diff --git a/opensearch/src/main/java/org/opensearch/sql/opensearch/response/error/ErrorMessage.java b/opensearch/src/main/java/org/opensearch/sql/opensearch/response/error/ErrorMessage.java
index fbe6d3cd723..0717771d1ae 100644
--- a/opensearch/src/main/java/org/opensearch/sql/opensearch/response/error/ErrorMessage.java
+++ b/opensearch/src/main/java/org/opensearch/sql/opensearch/response/error/ErrorMessage.java
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 import lombok.Getter;
 import org.json.JSONObject;
 import org.opensearch.core.rest.RestStatus;
+import org.opensearch.core.tasks.TaskCancelledException;
 
 /** Error Message. */
 public class ErrorMessage {
@@ -37,6 +38,9 @@ private String fetchType() {
   }
 
   protected String fetchReason() {
+    if (exception instanceof TaskCancelledException) {
+      return "Query cancelled";
+    }
     return status == RestStatus.BAD_REQUEST.getStatus()
         ? "Invalid Query"
         : "There was internal problem at backend";
diff --git a/opensearch/src/main/java/org/opensearch/sql/opensearch/response/error/ErrorMessageFactory.java b/opensearch/src/main/java/org/opensearch/sql/opensearch/response/error/ErrorMessageFactory.java
index 8617f264f06..036122fc9f7 100644
--- a/opensearch/src/main/java/org/opensearch/sql/opensearch/response/error/ErrorMessageFactory.java
+++ b/opensearch/src/main/java/org/opensearch/sql/opensearch/response/error/ErrorMessageFactory.java
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 
 import lombok.experimental.UtilityClass;
 import org.opensearch.OpenSearchException;
+import org.opensearch.core.tasks.TaskCancelledException;
 
 @UtilityClass
 public class ErrorMessageFactory {
@@ -21,6 +22,9 @@ public class ErrorMessageFactory {
    */
   public static ErrorMessage createErrorMessage(Throwable e, int status) {
     Throwable cause = unwrapCause(e);
+    if (cause instanceof TaskCancelledException) {
+      return new ErrorMessage(cause, status);
+    }
     if (cause instanceof OpenSearchException) {
       OpenSearchException exception = (OpenSearchException) cause;
       return new OpenSearchErrorMessage(exception, exception.status().getStatus());
diff --git a/opensearch/src/test/java/org/opensearch/sql/opensearch/response/error/ErrorMessageFactoryTest.java b/opensearch/src/test/java/org/opensearch/sql/opensearch/response/error/ErrorMessageFactoryTest.java
index 6ffe6b275ce..52f6856c831 100644
--- a/opensearch/src/test/java/org/opensearch/sql/opensearch/response/error/ErrorMessageFactoryTest.java
+++ b/opensearch/src/test/java/org/opensearch/sql/opensearch/response/error/ErrorMessageFactoryTest.java
@@ -8,9 +8,11 @@
 import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertFalse;
 import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertTrue;
 
+import java.sql.SQLException;
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
 import org.opensearch.OpenSearchException;
 import org.opensearch.core.rest.RestStatus;
+import org.opensearch.core.tasks.TaskCancelledException;
 
