diff --git a/packages/playwright-core/src/client/fetch.ts b/packages/playwright-core/src/client/fetch.ts
index 61194ea345..5193a5237c 100644
--- a/packages/playwright-core/src/client/fetch.ts
+++ b/packages/playwright-core/src/client/fetch.ts
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ import * as network from './network';
 import { RawHeaders } from './network';
 import { FilePayload, Headers, StorageState } from './types';
 import { Playwright } from './playwright';
+import { createInstrumentation } from './clientInstrumentation';
 
 export type FetchOptions = {
   params?: { [key: string]: string; },
@@ -51,6 +52,12 @@ type RequestWithoutBodyOptions = Omit<RequestWithBodyOptions, 'data'|'form'|'mul
 
 export class APIRequest implements api.APIRequest {
   private _playwright: Playwright;
+  readonly _contexts = new Set<APIRequestContext>();
+
+  // Instrumentation.
+  _onDidCreateContext?: (context: APIRequestContext) => Promise<void>;
+  _onWillCloseContext?: (context: APIRequestContext) => Promise<void>;
+
   constructor(playwright: Playwright) {
     this._playwright = playwright;
   }
@@ -59,25 +66,34 @@ export class APIRequest implements api.APIRequest {
     const storageState = typeof options.storageState === 'string' ?
       JSON.parse(await fs.promises.readFile(options.storageState, 'utf8')) :
       options.storageState;
-    return APIRequestContext.from((await this._playwright._channel.newRequest({
+    const context = APIRequestContext.from((await this._playwright._channel.newRequest({
       ...options,
       extraHTTPHeaders: options.extraHTTPHeaders ? headersObjectToArray(options.extraHTTPHeaders) : undefined,
       storageState,
     })).request);
+    this._contexts.add(context);
+    await this._onDidCreateContext?.(context);
+    return context;
   }
 }
 
 export class APIRequestContext extends ChannelOwner<channels.APIRequestContextChannel> implements api.APIRequestContext {
+  private _request?: APIRequest;
+
   static from(channel: channels.APIRequestContextChannel): APIRequestContext {
     return (channel as any)._object;
   }
 
   constructor(parent: ChannelOwner, type: string, guid: string, initializer: channels.APIRequestContextInitializer) {
-    super(parent, type, guid, initializer);
+    super(parent, type, guid, initializer, createInstrumentation());
+    if (parent instanceof APIRequest)
+      this._request = parent;
   }
 
   async dispose(): Promise<void> {
+    await this._request?._onWillCloseContext?.(this);
     await this._channel.dispose();
+    this._request?._contexts.delete(this);
   }
 
   async delete(url: string, options?: RequestWithBodyOptions): Promise<APIResponse> {
diff --git a/packages/playwright-test/src/index.ts b/packages/playwright-test/src/index.ts
index 7249809221..f3f995a72e 100644
--- a/packages/playwright-test/src/index.ts
+++ b/packages/playwright-test/src/index.ts
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 
 import * as fs from 'fs';
 import * as path from 'path';
-import type { LaunchOptions, BrowserContextOptions, Page, BrowserContext, BrowserType, Video, Browser } from 'playwright-core';
+import type { LaunchOptions, BrowserContextOptions, Page, BrowserContext, BrowserType, Video, Browser, APIRequestContext } from 'playwright-core';
 import type { TestType, PlaywrightTestArgs, PlaywrightTestOptions, PlaywrightWorkerArgs, PlaywrightWorkerOptions, TestInfo } from '../types/test';
 import { rootTestType } from './testType';
 import { createGuid, removeFolders } from 'playwright-core/lib/utils/utils';
@@ -199,30 +199,15 @@ export const test = _baseTest.extend<TestFixtures, WorkerFixtures>({
     const temporaryScreenshots: string[] = [];
     const createdContexts = new Set<BrowserContext>();
 
