diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 1d9c2384b2..0d47e652cb 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -5131,9 +5131,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "tracing-gelf"
-version = "0.6.1"
+version = "0.7.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "d6d094204165dcfc9cffe7b2c22d98e4a7bc86f1e8a052c83c7c5442ee325bf4"
+checksum = "e42df83d1aeae02b07db7a7758af84970fbe327cc6abc537c13da86899505e68"
 dependencies = [
  "bytes",
  "futures-channel",
@@ -5142,8 +5142,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "serde_json",
  "thiserror",
  "tokio",
- "tokio-util 0.6.10",
- "tracing",
+ "tokio-util 0.7.4",
  "tracing-core",
  "tracing-futures",
  "tracing-subscriber",
diff --git a/explorer/Cargo.toml b/explorer/Cargo.toml
index 2d42bd26c8..9ee6d8d451 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 f31eadb34c..fedf1dd762 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"] }