diff --git a/web/getting-started.mixed/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/51Degrees-Mixed.xml b/web/getting-started.mixed/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/51Degrees-Mixed.xml
index 9067c4a..e750d6c 100644
--- a/web/getting-started.mixed/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/51Degrees-Mixed.xml
+++ b/web/getting-started.mixed/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/51Degrees-Mixed.xml
@@ -54,4 +54,11 @@
             </BuildParameters>
         </Element>
     </Elements>
+    <!-- Suppress and log exceptions thrown from within (Web)Pipeline.process().
+         Set to `true` here so a detection failure degrades gracefully instead of
+         returning a 500 for every request. Use `false` while developing to surface mistakes loudly.
+         Note: the element name is singular - it matches Java's setSuppressProcessException. -->
+    <BuildParameters>
+        <SuppressProcessException>true</SuppressProcessException>
+    </BuildParameters>
 </PipelineOptions>
diff --git a/web/getting-started.onprem/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/51Degrees-OnPrem.xml b/web/getting-started.onprem/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/51Degrees-OnPrem.xml
index 6bce023..a0b00d1 100644
--- a/web/getting-started.onprem/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/51Degrees-OnPrem.xml
+++ b/web/getting-started.onprem/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/51Degrees-OnPrem.xml
@@ -35,4 +35,11 @@
             <BuilderName>IPIntelligenceOnPremiseEngine</BuilderName>
         </Element>
     </Elements>
+    <!-- Suppress and log exceptions thrown from within (Web)Pipeline.process().
+         Set to `true` here so an IP-intelligence failure degrades gracefully instead of
+         returning a 500 for every request. Use `false` while developing to surface mistakes loudly.
+         Note: the element name is singular - it matches Java's setSuppressProcessException. -->
+    <BuildParameters>
+        <SuppressProcessException>true</SuppressProcessException>
+    </BuildParameters>
 </PipelineOptions>
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