diff --git a/src/Monolog/Handler/LogglyHandler.php b/src/Monolog/Handler/LogglyHandler.php
index efd94d30..b83eb471 100644
--- a/src/Monolog/Handler/LogglyHandler.php
+++ b/src/Monolog/Handler/LogglyHandler.php
@@ -87,7 +87,10 @@ class LogglyHandler extends AbstractProcessingHandler
         curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
         curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
 
-        curl_exec($ch);
+        if (curl_exec($ch) === false) {
+            throw new \RuntimeException(sprintf('Curl error (code %s): %s', curl_errno($ch), curl_error($ch)));
+        }
+
         curl_close($ch);
     }