-    const onDidCreateContext = async (context: BrowserContext) => {
-      createdContexts.add(context);
-      context.setDefaultTimeout(testInfo.timeout === 0 ? 0 : (actionTimeout || 0));
-      context.setDefaultNavigationTimeout(testInfo.timeout === 0 ? 0 : (navigationTimeout || actionTimeout || 0));
-      if (captureTrace) {
-        const title = [path.relative(testInfo.project.testDir, testInfo.file) + ':' + testInfo.line, ...testInfo.titlePath.slice(1)].join(' › ');
-        if (!(context.tracing as any)[kTracingStarted]) {
-          await context.tracing.start({ ...traceOptions, title });
-          (context.tracing as any)[kTracingStarted] = true;
-        } else {
-          await context.tracing.startChunk({ title });
-        }
-      } else {
-        (context.tracing as any)[kTracingStarted] = false;
-        await context.tracing.stop();
-      }
-      (context as any)._instrumentation.addListener({
+    const createInstrumentationListener = (context?: BrowserContext) => {
+      return {
         onApiCallBegin: (apiCall: string, stackTrace: ParsedStackTrace | null, userData: any) => {
           if (apiCall.startsWith('expect.'))
             return { userObject: null };
           if (apiCall === 'page.pause') {
             testInfo.setTimeout(0);
-            context.setDefaultNavigationTimeout(0);
-            context.setDefaultTimeout(0);
+            context?.setDefaultNavigationTimeout(0);
+            context?.setDefaultTimeout(0);
           }
           const testInfoImpl = testInfo as any;
           const step = testInfoImpl._addStep({
@@ -238,7 +223,31 @@ export const test = _baseTest.extend<TestFixtures, WorkerFixtures>({
           const step = userData.userObject;
           step?.complete(error);
         },
-      });
+      };
+    };
+
+    const onDidCreateBrowserContext = async (context: BrowserContext) => {
+      createdContexts.add(context);
+      context.setDefaultTimeout(testInfo.timeout === 0 ? 0 : (actionTimeout || 0));
+      context.setDefaultNavigationTimeout(testInfo.timeout === 0 ? 0 : (navigationTimeout || actionTimeout || 0));
+      if (captureTrace) {
+        const title = [path.relative(testInfo.project.testDir, testInfo.file) + ':' + testInfo.line, ...testInfo.titlePath.slice(1)].join(' › ');
+        if (!(context.tracing as any)[kTracingStarted]) {
+          await context.tracing.start({ ...traceOptions, title });
+          (context.tracing as any)[kTracingStarted] = true;
+        } else {
+          await context.tracing.startChunk({ title });
+        }
+      } else {
+        (context.tracing as any)[kTracingStarted] = false;
+        await context.tracing.stop();
+      }
+      const listener = createInstrumentationListener(context);
+      (context as any)._instrumentation.addListener(listener);
+      (context.request as any)._instrumentation.addListener(listener);
+    };
+    const onDidCreateRequestContext = async (context: APIRequestContext) => {
+      (context as any)._instrumentation.addListener(createInstrumentationListener());
     };
 
     const startedCollectingArtifacts = Symbol('startedCollectingArtifacts');
@@ -265,12 +274,13 @@ export const test = _baseTest.extend<TestFixtures, WorkerFixtures>({
 
     // 1. Setup instrumentation and process existing contexts.
     for (const browserType of [playwright.chromium, playwright.firefox, playwright.webkit]) {
-      (browserType as any)._onDidCreateContext = onDidCreateContext;
+      (browserType as any)._onDidCreateContext = onDidCreateBrowserContext;
       (browserType as any)._onWillCloseContext = onWillCloseContext;
       (browserType as any)._defaultContextOptions = _combinedContextOptions;
       const existingContexts = Array.from((browserType as any)._contexts) as BrowserContext[];
-      await Promise.all(existingContexts.map(onDidCreateContext));
+      await Promise.all(existingContexts.map(onDidCreateBrowserContext));
     }
+    (playwright.request as any)._onDidCreateContext = onDidCreateRequestContext;
 
