diff --git a/app/canary/dao.rb b/app/canary/dao.rb
index 07b9087..ebf86b1 100644
--- a/app/canary/dao.rb
+++ b/app/canary/dao.rb
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 require 'concurrent/hash'
 require 'mini_cache'
 require 'net/http'
+require 'openssl'
 
 module CodeValet
   module Canary
@@ -15,6 +16,7 @@ module CodeValet
         Net::HTTPBadResponse,
         Net::HTTPHeaderSyntaxError,
         Net::ProtocolError,
+        OpenSSL::SSL::SSLError,
       ].freeze
 
       # Access the caching object
diff --git a/spec/dao/sentry_spec.rb b/spec/dao/sentry_spec.rb
index 038367b..aa3ab2e 100644
--- a/spec/dao/sentry_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/dao/sentry_spec.rb
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 require 'spec_helper'
 
 require 'json'
+require 'openssl'
 
 require 'canary/dao/sentry'
 
@@ -45,6 +46,15 @@ describe CodeValet::Canary::DAO::Sentry do
         expect(subject.projects).to eql(projects)
       end
     end
+
+    # https://github.com/codevalet/canary/issues/2
+    it 'should gracefully handle OpenSSL errors' do
+      expect(SentryApi).to receive(:projects).and_raise(OpenSSL::SSL::SSLError)
+      expect(Raven).not_to receive(:capture_exception)
+
+      expect(subject.projects).to be_empty
+      expect(subject).to be_errored
+    end
   end
 
   it { should respond_to :issues_for }