diff --git a/frontend/snapshots.yml b/frontend/snapshots.yml
index 843b5115bccb..d0ca9c1ec9ff 100644
--- a/frontend/snapshots.yml
+++ b/frontend/snapshots.yml
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+    errortracking-exceptioncard--exception-card-header-widths--dark:
+        hash: v1.k794b7964.a8d4c7c699963c997bbc3683c773912cc14309d04ec5fb79f9ac35e02863f4f6.Zc4-3oyCvK2ZpMaPlKk5YuQ6juFJmcU9-WmDHfxRvYo
+    errortracking-exceptioncard--exception-card-header-widths--light:
+        hash: v1.k794b7964.c9d1a5ef4bb29010deec86a6a4b10760ba3e245b819deff4a6b11ce80b8b35e2.NBK6tX4m0khMKb-MRZBfFk87mMQ27hPQ22ZLlzWJtHQ
+    errortracking-exceptioncard--exception-card-header-widths-with-action--dark:
+        hash: v1.k794b7964.bcb5832c034ac672244a43ace893fffbb64953dd8f474929937f52ec27f19b14.mAkQ8uO7PW_ilHWHY_oFF4c0LvQcggDt-iLVdnnJRIs
+    errortracking-exceptioncard--exception-card-header-widths-with-action--light:
+        hash: v1.k794b7964.25974971fa0cf2dbe86348ce1144e8b8a0ff7c1a7e172ecc941e6b345144841f.dT_74I4ZqX-DFX_ayPWR8lutK4EVque9Zyjbci6Hj6I
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     errortracking-exceptioncard--exception-card-no-in-app--light:
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     errortracking-exceptioncard--exception-card-session-timeline-with-malformed-steps--light:
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diff --git a/products/error_tracking/frontend/components/ExceptionCard/ExceptionCard.stories.tsx b/products/error_tracking/frontend/components/ExceptionCard/ExceptionCard.stories.tsx
index cd4baa1f520f..ebbe57be93ac 100644
--- a/products/error_tracking/frontend/components/ExceptionCard/ExceptionCard.stories.tsx
+++ b/products/error_tracking/frontend/components/ExceptionCard/ExceptionCard.stories.tsx
@@ -5,8 +5,10 @@ import { useEffect } from 'react'
 import { LemonCard } from '@posthog/lemon-ui'
 
 import { ErrorEventType } from 'lib/components/Errors/types'
+import { FEATURE_FLAGS } from 'lib/constants'
 
 import { mswDecorator } from '~/mocks/browser'
+import type { Mocks } from '~/mocks/utils'
 import { NodeKind } from '~/queries/schema/schema-general'
 
 import { TEST_EVENTS } from '../../__mocks__/events'
@@ -66,8 +68,10 @@ ExceptionCardBase.parameters = sessionTimelineParameters(asErrorEventType(TEST_E
 export function ExceptionCardWithFooter(): JSX.Element {
     const event = asErrorEventType(TEST_EVENTS['javascript_resolved'])
 
+    // Definite width, like the other card stories: `w-full` resolves against a shrink-to-fit storybook
+    // wrapper, so the card would size to its own content rather than to the story.
     return (
-        <div className="h-[700px] w-full max-w-5xl">
+        <div className="h-[700px] w-[1000px]">
             <ExceptionCard
                 issueId="issue-id"
                 issueName="Test Issue"
@@ -549,8 +553,8 @@ function buildSessionTimelineEvent(
     }
 }
 
-function OpenTimelineTab({ children }: { children: JSX.Element }): JSX.Element {
-    const { setCurrentTab } = useActions(exceptionCardLogic({ issueId: 'issue-id', loading: false }))
+function OpenTimelineTab({ children, issueId = 'issue-id' }: { children: JSX.Element; issueId?: string }): JSX.Element {
+    const { setCurrentTab } = useActions(exceptionCardLogic({ issueId, loading: false }))
 
