diff --git a/metrics_batcher.go b/metrics_batcher.go
index ccd6ee4..628471e 100644
--- a/metrics_batcher.go
+++ b/metrics_batcher.go
@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@ package stackdriver
 import (
 	"context"
 	"fmt"
+	"regexp"
+	"strconv"
 	"strings"
 	"sync"
 	"time"
@@ -131,16 +133,45 @@ func (mb *metricsBatcher) sendReqToChan() {
 	mb.reqsChan <- req
 }
 
+// regex to extract min-max ranges from error response strings in the format "timeSeries[(min-max,...)] ..." (max is optional)
+var timeSeriesErrRegex = regexp.MustCompile(`: timeSeries\[([0-9]+(?:-[0-9]+)?(?:,[0-9]+(?:-[0-9]+)?)*)\]`)
+
 // sendReq sends create time series requests to Stackdriver,
 // and returns the count of dropped time series and error.
 func sendReq(ctx context.Context, c *monitoring.MetricClient, req *monitoringpb.CreateTimeSeriesRequest) (int, error) {
-	if c != nil { // c==nil only happens in unit tests where we don't make real calls to Stackdriver server
-		err := createTimeSeries(ctx, c, req)
-		if err != nil {
-			return len(req.TimeSeries), err
+	// c == nil only happens in unit tests where we don't make real calls to Stackdriver server
+	if c == nil {
+		return 0, nil
+	}
+
+	err := createTimeSeries(ctx, c, req)
+	if err == nil {
+		return 0, nil
+	}
+
+	droppedTimeSeriesRangeMatches := timeSeriesErrRegex.FindAllStringSubmatch(err.Error(), -1)
+	if !strings.HasPrefix(err.Error(), "One or more TimeSeries could not be written:") || len(droppedTimeSeriesRangeMatches) == 0 {
+		return len(req.TimeSeries), err
+	}
+
+	dropped := 0
+	for _, submatches := range droppedTimeSeriesRangeMatches {
+		for i := 1; i < len(submatches); i++ {
+			for _, rng := range strings.Split(submatches[i], ",") {
+				rngSlice := strings.Split(rng, "-")
+
+				// strconv errors not possible due to regex above
+				min, _ := strconv.Atoi(rngSlice[0])
+				max := min
+				if len(rngSlice) > 1 {
+					max, _ = strconv.Atoi(rngSlice[1])
+				}
+
+				dropped += max - min + 1
+			}
 		}
 	}
-	return 0, nil
+	return dropped, err
 }
 
 type worker struct {
diff --git a/metrics_batcher_test.go b/metrics_batcher_test.go
index b7cc4cf..e8fdc20 100644
--- a/metrics_batcher_test.go
+++ b/metrics_batcher_test.go
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ package stackdriver
 
 import (
 	"context"
+	"errors"
 	"fmt"
 	"testing"
 
@@ -109,3 +110,73 @@ func makeTs(i int) *monitoringpb.TimeSeries {
 		},
 	}
 }
+
+func TestSendReqAndParseDropped(t *testing.T) {
+	type testCase struct {
+		name                 string
+		timeseriesCount      int
+		createTimeSeriesFunc func(ctx context.Context, c *monitoring.MetricClient, ts *monitoringpb.CreateTimeSeriesRequest) error
+		expectedErr          bool
+		expectedDropped      int
+	}
+
+	testCases := []testCase{
+		{
+			name:            "No error",
+			timeseriesCount: 75,
+			createTimeSeriesFunc: func(ctx context.Context, c *monitoring.MetricClient, ts *monitoringpb.CreateTimeSeriesRequest) error {
+				return nil
+			},
+			expectedErr:     false,
+			expectedDropped: 0,
+		},
+		{
+			name:            "Partial error",
+			timeseriesCount: 75,
+			createTimeSeriesFunc: func(ctx context.Context, c *monitoring.MetricClient, ts *monitoringpb.CreateTimeSeriesRequest) error {
+				return errors.New("One or more TimeSeries could not be written: Internal error encountered. Please retry after a few seconds. If internal errors persist, contact support at https://cloud.google.com/support/docs.: timeSeries[0-16,25-44,46-74]; Unknown metric: agent.googleapis.com/system.swap.page_faults: timeSeries[45]")
+			},
+			expectedErr:     true,
+			expectedDropped: 67,
+		},
+		{
+			name:            "Incorrectly formatted error",
+			timeseriesCount: 75,
+			createTimeSeriesFunc: func(ctx context.Context, c *monitoring.MetricClient, ts *monitoringpb.CreateTimeSeriesRequest) error {
+				return errors.New("One or more TimeSeries could not be written: Internal error encountered. Please retry after a few seconds. If internal errors persist, contact support at https://cloud.google.com/support/docs.: timeSeries[0-16,25-44,,46-74]; Unknown metric: agent.googleapis.com/system.swap.page_faults: timeSeries[45x]")
+			},
+			expectedErr:     true,
+			expectedDropped: 75,
+		},
+		{
+			name:            "Unexpected error format",
+			timeseriesCount: 75,
+			createTimeSeriesFunc: func(ctx context.Context, c *monitoring.MetricClient, ts *monitoringpb.CreateTimeSeriesRequest) error {
+				return errors.New("err1")
+			},
+			expectedErr:     true,
+			expectedDropped: 75,
+		},
+	}
+
+	for _, test := range testCases {
+		t.Run(test.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			persistedCreateTimeSeries := createTimeSeries
+			createTimeSeries = test.createTimeSeriesFunc
+
+			mc, _ := monitoring.NewMetricClient(context.Background())
+			d, err := sendReq(context.Background(), mc, &monitoringpb.CreateTimeSeriesRequest{TimeSeries: make([]*monitoringpb.TimeSeries, test.timeseriesCount)})
+			if !test.expectedErr && err != nil {
+				t.Fatal("Expected no err")
+			}
+			if test.expectedErr && err == nil {
+				t.Fatal("Expected noerr")
+			}
+			if d != test.expectedDropped {
+				t.Fatalf("Want %v dropped, got %v", test.expectedDropped, d)
+			}
+
+			createTimeSeries = persistedCreateTimeSeries
+		})
+	}
+}