diff --git a/crates/driver/src/infra/solver/dto/notification.rs b/crates/driver/src/infra/solver/dto/notification.rs
index bb94162650..2d2cc75090 100644
--- a/crates/driver/src/infra/solver/dto/notification.rs
+++ b/crates/driver/src/infra/solver/dto/notification.rs
@@ -89,6 +89,7 @@ impl Notification {
 pub struct Notification {
     auction_id: Option<String>,
     solution_id: Option<u64>,
+    #[serde(flatten)]
     kind: Kind,
 }
 
diff --git a/crates/driver/src/infra/solver/mod.rs b/crates/driver/src/infra/solver/mod.rs
index 30db425022..ee43928c99 100644
--- a/crates/driver/src/infra/solver/mod.rs
+++ b/crates/driver/src/infra/solver/mod.rs
@@ -194,7 +194,9 @@ impl Solver {
             req = req.header("X-REQUEST-ID", id);
         }
         let future = async move {
-            let _ = util::http::send(SOLVER_RESPONSE_MAX_BYTES, req).await;
+            if let Err(error) = util::http::send(SOLVER_RESPONSE_MAX_BYTES, req).await {
+                tracing::warn!(?error, "failed to notify solver");
+            }
         };
         tokio::task::spawn(future.in_current_span());
     }
diff --git a/crates/driver/src/util/http.rs b/crates/driver/src/util/http.rs
index d90f289f5b..69e070e485 100644
--- a/crates/driver/src/util/http.rs
+++ b/crates/driver/src/util/http.rs
@@ -9,7 +9,15 @@ pub async fn send(limit_bytes: usize, req: reqwest::RequestBuilder) -> Result<St
         }
         data.extend_from_slice(&chunk);
     }
-    String::from_utf8(data).map_err(Into::into)
+    let body = String::from_utf8(data).map_err(Error::NotUtf8)?;
+    if res.status().is_success() {
+        Ok(body)
+    } else {
+        Err(Error::NotOk {
+            code: res.status().as_u16(),
+            body: body.clone(),
+        })
+    }
 }
 
 #[derive(Debug, Error)]
@@ -20,4 +28,6 @@ pub enum Error {
     ResponseTooLarge { limit_bytes: usize },
     #[error("the response could not be parsed as UTF-8: {0:?}")]
     NotUtf8(#[from] std::string::FromUtf8Error),
+    #[error("the response status was not 2xx but {code:?}, body: {body:?}")]
+    NotOk { code: u16, body: String },
 }
diff --git a/crates/solvers/Cargo.toml b/crates/solvers/Cargo.toml
index 1377894518..541d1cd2d4 100644
--- a/crates/solvers/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/solvers/Cargo.toml
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ thiserror = "1"
 tokio = { version = "1", features = ["macros", "rt-multi-thread", "signal", "time"] }
 toml = "0.7"
 tower = "0.4"
-tower-http = { version = "0.4", features = ["trace"] }
+tower-http = { version = "0.4", features = ["limit", "trace"] }
 web3 = "0.19"
 
 # TODO Once solvers are ported and E2E tests set up, slowly migrate code and
diff --git a/crates/solvers/src/api/routes/notify/dto/notification.rs b/crates/solvers/src/api/routes/notify/dto/notification.rs
index 74eda863fb..c679af3da0 100644
--- a/crates/solvers/src/api/routes/notify/dto/notification.rs
+++ b/crates/solvers/src/api/routes/notify/dto/notification.rs
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ impl Notification {
 
 #[serde_as]
 #[derive(Debug, Deserialize)]
-#[serde(rename_all = "camelCase", deny_unknown_fields)]
+#[serde(rename_all = "camelCase")]
 pub struct Notification {
     #[serde_as(as = "Option<DisplayFromStr>")]
     auction_id: Option<i64>,