diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 0fa05779d2..4d9846c125 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1514,7 +1514,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "thiserror",
  "tokio",
  "tokio-stream",
- "tokio-util",
+ "tokio-util 0.6.9",
  "tonic 0.4.3",
  "tracing",
  "tracing-appender",
@@ -1958,7 +1958,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "indexmap",
  "slab",
  "tokio",
- "tokio-util",
+ "tokio-util 0.6.9",
  "tracing",
 ]
 
@@ -2458,7 +2458,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "time",
  "tokio",
  "tokio-stream",
- "tokio-util",
+ "tokio-util 0.6.9",
  "tonic 0.6.2",
  "tracing",
  "tracing-appender",
@@ -5024,7 +5024,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "futures-core",
  "pin-project-lite",
  "tokio",
- "tokio-util",
+ "tokio-util 0.6.9",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -5055,6 +5055,20 @@ dependencies = [
  "tokio",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "tokio-util"
+version = "0.7.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "0edfdeb067411dba2044da6d1cb2df793dd35add7888d73c16e3381ded401764"
+dependencies = [
+ "bytes",
+ "futures-core",
+ "futures-sink",
+ "pin-project-lite",
+ "tokio",
+ "tracing",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "toml"
 version = "0.5.8"
@@ -5086,7 +5100,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "prost-derive 0.7.0",
  "tokio",
  "tokio-stream",
- "tokio-util",
+ "tokio-util 0.6.9",
  "tower",
  "tower-service",
  "tracing",
@@ -5116,7 +5130,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "prost-derive 0.9.0",
  "tokio",
  "tokio-stream",
- "tokio-util",
+ "tokio-util 0.6.9",
  "tower",
  "tower-layer",
  "tower-service",
@@ -5151,7 +5165,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "slab",
  "tokio",
  "tokio-stream",
- "tokio-util",
+ "tokio-util 0.6.9",
  "tower-layer",
  "tower-service",
  "tracing",
@@ -5206,9 +5220,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "tracing-core"
-version = "0.1.22"
+version = "0.1.26"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "03cfcb51380632a72d3111cb8d3447a8d908e577d31beeac006f836383d29a23"
+checksum = "f54c8ca710e81886d498c2fd3331b56c93aa248d49de2222ad2742247c60072f"
 dependencies = [
  "lazy_static",
  "valuable",
@@ -5226,9 +5240,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "tracing-gelf"
-version = "0.6.0"
+version = "0.7.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "bef407d785989f789a53a00c9a6196735ef6e407ae2bb20e0282b3b9dc271f66"
+checksum = "e42df83d1aeae02b07db7a7758af84970fbe327cc6abc537c13da86899505e68"
 dependencies = [
  "bytes",
  "futures-channel",
@@ -5237,7 +5251,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "serde_json",
  "thiserror",
  "tokio",
- "tokio-util",
+ "tokio-util 0.7.1",
  "tracing-core",
  "tracing-futures",
  "tracing-subscriber",
@@ -5563,7 +5577,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "tokio-rustls 0.22.0",
  "tokio-stream",
  "tokio-tungstenite",
- "tokio-util",
+ "tokio-util 0.6.9",
  "tower-service",
  "tracing",
 ]
diff --git a/explorer/Cargo.toml b/explorer/Cargo.toml
index 92f0e4887f..d216853bc6 100644
--- a/explorer/Cargo.toml
+++ b/explorer/Cargo.toml
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ url = "2.1.1"
 warp = {version = "0.3.1", features = ["tls"]}
 tracing = "0.1"
 tracing-futures = "0.2"
-tracing-gelf = { version = "0.6", optional = true }
+tracing-gelf = { version = "0.7", optional = true }
 tracing-subscriber = { version = "0.3", features = ["fmt", "json"] }
 tracing-appender = "0.2"
 tokio = { version = "^1.4", features = ["rt-multi-thread", "time", "sync", "rt", "signal", "test-util"] }
diff --git a/jormungandr/Cargo.toml b/jormungandr/Cargo.toml
index d1bcf695a4..23b8baa52a 100644
--- a/jormungandr/Cargo.toml
+++ b/jormungandr/Cargo.toml
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ time = { version = "0.3", features = ["macros"] }
 thiserror = "1.0.30"
 tracing = "0.1"
 tracing-futures = "0.2"
-tracing-gelf = { version = "0.6", optional = true }
+tracing-gelf = { version = "0.7", optional = true }
 # TODO unpin this when cross for ARM targets is fixed: https://github.com/cross-rs/cross/pull/591
 tracing-journald = { version = "=0.2.0", optional = true }
 tracing-subscriber = { version = "0.3", features = ["fmt", "json", "time"] }