diff --git a/messages/de.json b/messages/de.json
index fad8a7342..5fea285f0 100644
--- a/messages/de.json
+++ b/messages/de.json
@@ -7490,7 +7490,11 @@
       "countOther": "{count} Fehlschläge",
       "lastFailed": "Letzter Fehlschlag {when}"
     },
-    "deleteAllDetail": "Nutzerkonten bleiben bestehen."
+    "deleteAllDetail": "Nutzerkonten bleiben bestehen.",
+    "cardError": {
+      "title": "Dieser Teil der Seite konnte nicht angezeigt werden",
+      "description": "Der Rest der Seite funktioniert weiter; versuche es erneut oder lade neu, wenn es bleibt."
+    }
   },
   "achievements": {
     "title": "Erfolge",
diff --git a/messages/en.json b/messages/en.json
index f03291ef3..ff67a71e9 100644
--- a/messages/en.json
+++ b/messages/en.json
@@ -7490,7 +7490,11 @@
       "countOther": "{count} failures",
       "lastFailed": "Last failure {when}"
     },
-    "deleteAllDetail": "User accounts will be preserved."
+    "deleteAllDetail": "User accounts will be preserved.",
+    "cardError": {
+      "title": "This part of the page could not be shown",
+      "description": "The rest of the page still works; try again or reload if it keeps failing."
+    }
   },
   "achievements": {
     "title": "Achievements",
diff --git a/messages/es.json b/messages/es.json
index 2cf130ebd..241ebd154 100644
--- a/messages/es.json
+++ b/messages/es.json
@@ -7490,7 +7490,11 @@
       "countOther": "{count} fallos",
       "lastFailed": "Último fallo {when}"
     },
-    "deleteAllDetail": "Las cuentas de usuario se conservarán."
+    "deleteAllDetail": "Las cuentas de usuario se conservarán.",
+    "cardError": {
+      "title": "Esta parte de la página no se pudo mostrar",
+      "description": "El resto de la página sigue funcionando; inténtalo de nuevo o recarga si el fallo continúa."
+    }
   },
   "achievements": {
     "title": "Logros",
diff --git a/messages/fr.json b/messages/fr.json
index dafcf4538..64cbe69f1 100644
--- a/messages/fr.json
+++ b/messages/fr.json
@@ -7490,7 +7490,11 @@
       "countOther": "{count} échecs",
       "lastFailed": "Dernier échec {when}"
     },
-    "deleteAllDetail": "Les comptes utilisateurs sont conservés."
+    "deleteAllDetail": "Les comptes utilisateurs sont conservés.",
+    "cardError": {
+      "title": "Cette partie de la page n’a pas pu s’afficher",
+      "description": "Le reste de la page fonctionne ; réessayez ou rechargez si le problème persiste."
+    }
   },
   "achievements": {
     "title": "Réussites",
diff --git a/messages/it.json b/messages/it.json
index 8dbe44376..404c0ba2d 100644
--- a/messages/it.json
+++ b/messages/it.json
@@ -7490,7 +7490,11 @@
       "countOther": "{count} errori",
       "lastFailed": "Ultimo errore {when}"
     },
-    "deleteAllDetail": "Gli account utente vengono conservati."
+    "deleteAllDetail": "Gli account utente vengono conservati.",
+    "cardError": {
+      "title": "Questa parte della pagina non è stata mostrata",
+      "description": "Il resto della pagina funziona; riprova o ricarica se il problema continua."
+    }
   },
   "achievements": {
     "title": "Obiettivi",
diff --git a/messages/ko.json b/messages/ko.json
index a0f83be9a..8ce36f817 100644
--- a/messages/ko.json
+++ b/messages/ko.json
@@ -7490,6 +7490,10 @@
       "typeLocal": "로컬 모델 (개인)",
       "typeGateway": "OpenAI 호환 게이트웨이 (개인)",
       "spendToday": "오늘({date}): 토큰 {total}개, 그중 {operator}개는 운영자 키에서 사용되었습니다."
+    },
+    "cardError": {
+      "title": "페이지의 이 부분을 표시할 수 없습니다",
+      "description": "페이지의 나머지 부분은 계속 작동합니다. 다시 시도하거나 계속 실패하면 새로고침하세요."