     useEffect(() => {
         setCurrentTab('timeline')
@@ -588,3 +592,100 @@ export function ExceptionCardAllEvents(): JSX.Element {
         </ExceptionCardWrapperAllEvents>
     )
 }
+
+//////////////////// Header layout
+
+/*
+ * The header fits a label, the tab bar and an action into one 40px row. Each width pins a different
+ * branch of the container query: which parts are drawn, and whether the tab bar centres or scrolls.
+ */
+const HEADER_WIDTHS: { width: number; caption: string }[] = [
+    { width: 300, caption: '300px — tightest pane: icon only, tab bar scrolls' },
+    { width: 420, caption: '420px — icon only, tab bar takes the slack' },
+    { width: 560, caption: '560px — still under @xl: icon only' },
+    { width: 576, caption: '576px — @xl boundary: label is back, tab bar re-centres' },
+    { width: 900, caption: '900px — roomy: symmetric gutters, tab bar dead centre' },
+]
+
+function HeaderWidthMatrix({
+    widths = HEADER_WIDTHS,
+    children,
+}: {
+    widths?: typeof HEADER_WIDTHS
+    children: (width: number) => JSX.Element
+}): JSX.Element {
+    return (
+        <div className="space-y-6">
+            {widths.map(({ width, caption }) => (
+                <div key={width} className="space-y-1">
+                    <div className="text-muted text-xs">{caption}</div>
+                    {/* outline rather than border: a border eats 2px of the card's width and shifts the
+                        container-query boundary these captions name. */}
+                    <div className="h-48 overflow-hidden outline outline-1 outline-[var(--border)]" style={{ width }}>
+                        {children(width)}
+                    </div>
+                </div>
+            ))}
+        </div>
+    )
+}
+
+export function ExceptionCardHeaderWidths(): JSX.Element {
+    const event = asErrorEventType(TEST_EVENTS['javascript_resolved'])
+
+    return (
+        <HeaderWidthMatrix>
+            {(width) => (
+                <ExceptionCard issueId={`header-${width}`} issueName="Test Issue" loading={false} event={event} />
+            )}
+        </HeaderWidthMatrix>
+    )
+}
+
+/*
+ * Worst case: the right-hand cell is occupied too, so the tab bar has the least room it ever gets in
+ * production. The action has to survive at every width — the label is the only thing allowed to go.
+ */
+export function ExceptionCardHeaderWidthsWithAction(): JSX.Element {
+    const event = asErrorEventType(TEST_EVENTS['javascript_resolved'])
+
+    return (
+        <HeaderWidthMatrix widths={HEADER_WIDTHS.filter(({ width }) => width <= 576)}>
+            {(width) => (
+                <OpenTimelineTab issueId={`header-action-${width}`}>
+                    <ExceptionCard
+                        issueId={`header-action-${width}`}
+                        issueName="Test Issue"
+                        loading={false}
+                        event={event}
+                    />
+                </OpenTimelineTab>
+            )}
+        </HeaderWidthMatrix>
+    )
+}
+ExceptionCardHeaderWidthsWithAction.parameters = headerActionParameters()
+
+// The action is a ViewLogsButton: feature-flagged, only rendered on the timeline/recording tabs, and
+// gated on the team's logs config. All three have to be satisfied or the right-hand cell renders empty
+// and the story stops testing the crowded case it exists for.
+function headerActionParameters(): Record<string, unknown> {
+    const timeline = sessionTimelineParameters(asErrorEventType(TEST_EVENTS['javascript_resolved']))
+    const timelineMocks = (timeline.msw as { mocks: Mocks }).mocks
+
+    return {
+        featureFlags: [FEATURE_FLAGS.LOGS_IN_ERROR_TRACKING],
+        msw: {
+            mocks: {
+                ...timelineMocks,
+                get: {
+                    'api/projects/:team_id/logs_config/': {
+                        logs_distinct_id_attribute_key: 'posthogDistinctId',
+                        logs_distinct_id_attribute_keys: ['posthogDistinctId'],
+                        logs_session_id_attribute_keys: ['sessionId'],
+                    },
+                },
+            },
+        },
+    }
+}
diff --git a/products/error_tracking/frontend/components/ExceptionCard/ExceptionCard.tsx b/products/error_tracking/frontend/components/ExceptionCard/ExceptionCard.tsx
index 38158cbcd274..a235721fb549 100644
--- a/products/error_tracking/frontend/components/ExceptionCard/ExceptionCard.tsx
+++ b/products/error_tracking/frontend/components/ExceptionCard/ExceptionCard.tsx
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import { BindLogic, useActions, useValues } from 'kea'
-import { useMemo, type CSSProperties } from 'react'
+import { useEffect, useMemo, useRef, type CSSProperties } from 'react'
 
 import { IconLogomark } from '@posthog/icons'
 import { LemonCard } from '@posthog/lemon-ui'
@@ -78,6 +78,26 @@ function ExceptionCardContent({
     const { currentTab } = useValues(exceptionCardLogic)
     const { sessionId } = useValues(errorPropertiesLogic)
     const { setCurrentTab } = useActions(exceptionCardLogic)
+    const headerRef = useRef<HTMLDivElement>(null)
+
+    // Base UI scrolls the active tab into view on mount and on keyboard navigation, but not when the
+    // value changes from elsewhere. The timeline switches to the recording tab on a timestamp click, so
+    // in a narrow pane the active tab can sit outside the scroller with no scrollbar to reveal it.
+    // Nudging scrollLeft rather than calling scrollIntoView keeps ancestors — the page — where they are.
+    useEffect(() => {
+        const list = headerRef.current?.querySelector<HTMLElement>('[data-slot="tabs-list"]')
+        const active = list?.querySelector<HTMLElement>('[data-active]')
+        if (!list || !active) {
+            return
+        }
+        const clippedLeft = active.offsetLeft - list.scrollLeft
+        const clippedRight = active.offsetLeft + active.offsetWidth - (list.scrollLeft + list.clientWidth)
+        if (clippedLeft < 0) {
+            list.scrollLeft += clippedLeft
+        } else if (clippedRight > 0) {
+            list.scrollLeft += clippedRight
+        }
+    }, [currentTab])
 
