diff --git a/packages/fxa-content-server/server/lib/configuration.js b/packages/fxa-content-server/server/lib/configuration.js
index 1edb616360d..587153b5d8b 100644
--- a/packages/fxa-content-server/server/lib/configuration.js
+++ b/packages/fxa-content-server/server/lib/configuration.js
@@ -718,8 +718,8 @@ const conf = (module.exports = convict({
       format: String,
     },
     timeout: {
-      default: 200,
-      doc: 'Amount of time in milliseconds to wait for a response from cirrus',
+      default: 400,
+      doc: 'Amount of time in milliseconds to wait for a response from cirrus.',
       env: 'NIMBUS_CIRRUS_TIMEOUT',
       format: Number,
     },
diff --git a/packages/fxa-content-server/server/lib/routes/post-nimbus-experiments.js b/packages/fxa-content-server/server/lib/routes/post-nimbus-experiments.js
index 7fc18178eff..fb9e3b7e29f 100644
--- a/packages/fxa-content-server/server/lib/routes/post-nimbus-experiments.js
+++ b/packages/fxa-content-server/server/lib/routes/post-nimbus-experiments.js
@@ -60,22 +60,29 @@ module.exports = function (config, statsd) {
           statsd.increment('cirrus.experiment-fetch-success');
         }
       } catch (err) {
-        Sentry.captureException(err, {
-          tags: {
-            source: 'nimbus-experiments',
-          },
-        });
+        const isTimeout = err.name === 'AbortError' || err.name === 'TimeoutError';
+
+        if (statsd) {
+          statsd.increment('cirrus.experiment-fetch-error');
+
+          if (isTimeout) {
+            statsd.increment('cirrus.experiment-fetch-timeout');
+          }
+        }
+
+        if (!isTimeout) {
+          Sentry.captureException(err, {
+            tags: {
+              source: 'nimbus-experiments',
+            }
+          });
+        }
 
         // Return a 'service unavailable' error. We essentially failed
         // to communicate with the cirrus server, so experiments are
         // now unavailable...
         res.status(503);
         res.end();
-
-        // Record failure
-        if (statsd) {
-          statsd.increment('cirrus.experiment-fetch-error');
-        }
       } finally {
         clearTimeout(timeoutId);