     // 2. Run the test.
     await use();
@@ -305,6 +315,9 @@ export const test = _baseTest.extend<TestFixtures, WorkerFixtures>({
       (browserType as any)._defaultContextOptions = undefined;
     }
     leftoverContexts.forEach(context => (context as any)._instrumentation.removeAllListeners());
+    (playwright.request as any)._onDidCreateContext = undefined;
+    for (const context of (playwright.request as any)._contexts)
+      context._instrumentation.removeAllListeners();
 
     // 5. Collect artifacts from any non-closed contexts.
     await Promise.all(leftoverContexts.map(async context => {
diff --git a/tests/playwright-test/reporter.spec.ts b/tests/playwright-test/reporter.spec.ts
index cf8c3e5e7e..bffd0e5c62 100644
--- a/tests/playwright-test/reporter.spec.ts
+++ b/tests/playwright-test/reporter.spec.ts
@@ -58,6 +58,8 @@ class Reporter {
   onStepEnd(test, result, step) {
     if (step.error?.stack)
       step.error.stack = '<stack>';
+    if (step.error?.message.includes('getaddrinfo'))
+      step.error.message = '<message>';
     console.log('%%%% end', JSON.stringify(this.distillStep(step)));
   }
 }
@@ -258,12 +260,14 @@ test('should report api steps', async ({ runInlineTest }) => {
     `,
     'a.test.ts': `
       const { test } = pwt;
-      test('pass', async ({ page }) => {
+      test('pass', async ({ page, request }) => {
         await Promise.all([
           page.waitForNavigation(),
           page.goto('data:text/html,<button></button>'),
         ]);
         await page.click('button');
+        await page.request.get('http://localhost2').catch(() => {});
+        await request.get('http://localhost2').catch(() => {});
       });
 
       test.describe('suite', () => {
@@ -299,10 +303,16 @@ test('should report api steps', async ({ runInlineTest }) => {
     `%% end {\"title\":\"page.goto(data:text/html,<button></button>)\",\"category\":\"pw:api\"}`,
     `%% begin {\"title\":\"page.click(button)\",\"category\":\"pw:api\"}`,
     `%% end {\"title\":\"page.click(button)\",\"category\":\"pw:api\"}`,
+    `%% begin {"title":"apiRequestContext.get(http://localhost2)","category":"pw:api"}`,
+    `%% end {"title":"apiRequestContext.get(http://localhost2)","category":"pw:api","error":{"message":"<message>","stack":"<stack>"}}`,
+    `%% begin {"title":"apiRequestContext.get(http://localhost2)","category":"pw:api"}`,
+    `%% end {"title":"apiRequestContext.get(http://localhost2)","category":"pw:api","error":{"message":"<message>","stack":"<stack>"}}`,
     `%% begin {\"title\":\"After Hooks\",\"category\":\"hook\"}`,
+    `%% begin {\"title\":\"apiRequestContext.dispose\",\"category\":\"pw:api\"}`,
+    `%% end {\"title\":\"apiRequestContext.dispose\",\"category\":\"pw:api\"}`,
     `%% begin {\"title\":\"browserContext.close\",\"category\":\"pw:api\"}`,
     `%% end {\"title\":\"browserContext.close\",\"category\":\"pw:api\"}`,
-    `%% end {\"title\":\"After Hooks\",\"category\":\"hook\",\"steps\":[{\"title\":\"browserContext.close\",\"category\":\"pw:api\"}]}`,
+    `%% end {\"title\":\"After Hooks\",\"category\":\"hook\",\"steps\":[{\"title\":\"apiRequestContext.dispose\",\"category\":\"pw:api\"},{\"title\":\"browserContext.close\",\"category\":\"pw:api\"}]}`,
     `%% begin {\"title\":\"Before Hooks\",\"category\":\"hook\"}`,
     `%% end {\"title\":\"Before Hooks\",\"category\":\"hook\"}`,
     `%% begin {\"title\":\"browser.newPage\",\"category\":\"pw:api\"}`,