diff --git a/lib/middleware/request_tracker.rb b/lib/middleware/request_tracker.rb
index fda5fc46f28..4decb0983c8 100644
--- a/lib/middleware/request_tracker.rb
+++ b/lib/middleware/request_tracker.rb
@@ -125,13 +125,26 @@ class Middleware::RequestTracker
       is_api: is_api,
       is_user_api: is_user_api,
       is_background: is_message_bus || is_topic_timings,
-      background_type: is_message_bus ? "message-bus" : "topic-timings",
       is_mobile: helper.is_mobile?,
       track_view: track_view,
       timing: timing,
       queue_seconds: env['REQUEST_QUEUE_SECONDS']
     }
 
+    if h[:is_background]
+      h[:background_type] = if is_message_bus
+        if request.query_string.include?("dlp=t")
+          "message-bus-dlp"
+        elsif env["HTTP_DONT_CHUNK"]
+          "message-bus-dontchunk"
+        else
+          "message-bus"
+        end
+      else
+        "topic-timings"
+      end
+    end
+
     if h[:is_crawler]
       user_agent = env['HTTP_USER_AGENT']
       if user_agent && (user_agent.encoding != Encoding::UTF_8)
diff --git a/spec/lib/middleware/request_tracker_spec.rb b/spec/lib/middleware/request_tracker_spec.rb
index b3953a53913..d00fc3f7592 100644
--- a/spec/lib/middleware/request_tracker_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/lib/middleware/request_tracker_spec.rb
@@ -2,10 +2,10 @@
 
 RSpec.describe Middleware::RequestTracker do
   def env(opts = {})
-    create_request_env.merge(
+    path = opts.delete(:path) || "/path?bla=1"
+    create_request_env(path: path).merge(
       "HTTP_HOST" => "http://test.com",
       "HTTP_USER_AGENT" => "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/41.0.2228.0 Safari/537.36",
-      "REQUEST_URI" => "/path?bla=1",
       "REQUEST_METHOD" => "GET",
       "HTTP_ACCEPT" => "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,image/apng,*/*;q=0.8",
       "rack.input" => StringIO.new
@@ -666,5 +666,21 @@ RSpec.describe Middleware::RequestTracker do
 
       expect(headers["X-Runtime"].to_f).to be > 0
     end
+
+    it "can correctly log messagebus request types" do
+      tracker = Middleware::RequestTracker.new(app([200, {}, []]))
+
+      tracker.call(env(path: "/message-bus/abcde/poll"))
+      expect(@data[:is_background]).to eq(true)
+      expect(@data[:background_type]).to eq("message-bus")
+
+      tracker.call(env(path: "/message-bus/abcde/poll?dlp=t"))
+      expect(@data[:is_background]).to eq(true)
+      expect(@data[:background_type]).to eq("message-bus-dlp")
+
+      tracker.call(env("HTTP_DONT_CHUNK" => "True", path: "/message-bus/abcde/poll"))
+      expect(@data[:is_background]).to eq(true)
+      expect(@data[:background_type]).to eq("message-bus-dontchunk")
+    end
   end
 end