diff --git a/composer.json b/composer.json
index 147da1ecd..1597bba01 100755
--- a/composer.json
+++ b/composer.json
@@ -71,6 +71,7 @@
     },
     "suggest": {
         "ext-redis": "Needed to support Redis Cache Adapter",
+        "ext-swoole": "Needed to scope lifecycle hook silencing per coroutine and to detect lost connections",
         "ext-pdo": "Needed to support MariaDB, MySQL or SQLite Database Adapter",
         "mongodb/mongodb": "Needed to support MongoDB Database Adapter"
     },
diff --git a/src/Database/Connection.php b/src/Database/Connection.php
index 024aecc26..3d58f2c3f 100644
--- a/src/Database/Connection.php
+++ b/src/Database/Connection.php
@@ -15,6 +15,30 @@ class Connection
      */
     protected static array $errors = [
         'Max connect timeout reached',
+        'server has gone away',
+        'no connection to the server',
+        'Lost connection',
+        'is dead or not enabled',
+        'Error while sending',
+        'decryption failed or bad record mac',
+        'server closed the connection unexpectedly',
+        'SSL connection has been closed unexpectedly',
+        'Error writing data to the connection',
+        'Resource deadlock avoided',
+        'Transaction() on null',
+        'child connection forced to terminate due to client_idle_limit',
+        'query_wait_timeout',
+        'reset by peer',
+        'Physical connection is not usable',
+        'TCP Provider: Error code 0x68',
+        'ORA-03114',
+        'Packets out of order. Expected',
+        'Adaptive Server connection failed',
+        'Communication link failure',
+        'connection is no longer usable',
+        'Login timeout expired',
+        'running with the --read-only option so it cannot execute this statement',
+        'SQLSTATE[HY000] [2002] Connection refused',
     ];
 
     /**
@@ -25,7 +49,7 @@ class Connection
      */
     public static function hasError(Throwable $e): bool
     {
-        if (DetectsLostConnections::causedByLostConnection($e)) {
+        if (\class_exists(DetectsLostConnections::class) && DetectsLostConnections::causedByLostConnection($e)) {
             return true;
         }
 
diff --git a/src/Database/Database.php b/src/Database/Database.php
index b3c4aec3b..99e8e1a1a 100644
--- a/src/Database/Database.php
+++ b/src/Database/Database.php
@@ -1460,6 +1460,10 @@ protected function areEventsSilenced(): bool
 
     private function getEventContext(): int
     {
+        if (! \extension_loaded('swoole')) {
+            return -1;
+        }
+
         $context = Coroutine::getCid();
 
