diff --git a/handwritten/bigtable/src/utils/mutateInternal.ts b/handwritten/bigtable/src/utils/mutateInternal.ts
index f068543cfe90..d9180a2746a1 100644
--- a/handwritten/bigtable/src/utils/mutateInternal.ts
+++ b/handwritten/bigtable/src/utils/mutateInternal.ts
@@ -146,13 +146,31 @@ export function mutateInternal(
          a status code, the RPC level failure error code will be used as the
          entry failure code.
         */
-      (err as ServiceError & {errors?: ServiceError[]}).errors =
+      const rpcError = err;
+      (rpcError as ServiceError & {errors?: ServiceError[]}).errors =
         mutationErrors.concat(
           [...pendingEntryIndices]
             .filter(index => !mutationErrorsByEntryIndex.has(index))
-            .map(() => err),
+            .map((): ServiceError => {
+              // Carry the RPC-level code and message on a fresh error rather
+              // than pushing `rpcError` into its own `errors` array. A
+              // self-reference makes the returned error impossible to
+              // serialize for tools that follow the AggregateError convention
+              // of recursing into `errors` (e.g. pino).
+              const entryError = new Error(rpcError.message) as ServiceError;
+              entryError.code = rpcError.code;
+              // Preserve the gRPC debugging context that the former
+              // self-reference carried for each entry.
+              if (rpcError.metadata) {
+                entryError.metadata = rpcError.metadata;
+              }
+              if (rpcError.details) {
+                entryError.details = rpcError.details;
+              }
+              return entryError;
+            }),
         );
-      collectMetricsCallback(err, err);
+      collectMetricsCallback(rpcError, rpcError);
       return;
     }
     collectMetricsCallback(null, null);
diff --git a/handwritten/bigtable/test/table.ts b/handwritten/bigtable/test/table.ts
index c10e89145d4e..fc2eed93a341 100644
--- a/handwritten/bigtable/test/table.ts
+++ b/handwritten/bigtable/test/table.ts
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ import * as proxyquire from 'proxyquire';
 import * as pumpify from 'pumpify';
 import * as sinon from 'sinon';
 import {PassThrough, Writable, Duplex} from 'stream';
-import {ServiceError} from 'google-gax';
+import {grpc, ServiceError} from 'google-gax';
 
 import * as inst from '../src/instance';
 import {ChunkTransformer} from '../src/chunktransformer.js';
@@ -2861,6 +2861,9 @@ describe('Bigtable/Table', () => {
         ];
         const unretriableError = new Error('not retryable') as ServiceError;
         unretriableError.code = 3; // INVALID_ARGUMENT
+        unretriableError.metadata = new grpc.Metadata();
+        unretriableError.metadata.set('x-goog-error', 'context');
+        unretriableError.details = 'invalid argument details';
         emitters = [
           ((stream: Writable) => {
             stream.emit('data', {
@@ -2889,6 +2892,18 @@ describe('Bigtable/Table', () => {
               assert.strictEqual(err.errors.length, 1);
               assert.strictEqual(err.errors[0].code, 3);
               assert.strictEqual(err.errors[0].message, 'not retryable');
+              // Regression test for #8075: the per-entry error must not be
+              // `err` itself, otherwise `err.errors` references `err` and the
+              // error can no longer be serialized (e.g. by pino).
+              assert.notStrictEqual(err.errors[0], err);
+              assert.doesNotThrow(() => JSON.stringify(err));
+              // The per-entry error keeps the gRPC metadata and details from
+              // the RPC-level failure so debugging context isn't lost.
+              assert.strictEqual(err.errors[0].metadata, err.metadata);
+              assert.strictEqual(
+                err.errors[0].details,
+                'invalid argument details',
+              );
               done();
             } catch (e) {
               done(e);