 public class ErrorMessageFactoryTest {
   private final Throwable nonOpenSearchThrowable = new Throwable();
@@ -48,4 +50,26 @@ public void nonOpenSearchExceptionWithWrappedEsExceptionCauseShouldCreateEsError
         ErrorMessageFactory.createErrorMessage(exception, RestStatus.BAD_REQUEST.getStatus());
     assertTrue(msg instanceof OpenSearchErrorMessage);
   }
+
+  @Test
+  public void wrappedTaskCancelledExceptionShouldCreateGenericErrorMessageWithPassedStatus() {
+    TaskCancelledException cancelled = new TaskCancelledException("The task is cancelled.");
+    SQLException sqlEx = new SQLException("exception while executing query", cancelled);
+    RuntimeException wrapped = new RuntimeException(sqlEx);
+    ErrorMessage msg =
+        ErrorMessageFactory.createErrorMessage(wrapped, RestStatus.BAD_REQUEST.getStatus());
+    assertFalse(msg instanceof OpenSearchErrorMessage);
+    assertTrue(msg.toString().contains("\"status\": 400"));
+    assertTrue(msg.toString().contains("\"reason\": \"Query cancelled\""));
+  }
+
+  @Test
+  public void directTaskCancelledExceptionShouldCreateGenericErrorMessageWithPassedStatus() {
+    TaskCancelledException cancelled = new TaskCancelledException("The task is cancelled.");
+    ErrorMessage msg =
+        ErrorMessageFactory.createErrorMessage(cancelled, RestStatus.BAD_REQUEST.getStatus());
+    assertFalse(msg instanceof OpenSearchErrorMessage);
+    assertTrue(msg.toString().contains("\"status\": 400"));
+    assertTrue(msg.toString().contains("\"reason\": \"Query cancelled\""));
+  }
 }
diff --git a/plugin/src/main/java/org/opensearch/sql/plugin/rest/RestPPLQueryAction.java b/plugin/src/main/java/org/opensearch/sql/plugin/rest/RestPPLQueryAction.java
index ffdd90504f7..49a6154ee20 100644
--- a/plugin/src/main/java/org/opensearch/sql/plugin/rest/RestPPLQueryAction.java
+++ b/plugin/src/main/java/org/opensearch/sql/plugin/rest/RestPPLQueryAction.java
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 import org.opensearch.OpenSearchException;
 import org.opensearch.core.action.ActionListener;
 import org.opensearch.core.rest.RestStatus;
+import org.opensearch.core.tasks.TaskCancelledException;
 import org.opensearch.index.IndexNotFoundException;
 import org.opensearch.rest.BaseRestHandler;
 import org.opensearch.rest.BytesRestResponse;
@@ -59,7 +60,17 @@ private static boolean isClientError(Exception e) {
         || e instanceof QueryEngineException
         || e instanceof SyntaxCheckException
         || e instanceof DataSourceClientException
-        || e instanceof IllegalAccessException;
+        || e instanceof IllegalAccessException
+        || hasCauseOf(e, TaskCancelledException.class);
+  }
+
+  private static boolean hasCauseOf(Throwable e, Class<? extends Throwable> target) {
+    for (Throwable cause = e; cause != null; cause = cause.getCause()) {
+      if (target.isInstance(cause)) {
+        return true;
+      }
+    }
+    return false;
   }
 
   @Override
diff --git a/plugin/src/test/java/org/opensearch/sql/plugin/rest/RestPPLQueryActionTest.java b/plugin/src/test/java/org/opensearch/sql/plugin/rest/RestPPLQueryActionTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..136e7058ceb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/plugin/src/test/java/org/opensearch/sql/plugin/rest/RestPPLQueryActionTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright OpenSearch Contributors
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+ */
+
+package org.opensearch.sql.plugin.rest;
+
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertFalse;
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;
+
+import java.lang.reflect.Method;
+import java.sql.SQLException;
+import org.junit.Test;
+import org.opensearch.core.tasks.TaskCancelledException;
+
+public class RestPPLQueryActionTest {
+
+  @Test
+  public void testTaskCancelledExceptionIsClientError() throws Exception {
+    TaskCancelledException cancelled = new TaskCancelledException("The task is cancelled.");
+    SQLException sqlEx = new SQLException("exception while executing query", cancelled);
+    RuntimeException wrapped = new RuntimeException(sqlEx);
+
+    assertTrue(invokeIsClientError(wrapped));
+  }
+
+  @Test
+  public void testDirectTaskCancelledExceptionIsClientError() throws Exception {
+    TaskCancelledException cancelled = new TaskCancelledException("The task is cancelled.");
+    assertTrue(invokeIsClientError(cancelled));
+  }
+
+  @Test
+  public void testGenericRuntimeExceptionIsNotClientError() throws Exception {
+    RuntimeException e = new RuntimeException("something went wrong");
+    assertFalse(invokeIsClientError(e));
+  }
+
+  private static boolean invokeIsClientError(Exception e) throws Exception {
+    Method method = RestPPLQueryAction.class.getDeclaredMethod("isClientError", Exception.class);
+    method.setAccessible(true);
+    return (boolean) method.invoke(null, e);
+  }
+}