     return (
         <LemonCard hoverEffect={false} className="p-0 relative w-full h-full border-0 rounded-none flex flex-col">
@@ -95,50 +115,70 @@ function ExceptionCardContent({
                 }}
                 className="flex min-h-0 flex-1 flex-col gap-0"
             >
-                <div className="grid h-10 w-full shrink-0 grid-cols-[1fr_auto_1fr] items-center gap-2 border-b px-2">
-                    <div className="flex h-full min-w-0 items-center gap-1 text-lg">
-                        <IconLogomark />
-                        <span className="text-sm">Exception</span>
-                    </div>
-                    <TabsList variant="line" aria-label="Exception details" className="h-full! self-stretch">
-                        <TabsTrigger
-                            value="stack_trace"
-                            className="text-sm"
-                            style={{ '--background': 'transparent' } as CSSProperties}
-                        >
-                            Stack Trace
-                        </TabsTrigger>
-                        <TabsTrigger
-                            value="properties"
-                            className="text-sm"
-                            style={{ '--background': 'transparent' } as CSSProperties}
-                        >
-                            Properties
-                        </TabsTrigger>
-                        <TabsTrigger
-                            value="timeline"
-                            className="text-sm"
-                            style={{ '--background': 'transparent' } as CSSProperties}
-                        >
-                            Timeline
-                        </TabsTrigger>
-                        <TabsTrigger
-                            value="recording"
-                            className="text-sm"
-                            style={{ '--background': 'transparent' } as CSSProperties}
+                {/* Container query, not viewport: the card sits in a resizable split pane. At @xl and up,
+                    symmetric 1fr gutters centre the tab bar; below it the gutters shrink to their content
+                    so the tab bar keeps the slack. The container wraps the header alone — inline-size
+                    containment zeroes an element's intrinsic width contribution, and on the card as a
+                    whole that collapses it to nothing inside a shrink-to-fit parent. */}
+                <div className="@container/exception-card shrink-0">
+                    <div
+                        ref={headerRef}
+                        className="grid h-10 w-full grid-cols-[auto_minmax(0,1fr)_auto] items-center gap-2 border-b px-2 @xl/exception-card:grid-cols-[minmax(0,1fr)_auto_minmax(0,1fr)]"
+                    >
+                        {/* min-w-0 lets this track collapse, so the cell must clip: an unclipped label draws
+                        over the tab bar. */}
+                        <div className="flex h-full min-w-0 items-center gap-1 overflow-hidden text-lg">
+                            <IconLogomark className="shrink-0" />
+                            {/* sr-only rather than hidden: no room to draw it, but it stays in the a11y tree. */}
+                            <span className="truncate text-sm @max-xl/exception-card:sr-only">Exception</span>
+                        </div>
+                        {/* Under ~390px the tab bar alone does not fit, so it scrolls. justify-start overrides
+                        the list's own justify-center: a centred flex row that overflows spills off *both*
+                        edges, which puts the first tab out of reach of the scroller. */}
+                        <TabsList
+                            variant="line"
+                            aria-label="Exception details"
+                            className="h-full! max-w-full justify-start self-stretch overflow-x-auto hide-scrollbar"
                         >
-                            Recording
-                        </TabsTrigger>
-                    </TabsList>
-                    <div className="flex justify-end">
-                        {sessionId && (currentTab === 'timeline' || currentTab === 'recording') ? (
-                            <ViewLogsButton
-                                sessionId={sessionId}
-                                timestamp={timestamp}
-                                size="xsmall"
-                                data-attr="error-tracking-session-view-logs"
-                            />
-                        ) : null}
+                            <TabsTrigger
+                                value="stack_trace"
+                                className="text-sm"
+                                style={{ '--background': 'transparent' } as CSSProperties}
+                            >
+                                Stack Trace
+                            </TabsTrigger>
+                            <TabsTrigger
+                                value="properties"
+                                className="text-sm"
+                                style={{ '--background': 'transparent' } as CSSProperties}
+                            >
+                                Properties
+                            </TabsTrigger>
+                            <TabsTrigger
+                                value="timeline"
+                                className="text-sm"
+                                style={{ '--background': 'transparent' } as CSSProperties}
+                            >
+                                Timeline
+                            </TabsTrigger>
+                            <TabsTrigger
+                                value="recording"
+                                className="text-sm"
+                                style={{ '--background': 'transparent' } as CSSProperties}
+                            >
+                                Recording
+                            </TabsTrigger>
+                        </TabsList>
+                        <div className="flex justify-end">
+                            {sessionId && (currentTab === 'timeline' || currentTab === 'recording') ? (
+                                <ViewLogsButton
+                                    sessionId={sessionId}
+                                    timestamp={timestamp}
+                                    size="xsmall"
+                                    data-attr="error-tracking-session-view-logs"
+                                />
+                            ) : null}
+                        </div>
                     </div>
                 </div>
                 <StackTraceTab value="stack_trace" renderActions={renderStackTraceActions} className="flex-1 min-h-0" />