diff --git a/src/JasperFx.Events/Daemon/GroupedProjectionExecution.cs b/src/JasperFx.Events/Daemon/GroupedProjectionExecution.cs
index c406a05..dfb8658 100644
--- a/src/JasperFx.Events/Daemon/GroupedProjectionExecution.cs
+++ b/src/JasperFx.Events/Daemon/GroupedProjectionExecution.cs
@@ -128,6 +128,11 @@ private async Task<EventRange> groupEventRangeAsync(EventRange range, Cancellati
 
             return range;
         }
+        catch when (_cancellation.IsCancellationRequested)
+        {
+            // Shard is being torn down — don't promote the cancellation to a critical failure.
+            return null!;
+        }
         catch (Exception e)
         {
             activity?.AddException(e);
@@ -183,6 +188,17 @@ private async Task processRangeAsync(EventRange range, CancellationToken _)
 
             range.Agent.Metrics.UpdateProcessed(range.Size);
         }
+        catch (OperationCanceledException) when (_cancellation.IsCancellationRequested)
+        {
+            // Daemon-internal cancellation (StopAllAsync / HardStopAsync / DisposeAsync fired the
+            // shard's CTS). Don't surface as a critical shard failure — matches the guard already
+            // used in applyBatchOperationsToDatabaseAsync and SubscriptionExecutionBase.executeRange.
+        }
+        catch when (_cancellation.IsCancellationRequested)
+        {
+            // Wrapped/aggregated cancellation (e.g. Npgsql 57014 surfaced through a non-OCE) that
+            // is really a side effect of the shard being torn down. Same rationale as above.
+        }
         catch (Exception e)
         {
             activity?.AddException(e);
diff --git a/src/JasperFx.Events/Daemon/JasperFxAsyncDaemon.cs b/src/JasperFx.Events/Daemon/JasperFxAsyncDaemon.cs
index ddaf6a3..441894e 100644
--- a/src/JasperFx.Events/Daemon/JasperFxAsyncDaemon.cs
+++ b/src/JasperFx.Events/Daemon/JasperFxAsyncDaemon.cs
@@ -710,7 +710,11 @@ public async Task CatchUpAsync(CancellationToken cancellation)
             var agent = buildAgentForShard(asyncShard);
             
             await agent.CatchUpAsync(HighWaterMark(), state, cancellation);
-            var exceptions = recorder.States.Select(x => x.Exception).Where(x => x != null).ToArray();
+            var exceptions = recorder.States
+                .Select(x => x.Exception)
+                .Where(x => x != null)
+                .Where(x => cancellation.IsCancellationRequested || !isCancellationNoise(x!))
+                .ToArray();
             if (exceptions.Length != 0)
             {
                 throw new AggregateException(exceptions!);
@@ -724,6 +728,18 @@ public async Task CatchUpAsync(TimeSpan timeout, CancellationToken cancellation)
         cts.CancelAfter(timeout);
         await CatchUpAsync(cts.Token);
     }
+
+    private static bool isCancellationNoise(Exception exception)
+    {
+        if (exception is OperationCanceledException) return true;
+        if (exception is AggregateException aggregate)
+        {
+            return aggregate.InnerExceptions.Count > 0
+                   && aggregate.InnerExceptions.All(isCancellationNoise);
+        }
+
+        return false;
+    }
 }
 
 internal class Recorder : IObserver<ShardState>