diff --git a/reactor-netty-http/src/main/java/reactor/netty/http/server/AbstractHttpServerMetricsHandler.java b/reactor-netty-http/src/main/java/reactor/netty/http/server/AbstractHttpServerMetricsHandler.java
index d9daefc73e..7f07157d40 100644
--- a/reactor-netty-http/src/main/java/reactor/netty/http/server/AbstractHttpServerMetricsHandler.java
+++ b/reactor-netty-http/src/main/java/reactor/netty/http/server/AbstractHttpServerMetricsHandler.java
@@ -119,24 +119,30 @@ public void write(ChannelHandlerContext ctx, Object msg, ChannelPromise promise)
 
 			if (msg instanceof LastHttpContent) {
 				promise.addListener(future -> {
-					try {
-						ChannelOperations<?, ?> channelOps = ChannelOperations.get(ctx.channel());
-						if (channelOps instanceof HttpServerOperations) {
-							HttpServerOperations ops = (HttpServerOperations) channelOps;
+					ChannelOperations<?, ?> channelOps = ChannelOperations.get(ctx.channel());
+					if (channelOps instanceof HttpServerOperations) {
+						HttpServerOperations ops = (HttpServerOperations) channelOps;
+						try {
 							recordWrite(ops, uriTagValue == null ? ops.path : uriTagValue.apply(ops.path),
 									ops.method().name(), ops.status().codeAsText().toString());
-							if (!ops.isHttp2() && ops.hostAddress() != null) {
-								// This metric is not applicable for HTTP/2
-								// ops.hostAddress() == null when request decoding failed, in this case
-								// we do not report active connection, so we do not report inactive connection
+						}
+						catch (RuntimeException e) {
+							log.warn("Exception caught while recording metrics.", e);
+							// Allow request-response exchange to continue, unaffected by metrics problem
+						}
+						if (!ops.isHttp2() && ops.hostAddress() != null) {
+							// This metric is not applicable for HTTP/2
+							// ops.hostAddress() == null when request decoding failed, in this case
+							// we do not report active connection, so we do not report inactive connection
+							try {
 								recordInactiveConnection(ops);
 							}
+							catch (RuntimeException e) {
+								log.warn("Exception caught while recording metrics.", e);
+								// Allow request-response exchange to continue, unaffected by metrics problem
+							}
 						}
 					}
-					catch (RuntimeException e) {
-						log.warn("Exception caught while recording metrics.", e);
-						// Allow request-response exchange to continue, unaffected by metrics problem
-					}
 
 					dataSent = 0;
 				});