     }
   },
   "achievements": {
diff --git a/messages/pl.json b/messages/pl.json
index dedf56606..fccc01aca 100644
--- a/messages/pl.json
+++ b/messages/pl.json
@@ -7490,7 +7490,11 @@
       "countOther": "{count} niepowodzeń",
       "lastFailed": "Ostatnie niepowodzenie {when}"
     },
-    "deleteAllDetail": "Konta użytkowników zostaną zachowane."
+    "deleteAllDetail": "Konta użytkowników zostaną zachowane.",
+    "cardError": {
+      "title": "Nie udało się wyświetlić tej części strony",
+      "description": "Reszta strony działa; spróbuj ponownie lub odśwież, jeśli błąd się powtarza."
+    }
   },
   "achievements": {
     "title": "Osiągnięcia",
diff --git a/src/app/admin/[section]/renderer.tsx b/src/app/admin/[section]/renderer.tsx
index 24ac6042a..cfb9fdc8e 100644
--- a/src/app/admin/[section]/renderer.tsx
+++ b/src/app/admin/[section]/renderer.tsx
@@ -12,10 +12,11 @@
  * read `useAuth()` to gate rendering).
  */
 
-import type { JSX } from "react";
+import { Children, type JSX } from "react";
 
 import { useAuth } from "@/hooks/use-auth";
 import { AboutSection } from "@/components/settings/about-section";
+import { AdminCardBoundary } from "@/components/admin/admin-card-boundary";
 import { AiQualitySection } from "@/components/admin/ai-quality-section";
 import { AiServerKeySection } from "@/components/admin/ai-server-key-section";
 import { ProviderHealthSection } from "@/components/admin/provider-health-section";
@@ -189,5 +190,13 @@ export function AdminSectionRenderer({
  * believes, so it is gone.
  */
 function SectionFrame({ children }: { children: React.ReactNode }) {
-  return <div className="space-y-6">{children}</div>;
+  // Each card fails alone: one that throws while rendering paints an error
+  // card in its place instead of taking its neighbours down with it.
+  return (
+    <div className="space-y-6">
+      {Children.map(children, (card) => (
+        <AdminCardBoundary>{card}</AdminCardBoundary>
+      ))}
+    </div>
+  );
 }
diff --git a/src/components/admin/__tests__/admin-card-boundary.test.tsx b/src/components/admin/__tests__/admin-card-boundary.test.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..275b0d52b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/components/admin/__tests__/admin-card-boundary.test.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,88 @@
+/**
+ * One admin card that throws while rendering paints an error card in its own
+ * place, and the page around it keeps working.
+ *
+ * The component suite renders on the server, where React does not run error
+ * boundaries, so the boundary's three moves are exercised directly: a thrown
+ * render flips it to the fallback, the fallback is the translated error card
+ * with a retry, and the retry puts the card back under a new key so it
+ * remounts rather than re-rendering the tree that threw.
+ */
+import type { ReactElement, ReactNode } from "react";
+import { renderToStaticMarkup } from "react-dom/server";
+import { describe, expect, it, vi } from "vitest";
+
+import { I18nProvider } from "@/lib/i18n/context";
+import {
+  AdminCardBoundary,
+  AdminCardError,
+  Boundary,
+} from "../admin-card-boundary";
+
+function markup(node: ReactNode): string {
+  return renderToStaticMarkup(
+    <I18nProvider initialLocale="en">{node}</I18nProvider>,
+  );
+}
+
+function boundaryWith(fallback: (retry: () => void) => ReactNode) {
+  const boundary = new Boundary({
+    renderFallback: fallback,
+    children: <p>card body</p>,
+  });
+  // Outside a mounted tree `setState` does nothing, so apply it in place.
