diff --git a/.changeset/angry-seahorses-sort.md b/.changeset/angry-seahorses-sort.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..9a8fd68a2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/angry-seahorses-sort.md
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+---
+'@hyperdx/api': minor
+'@hyperdx/app': minor
+---
+
+Breaking Search Syntax Change: Backslashes will be treated as an escape
+character for a double quotes (ex. message:"\"" will search for the double quote
+character). Two backslashes will be treated as a backslash literal (ex.
+message:\\ will search for the backslash literal)
diff --git a/packages/api/src/clickhouse/__tests__/searchQueryParser.test.ts b/packages/api/src/clickhouse/__tests__/searchQueryParser.test.ts
index 8e90b0d88..2493baeea 100644
--- a/packages/api/src/clickhouse/__tests__/searchQueryParser.test.ts
+++ b/packages/api/src/clickhouse/__tests__/searchQueryParser.test.ts
@@ -460,6 +460,36 @@ describe('searchQueryParser', () => {
       ).toEqual('(1 = 0)');
     });
 
+    it('parses escaped quotes in quoted searches', async () => {
+      const ast = parse('foo:"b\\"ar"');
+      jest.spyOn(propertyTypesMappingsModel, 'get').mockReturnValue('string');
+      expect(
+        await genWhereSQL(
+          ast,
+          propertyTypesMappingsModel,
+          'TEAM_ID_UNIT_TESTS',
+        ),
+      ).toEqual(eq("_string_attributes['foo']", 'b\\"ar'));
+    });
+
+    it('parses backslash literals', async () => {
+      const ast = parse('foo:"b\\\\ar"');
+      jest.spyOn(propertyTypesMappingsModel, 'get').mockReturnValue('string');
+      expect(
+        await genWhereSQL(
+          ast,
+          propertyTypesMappingsModel,
+          'TEAM_ID_UNIT_TESTS',
+        ),
+      ).toEqual(eq("_string_attributes['foo']", 'b\\\\ar'));
+    });
+
+    it('does not escape quotes with backslash literals', async () => {
+      expect(() => parse('foo:"b\\\\"ar"')).toThrowErrorMatchingInlineSnapshot(
+        `"Expected \\"\\\\\\"\\", \\"\\\\\\\\\\", or any character but end of input found."`,
+      );
+    });
+
     describe('negation', () => {
       it('negates property values', async () => {
         const ast = parse('-foo:bar');
diff --git a/packages/api/src/clickhouse/searchQueryParser.ts b/packages/api/src/clickhouse/searchQueryParser.ts
index 0e989163e..dc11850b7 100644
--- a/packages/api/src/clickhouse/searchQueryParser.ts
+++ b/packages/api/src/clickhouse/searchQueryParser.ts
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ import { PropertyTypeMappingsModel } from './propertyTypeMappingsModel';
 
 function encodeSpecialTokens(query: string): string {
   return query
+    .replace(/\\\\/g, 'HDX_BACKSLASH_LITERAL')
     .replace('http://', 'http_COLON_//')
     .replace('https://', 'https_COLON_//')
     .replace(/localhost:(\d{1,5})/, 'localhost_COLON_$1')
@@ -15,6 +16,8 @@ function encodeSpecialTokens(query: string): string {
 }
 function decodeSpecialTokens(query: string): string {
   return query
+    .replace(/\\"/g, '"')
+    .replace(/HDX_BACKSLASH_LITERAL/g, '\\')
     .replace('http_COLON_//', 'http://')
     .replace('https_COLON_//', 'https://')
     .replace(/localhost_COLON_(\d{1,5})/, 'localhost:$1')
diff --git a/packages/app/src/DBQuerySidePanel.tsx b/packages/app/src/DBQuerySidePanel.tsx
index 2b752ddc2..2d301b600 100644
--- a/packages/app/src/DBQuerySidePanel.tsx
+++ b/packages/app/src/DBQuerySidePanel.tsx
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ export default function DBQuerySidePanel() {
   const scopeWhereQuery = React.useCallback(
     (where: string) => {
       const spanNameQuery = dbQuery
-        ? `${DB_STATEMENT_PROPERTY}:"${dbQuery}" `
+        ? `${DB_STATEMENT_PROPERTY}:"${dbQuery.replace(/"/g, '\\"')}" `
         : '';
       const whereQuery = where ? `(${where})` : '';
       const serviceQuery = service ? `service:"${service}" ` : '';
diff --git a/packages/app/src/queryv2.ts b/packages/app/src/queryv2.ts
index 25d710476..a9e2b4312 100644
--- a/packages/app/src/queryv2.ts
+++ b/packages/app/src/queryv2.ts
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ import lucene from '@hyperdx/lucene';
 
 function encodeSpecialTokens(query: string): string {
   return query
+    .replace(/\\\\/g, 'HDX_BACKSLASH_LITERAL')
     .replace('http://', 'http_COLON_//')
     .replace('https://', 'https_COLON_//')
     .replace(/localhost:(\d{1,5})/, 'localhost_COLON_$1')
@@ -9,6 +10,8 @@ function encodeSpecialTokens(query: string): string {
 }
 function decodeSpecialTokens(query: string): string {
   return query
+    .replace(/\\"/g, '"')
+    .replace(/HDX_BACKSLASH_LITERAL/g, '\\')
     .replace('http_COLON_//', 'http://')
     .replace('https_COLON_//', 'https://')
     .replace(/localhost_COLON_(\d{1,5})/, 'localhost:$1')