceptions.BadRequestError: BadRequestError(400, 'search_phase_execution_exception', 'too_many_clauses: maxClauseCount is set to 1024')
 ```
 
 Each line (prepended with a timestamp), is a separate log event. The implication