diff --git a/src/app/modules/core/core.errors.ts b/src/app/modules/core/core.errors.ts
index 995fe73015..6b6ee352a0 100644
--- a/src/app/modules/core/core.errors.ts
+++ b/src/app/modules/core/core.errors.ts
@@ -7,8 +7,9 @@ export class ApplicationError extends Error {
    * Meta object to be logged by the application logger, if any.
    */
   meta?: unknown
+  errorCode: number
 
-  constructor(message?: string, meta?: unknown) {
+  constructor(message?: string, meta?: unknown, errorCode?: number) {
     super()
 
     Error.captureStackTrace(this, this.constructor)
@@ -18,6 +19,20 @@ export class ApplicationError extends Error {
     this.message = message || 'Something went wrong. Please try again.'
 
     this.meta = meta
+    this.errorCode = errorCode || 1000
+  }
+
+  consume(consumer: (error: this) => void): ApplicationError {
+    consumer(this)
+    return this
+  }
+
+  toJson() {
+    return JSON.stringify(this)
+  }
+
+  toJsonPretty() {
+    return JSON.stringify(this, null, 2)
   }
 }
 
diff --git a/src/app/modules/form/form.errors.ts b/src/app/modules/form/form.errors.ts
index 5ef8cdc8cc..2bc8fec5a1 100644
--- a/src/app/modules/form/form.errors.ts
+++ b/src/app/modules/form/form.errors.ts
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ export class PrivateFormError extends ApplicationError {
     message = 'If you think this is a mistake, please contact the agency that gave you the form link.',
     formTitle: string,
   ) {
-    super(message)
+    super(message, 1001)
     this.formTitle = formTitle
   }
 }
diff --git a/src/app/modules/submission/email-submission/email-submission.controller.ts b/src/app/modules/submission/email-submission/email-submission.controller.ts
index 2cc6f73dde..403fa781f8 100644
--- a/src/app/modules/submission/email-submission/email-submission.controller.ts
+++ b/src/app/modules/submission/email-submission/email-submission.controller.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
+import tracer from 'dd-trace'
 import { ok, okAsync, ResultAsync } from 'neverthrow'
 
+import { statsdClient } from 'src/app/config/datadog-statsd-client'
+
 import {
   FormAuthType,
   SubmissionErrorDto,
@@ -44,6 +47,10 @@ import * as EmailSubmissionService from './email-submission.service'
 import { IPopulatedEmailFormWithResponsesAndHash } from './email-submission.types'
 import { mapRouteError, SubmissionEmailObj } from './email-submission.util'
 
+// export const errorStatsdClient = statsdClient.childClient({
+//   prefix: 'errorsV2.email-submission.',
+// })
+
 const logger = createLoggerWithLabel(module)
 
 const submitEmailModeForm: ControllerHandler<
@@ -440,6 +447,15 @@ const submitEmailModeForm: ControllerHandler<
         },
       )
       .mapErr((error) => {
+        if (error.errorCode != 100) {
+          // tejastodo
+          tracer.dogstatsd.increment(
+            'errorsV2.email-submission.submitEmailModeForm',
+            1,
+            undefined,
+          )
+          // errorStatsdClient.increment('submitEmailModeForm')
+        }
         const { errorMessage, statusCode } = mapRouteError(error)
         return res
           .status(statusCode)