         return \is_int($context) ? $context : -1;
diff --git a/tests/unit/Support/swoole-absent.php b/tests/unit/Support/swoole-absent.php
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..05814cc14
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/unit/Support/swoole-absent.php
@@ -0,0 +1,65 @@
+<?php
+
+/**
+ * Exercises the lifecycle-hook paths that reach Database::getEventContext(), plus
+ * Connection::hasError(), in a process where ext-swoole is unavailable.
+ *
+ * Run by SwooleAbsentTest through a subprocess started with -n, because an
+ * extension cannot be unloaded from inside a running interpreter.
+ */
+
+require dirname(__DIR__, 3) . '/vendor/autoload.php';
+
+use Utopia\Cache\Adapter\None;
+use Utopia\Cache\Cache;
+use Utopia\Database\Adapter\Memory;
+use Utopia\Database\Collection;
+use Utopia\Database\Connection;
+use Utopia\Database\Database;
+use Utopia\Database\Document;
+use Utopia\Database\Helpers\Permission;
+use Utopia\Database\Helpers\Role;
+use Utopia\Database\Query;
+
+echo 'swoole=' . (extension_loaded('swoole') ? '1' : '0') . PHP_EOL;
+
+$database = new Database(new Memory(), new Cache(new None()));
+$database->setDatabase('utopiaTests')->setNamespace('swoole_absent');
+$database->create();
+$database->getAuthorization()->addRole(Role::any()->toString());
+
+echo 'create=ok' . PHP_EOL;
+
+echo 'silent=' . $database->silent(fn () => 'ok') . PHP_EOL;
+
+$database->createCollection(new Collection(
+    id: 'logs',
+    permissions: [
+        Permission::read(Role::any()),
+        Permission::create(Role::any()),
+        Permission::delete(Role::any()),
+    ],
+    documentSecurity: false,
+));
+
+foreach (['a', 'b', 'c'] as $id) {
+    $database->createDocument('logs', new Document(['$id' => $id]));
+}
+
+$deleted = $database->deleteDocuments('logs', [Query::limit(10)]);
+
+echo 'deleted=' . $deleted . PHP_EOL;
+echo 'remaining=' . \count($database->find('logs', [Query::limit(10)])) . PHP_EOL;
+$lost = 0;
+foreach ([
+    'SQLSTATE[HY000]: General error: 2006 MySQL server has gone away',
+    'Lost connection to MySQL server during query',
+    'SQLSTATE[08006] server closed the connection unexpectedly',
+    'Max connect timeout reached',
+    'Communication link failure',
+] as $message) {
+    $lost += Connection::hasError(new RuntimeException($message)) ? 1 : 0;
+}
+
+echo 'lostDetected=' . $lost . PHP_EOL;
+echo 'unrelatedDetected=' . (Connection::hasError(new RuntimeException('syntax error near FROM')) ? '1' : '0') . PHP_EOL;
diff --git a/tests/unit/SwooleAbsentTest.php b/tests/unit/SwooleAbsentTest.php
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..70b34ca47
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/unit/SwooleAbsentTest.php
@@ -0,0 +1,72 @@
+<?php
+
+namespace Tests\Unit;
+
+use PHPUnit\Framework\TestCase;
+
+class SwooleAbsentTest extends TestCase
+{
+    /**
+     * @param array<string> $flags
+     * @return array{status: int, output: string}
+     */
+    private function runFixture(array $flags): array
+    {
+        $command = \escapeshellarg(PHP_BINARY);
+
+        foreach ($flags as $flag) {
+            $command .= ' ' . $flag;
+        }
+
+        $command .= ' ' . \escapeshellarg(__DIR__ . '/Support/swoole-absent.php') . ' 2>&1';
+
+        \exec($command, $lines, $status);
+
+        return ['status' => $status, 'output' => \implode(PHP_EOL, $lines)];
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * ext-swoole is optional: it is absent from composer.json's require block, so a
+     * consumer may run the library on a PHP that does not have it. An extension cannot
+     * be unloaded from a running interpreter, so this drives a subprocess started with
+     * -n, which skips php.ini and every conf.d file and therefore loads no shared
+     * extension. Swoole ships as a shared extension in the test image and in every
+     * environment that installs it through pecl.
+     */
+    public function testDatabaseOperatesWithoutSwoole(): void
+    {
+        ['status' => $status, 'output' => $output] = $this->runFixture(['-n']);
+
+        if (\str_contains($output, 'swoole=1')) {
+            $this->markTestSkipped('swoole is statically compiled into ' . PHP_BINARY . ', so its absence cannot be exercised');
+        }
+
+        $this->assertSame(0, $status, "Fixture exited {$status} without swoole:" . PHP_EOL . $output);
+
+        $this->assertStringContainsString('create=ok', $output, $output);
+        $this->assertStringContainsString('silent=ok', $output, $output);
+        $this->assertStringContainsString('deleted=3', $output, $output);
+        $this->assertStringContainsString('remaining=0', $output, $output);
+        $this->assertStringContainsString('lostDetected=5', $output, $output);
+        $this->assertStringContainsString('unrelatedDetected=0', $output, $output);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Swoole\Database\DetectsLostConnections comes from Swoole's PHP-land library, which
+     * swoole.enable_library=Off switches off while leaving the extension loaded. Lost
+     * connections must still be recognised, so detection cannot rest on that class.
+     */
+    public function testLostConnectionsAreDetectedWithoutSwooleLibrary(): void
+    {
+        if (! \extension_loaded('swoole')) {
+            $this->markTestSkipped('swoole is not loaded, so its library cannot be switched off');
+        }
+
+        ['status' => $status, 'output' => $output] = $this->runFixture(['-d swoole.enable_library=Off']);
+
+        $this->assertSame(0, $status, "Fixture exited {$status} with the swoole library disabled:" . PHP_EOL . $output);
+
+        $this->assertStringContainsString('lostDetected=5', $output, $output);
+        $this->assertStringContainsString('unrelatedDetected=0', $output, $output);
+    }
+}