diff --git a/haproxy/datadog_checks/haproxy/haproxy.py b/haproxy/datadog_checks/haproxy/haproxy.py
index aac765f3dfa93..727e78085066a 100644
--- a/haproxy/datadog_checks/haproxy/haproxy.py
+++ b/haproxy/datadog_checks/haproxy/haproxy.py
@@ -107,7 +107,10 @@ def check(self, instance):
             info, data = self._fetch_socket_data(parsed_url)
             self._collect_version_from_socket(info)
         else:
-            self._collect_version_from_http(url)
+            try:
+                self._collect_version_from_http(url)
+            except Exception as e:
+                self.log.warning("Couldn't collect version information: %s", e)
             data = self._fetch_url_data(url)
 
         collect_aggregates_only = instance.get('collect_aggregates_only', True)
diff --git a/haproxy/tests/test_unit.py b/haproxy/tests/test_unit.py
index 42a54db2747ee..0e45dbf31b791 100644
--- a/haproxy/tests/test_unit.py
+++ b/haproxy/tests/test_unit.py
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
 import os
 from collections import defaultdict
 
+import mock
+
 from . import common
 
 BASE_CONFIG = {'url': 'http://localhost/admin?stats', 'collect_status_metrics': True, 'enable_service_check': True}
@@ -249,3 +251,19 @@ def test_regex_tags(aggregator, check, haproxy_mock):
         'backend:i-1',
     ]
     aggregator.assert_service_check('haproxy.backend_up', tags=tags)
+
+
+def test_version_failure(aggregator, check, datadog_agent):
+    config = copy.deepcopy(BASE_CONFIG)
+    haproxy_check = check(config)
+    filepath = os.path.join(common.HERE, 'fixtures', 'mock_data')
+    with open(filepath, 'rb') as f:
+        data = f.read()
+    with mock.patch('requests.get') as m:
+        m.side_effect = [RuntimeError("Ooops"), mock.Mock(content=data)]
+        haproxy_check.check(config)
+
+    # Version failed, but we should have some metrics
+    aggregator.assert_metric('haproxy.count_per_status', value=1, tags=['status:open', 'service:a'])
+    # But no metadata
+    datadog_agent.assert_metadata_count(0)