diff --git a/catalogue/detail.pl b/catalogue/detail.pl
index b5801cca71..4efffed9b8 100755
--- a/catalogue/detail.pl
+++ b/catalogue/detail.pl
@@ -140,10 +140,16 @@ my $marcflavour  = C4::Context->preference("marcflavour");
       ( C4::Context->preference('UseControlNumber') and $record->field('001') )
       ? 'rcn:'. $record->field('001')->data . ' AND (bib-level:a OR bib-level:b)'
       : "Host-item:($cleaned_title)";
-    my ( $err, $result, $count ) = $searcher->simple_search_compat( $query, 0, 0 );
+    my ( $err, $result, $count );
+    eval {
+        ( $err, $result, $count ) =
+          $searcher->simple_search_compat( $query, 0, 0 );
 
-    warn "Warning from simple_search_compat: $err"
-        if $err;
+    };
+    if ($err || $@){
+        warn "Warning from simple_search_compat: $err.$@";
+        $template->param( analytics_error => 1 );
+    }
 
     my $variables = {
         show_analytics_link => $count > 0 ? 1 : 0
diff --git a/koha-tmpl/intranet-tmpl/prog/en/modules/catalogue/detail.tt b/koha-tmpl/intranet-tmpl/prog/en/modules/catalogue/detail.tt
index 8726c3b531..b8a159197b 100644
--- a/koha-tmpl/intranet-tmpl/prog/en/modules/catalogue/detail.tt
+++ b/koha-tmpl/intranet-tmpl/prog/en/modules/catalogue/detail.tt
@@ -99,6 +99,12 @@
             <span class="error"><br/> Error: [% decoding_error | html %]</span>
         </div>
     [% END %]
+    [% IF analytics_error %]
+        <div>
+           <span class="analytics_error">
+            There was an error searching for analytic records, please see the logs for details.</span>
+        </div>
+    [% END %]
     [% IF ( ocoins ) %]
         <!-- COinS / OpenURL -->
         <span class="Z3988" title="[% ocoins | html %]"></span>
diff --git a/opac/opac-detail.pl b/opac/opac-detail.pl
index eb9a6866b1..36c64d4f60 100755
--- a/opac/opac-detail.pl
+++ b/opac/opac-detail.pl
@@ -210,10 +210,15 @@ my $ean = GetNormalizedEAN( $record, $marcflavour );
       ( C4::Context->preference('UseControlNumber') and $record->field('001') )
       ? 'rcn:'. $record->field('001')->data . ' AND (bib-level:a OR bib-level:b)'
       : "Host-item:($cleaned_title)";
-    my ( $err, $result, $count ) = $searcher->simple_search_compat( $query, 0, 0 );
+    my ( $err, $result, $count );
+    eval {
+        ( $err, $result, $count ) =
+          $searcher->simple_search_compat( $query, 0, 0 );
 
-    warn "Warning from simple_search_compat: $err"
-       if $err;
+    };
+    if ($err || $@){
+        warn "Warning from simple_search_compat: $err.$@";
+    }
 
     my $variables = {
         anonymous_session   => ($borrowernumber) ? 0 : 1,