+  boundary.setState = ((update: unknown) => {
+    const next =
+      typeof update === "function"
+        ? (update as (s: typeof boundary.state) => object)(boundary.state)
+        : (update as object);
+    boundary.state = { ...boundary.state, ...next };
+  }) as typeof boundary.setState;
+  return boundary;
+}
+
+describe("AdminCardBoundary", () => {
+  it("renders the card untouched while nothing has thrown", () => {
+    const html = markup(
+      <AdminCardBoundary>
+        <p data-slot="healthy-card">card body</p>
+      </AdminCardBoundary>,
+    );
+    expect(html).toContain('data-slot="healthy-card"');
+    expect(html).not.toContain('data-slot="query-error-card"');
+  });
+
+  it("turns a thrown render into the fallback, not a page failure", () => {
+    expect(Boundary.getDerivedStateFromError()).toEqual({ failed: true });
+
+    const fallback = vi.fn(() => <p data-slot="fallback">fallback</p>);
+    const boundary = boundaryWith(fallback);
+    boundary.setState(Boundary.getDerivedStateFromError());
+
+    expect(markup(boundary.render())).toContain('data-slot="fallback"');
+    expect(fallback).toHaveBeenCalledWith(boundary.retry);
+  });
+
+  it("paints the translated error card with a keyboard-reachable retry", () => {
+    const html = markup(<AdminCardError onRetry={() => {}} />);
+
+    expect(html).toContain('data-slot="query-error-card"');
+    expect(html).toContain('role="alert"');
+    expect(html).toContain("This part of the page could not be shown");
+    expect(html).toContain("The rest of the page still works");
+    expect(html).toContain('data-slot="query-error-retry"');
+  });
+
+  it("retries by remounting the card under a new key", () => {
+    const boundary = boundaryWith(() => null);
+    const before = boundary.render() as ReactElement;
+    boundary.setState({ failed: true });
+
+    boundary.retry();
+
+    expect(boundary.state.failed).toBe(false);
+    const after = boundary.render() as ReactElement;
+    expect(after.key).not.toBe(before.key);
+    expect(markup(after)).toContain("card body");
+  });
+});
diff --git a/src/components/admin/admin-card-boundary.tsx b/src/components/admin/admin-card-boundary.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..6db7cf035
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/components/admin/admin-card-boundary.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,76 @@
+"use client";
+
+import { Component, Fragment, type ReactNode } from "react";
+
+import { QueryErrorCard } from "@/components/ui/query-error-card";
+import { useTranslations } from "@/lib/i18n/context";
+
+/**
+ * One admin card's error boundary.
+ *
+ * An admin page stacks independent cards, each reading its own endpoint. A
+ * card that threw while rendering took the whole page with it: a field the
+ * off-host card read and a stale payload did not carry left the backups page
+ * without its snapshot table, the one card the operator had come for. Each
+ * card now fails alone, as a `QueryErrorCard` in its place, and the others
+ * keep working. "Try again" remounts the card, which refetches what it reads;
+ * the error still reaches the client error tracker.
+ */
+export function AdminCardBoundary({ children }: { children: ReactNode }) {
+  return (
+    <Boundary renderFallback={(retry) => <AdminCardError onRetry={retry} />}>
+      {children}
+    </Boundary>
+  );
+}
+
+/** What a failed card paints in its place. */
+export function AdminCardError({ onRetry }: { onRetry: () => void }) {
+  const { t } = useTranslations();
+  return (
+    <QueryErrorCard
+      title={t("admin.cardError.title")}
+      description={t("admin.cardError.description")}
+      onRetry={onRetry}
+    />
+  );
+}
+
+export interface BoundaryProps {
+  renderFallback: (retry: () => void) => ReactNode;
+  children: ReactNode;
+}
+
+interface BoundaryState {
+  failed: boolean;
+  attempt: number;
+}
+
+/** The boundary itself, exported for its unit test. */
+export class Boundary extends Component<BoundaryProps, BoundaryState> {
+  state: BoundaryState = { failed: false, attempt: 0 };
+
+  static getDerivedStateFromError(): Pick<BoundaryState, "failed"> {
+    return { failed: true };
+  }
+
+  componentDidCatch(error: Error): void {
+    if (typeof window !== "undefined") {
+      const g = window as typeof window & {
+        __healthlog_onError?: (err: Error) => void;
+      };
+      g.__healthlog_onError?.(error);
+    }
+  }
+
+  retry = (): void => {
+    this.setState((s) => ({ failed: false, attempt: s.attempt + 1 }));
+  };
+
+  render(): ReactNode {
+    if (this.state.failed) return this.props.renderFallback(this.retry);
+    // A new key on retry remounts the card, so it starts from a clean state
+    // rather than re-rendering the tree that threw.
+    return <Fragment key={this.state.attempt}>{this.props.children}</Fragment>;
+  }
+}