diff --git a/opbeat/contrib/django/client.py b/opbeat/contrib/django/client.py
index ac921b2d..91e6e4a0 100644
--- a/opbeat/contrib/django/client.py
+++ b/opbeat/contrib/django/client.py
@@ -106,15 +106,19 @@ def get_data_from_request(self, request):
 
         if request.method != 'GET':
             try:
-                if hasattr(request, 'body'):
+                try:
                     # Django 1.4+
+                    # NOTE: on Python 2.7 `hasattr(request, 'body')` returns
+                    # False, while it might throw the exception from Django in
+                    # Python 3.
                     raw_data = request.body
-                else:
+                except AttributeError:
                     raw_data = request.raw_post_data
                 data = raw_data if raw_data else request.POST
-            except Exception:
-                # assume we had a partial read:
-                data = '<unavailable>'
+            except Exception as exc:
+                # Assume we had a partial read, or multipart/form-data:
+                data = '<unavailable ({0}: {1})>\nrequest.POST: {2}'.format(
+                    exc.__class__.__name__, exc, request.POST)
         else:
             data = None
 
diff --git a/tests/contrib/django/django_tests.py b/tests/contrib/django/django_tests.py
index b01e7bcb..ca6df9d4 100644
--- a/tests/contrib/django/django_tests.py
+++ b/tests/contrib/django/django_tests.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 import pytest  # isort:skip
 
-django = pytest.importorskip("django")  # isort:skip
+django = pytest.importorskip("django")  # noqa: E402 isort:skip
 
 import datetime
 import logging
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
 from django.test import TestCase
 from django.test.client import Client as _TestClient
 from django.test.client import ClientHandler as _TestClientHandler
+from django.test.client import FakePayload
 from django.test.utils import override_settings
 
 import mock
@@ -518,7 +519,12 @@ def test_raw_post_data_partial_read(self):
         self.assertTrue('http' in event)
         http = event['http']
         self.assertEquals(http['method'], 'POST')
-        self.assertEquals(http['data'], '<unavailable>')
+        if django.VERSION >= (1, 7):
+            expected_exception = 'RawPostDataException'
+        else:
+            expected_exception = 'Exception'
+        self.assertEquals(http['data'], "<unavailable ({0}: You cannot access body after reading from request's data stream)>\nrequest.POST: {1}".format(expected_exception, request.POST))
+        self.assertEquals(request.POST, {})
 
     def test_post_data(self):
         request = WSGIRequest(environ={
@@ -598,7 +604,7 @@ def test_disallowed_hosts_error_django_18(self):
         self.assertEqual(event['http']['url'], None)
 
     # This test only applies to Django 1.3+
-    def test_request_capture(self):
+    def test_request_capture_partial_read(self):
         if django.VERSION[:2] < (1, 3):
             return
         request = WSGIRequest(environ={
@@ -619,7 +625,12 @@ def test_request_capture(self):
         self.assertTrue('http' in event)
         http = event['http']
         self.assertEquals(http['method'], 'POST')
-        self.assertEquals(http['data'], '<unavailable>')
+        if django.VERSION >= (1, 7):
+            expected_exception = 'RawPostDataException'
+        else:
+            expected_exception = 'Exception'
+        self.assertEquals(http['data'], "<unavailable ({0}: You cannot access body after reading from request's data stream)>\nrequest.POST: {1}".format(expected_exception, request.POST))
+        # self.assertEquals(http['data'], '{}')
         self.assertTrue('headers' in http)
         headers = http['headers']
         self.assertTrue('Content-Type' in headers, headers.keys())
@@ -630,6 +641,52 @@ def test_request_capture(self):
         self.assertTrue('SERVER_PORT' in env, env.keys())
         self.assertEquals(env['SERVER_PORT'], '80')
 
+    def test_request_capture_multipart_formdata(self):
+        if django.VERSION[:2] < (1, 3):
+            return
+
+        payload = FakePayload("\r\n".join([
+            '--boundary',
+            'Content-Disposition: form-data; name="name"',
+            '',
+            'value',
+            '--boundary--'
+            '']))
+        request = WSGIRequest({
+            'REQUEST_METHOD': 'POST',
+            'SERVER_NAME': 'testserver',
+            'SERVER_PORT': '80',
+            'CONTENT_TYPE': 'multipart/form-data; boundary=boundary',
+            'CONTENT_LENGTH': 78,
+            'wsgi.input': payload})
+
+        # Read POST data to trigger exception when accessing request.body.
+        self.assertEqual(request.POST, {'name': ['value']})
+
+        self.opbeat.capture('Message', message='foo', request=request)
+
+        self.assertEquals(len(self.opbeat.events), 1)
+        event = self.opbeat.events.pop(0)
+
+        self.assertTrue('http' in event)
+        http = event['http']
+        self.assertEquals(http['method'], 'POST')
+        if django.VERSION >= (1, 7):
+            expected_exception = 'RawPostDataException'
+        else:
+            expected_exception = 'Exception'
+        self.assertEquals(http['data'], "<unavailable ({0}: You cannot access body after reading from request's data stream)>\nrequest.POST: {1}".format(expected_exception, request.POST))
+        # self.assertEquals(http['data'], '{}')
+        self.assertTrue('headers' in http)
+        headers = http['headers']
+        self.assertTrue('Content-Type' in headers, headers.keys())
+        self.assertEquals(headers['Content-Type'], 'multipart/form-data; boundary=boundary')
+        env = http['env']
+        self.assertTrue('SERVER_NAME' in env, env.keys())
+        self.assertEquals(env['SERVER_NAME'], 'testserver')
+        self.assertTrue('SERVER_PORT' in env, env.keys())
+        self.assertEquals(env['SERVER_PORT'], '80')
+
     def test_transaction_metrics(self):
         self.opbeat.instrumentation_store.get_all()  # clear the store
         with self.settings(MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES=[