diff --git a/python_apps/airtime_analyzer/airtime_analyzer/message_listener.py b/python_apps/airtime_analyzer/airtime_analyzer/message_listener.py
index 97613e81f..9b890321c 100644
--- a/python_apps/airtime_analyzer/airtime_analyzer/message_listener.py
+++ b/python_apps/airtime_analyzer/airtime_analyzer/message_listener.py
@@ -120,8 +120,13 @@ class MessageListener:
 
     def disconnect_from_messaging_server(self):
         '''Stop consuming RabbitMQ messages and disconnect'''
-        self._channel.stop_consuming()
-        self._connection.close()
+        # If you try to close a connection that's already closed, you're going to have a bad time.
+        # We're breaking EAFP because this can be called multiple times depending on exception
+        # handling flow here.
+        if not self._channel.is_closed and not self._channel.is_closing:
+            self._channel.stop_consuming()
+        if not self._connection.is_closed and not self._connection.is_closing:
+            self._connection.close()
    
     def graceful_shutdown(self, signum, frame):
         '''Disconnect and break out of the message listening loop'''
diff --git a/python_apps/airtime_analyzer/airtime_analyzer/status_reporter.py b/python_apps/airtime_analyzer/airtime_analyzer/status_reporter.py
index ade3c5bdb..ebf9a12d5 100644
--- a/python_apps/airtime_analyzer/airtime_analyzer/status_reporter.py
+++ b/python_apps/airtime_analyzer/airtime_analyzer/status_reporter.py
@@ -38,9 +38,9 @@ def process_http_requests(ipc_queue, http_retry_queue_path):
     # retried later:
     retry_queue = collections.deque()
     shutdown = False
-    
-    # Unpickle retry_queue from disk so that we won't have lost any uploads 
-    # if airtime_analyzer is shut down while the web server is down or unreachable, 
+
+    # Unpickle retry_queue from disk so that we won't have lost any uploads
+    # if airtime_analyzer is shut down while the web server is down or unreachable,
     # and there were failed HTTP requests pending, waiting to be retried.
     try:
         with open(http_retry_queue_path, 'rb') as pickle_file:
@@ -57,33 +57,42 @@ def process_http_requests(ipc_queue, http_retry_queue_path):
         logging.error("Failed to unpickle %s. Continuing..." % http_retry_queue_path)
         pass
 
-    
-    while not shutdown:
+    while True:
         try:
-            request = ipc_queue.get(block=True, timeout=5)
-            if isinstance(request, str) and request == "shutdown": # Bit of a cheat
-                shutdown = True
-                break
-            if not isinstance(request, PicklableHttpRequest):
-                raise TypeError("request must be a PicklableHttpRequest. Was of type " + type(request).__name__)
-        except Queue.Empty:
-            request = None
-        
-        # If there's no new HTTP request we need to execute, let's check our "retry
-        # queue" and see if there's any failed HTTP requests we can retry:
-        if request:
-            send_http_request(request, retry_queue)
-        else:
-            # Using a for loop instead of while so we only iterate over all the requests once!
-            for i in range(len(retry_queue)):
-                request = retry_queue.popleft()
-                send_http_request(request, retry_queue)
+            while not shutdown:
+                try:
+                    request = ipc_queue.get(block=True, timeout=5)
+                    if isinstance(request, str) and request == "shutdown": # Bit of a cheat
+                        shutdown = True
+                        break
+                    if not isinstance(request, PicklableHttpRequest):
+                        raise TypeError("request must be a PicklableHttpRequest. Was of type " + type(request).__name__)
+                except Queue.Empty:
+                    request = None
+
+                # If there's no new HTTP request we need to execute, let's check our "retry
+                # queue" and see if there's any failed HTTP requests we can retry:
+                if request:
+                    send_http_request(request, retry_queue)
+                else:
+                    # Using a for loop instead of while so we only iterate over all the requests once!
+                    for i in range(len(retry_queue)):
+                        request = retry_queue.popleft()
+                        send_http_request(request, retry_queue)
+
+            logging.info("Shutting down status_reporter")
+            # Pickle retry_queue to disk so that we don't lose uploads if we're shut down while
+            # while the web server is down or unreachable.
+            with open(http_retry_queue_path, 'wb') as pickle_file:
+                pickle.dump(retry_queue, pickle_file)
+        except Exception as e: # Terrible top-level exception handler to prevent the thread from dying, just in case.
+            if shutdown:
+                return
+            logging.exception("Unhandled exception in StatusReporter")
+            logging.exception(e)
+            logging.info("Restarting StatusReporter thread")
+            time.sleep(2) # Throttle it
 
-    logging.info("Shutting down status_reporter")
-    # Pickle retry_queue to disk so that we don't lose uploads if we're shut down while
-    # while the web server is down or unreachable.
-    with open(http_retry_queue_path, 'wb') as pickle_file:
-        pickle.dump(retry_queue, pickle_file)
 
 def send_http_request(picklable_request, retry_queue):
     if not isinstance(picklable_request, PicklableHttpRequest):