diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 00ffa059bb6..f2977e703f8 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -3299,7 +3299,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "tracing",
  "tracing-appender",
  "tracing-opentelemetry",
- "tracing-serde",
  "tracing-subscriber",
 ]
 
@@ -6072,16 +6071,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "tracing-subscriber",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "tracing-serde"
-version = "0.1.3"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "bc6b213177105856957181934e4920de57730fc69bf42c37ee5bb664d406d9e1"
-dependencies = [
- "serde",
- "tracing-core",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "tracing-span-tree"
 version = "0.1.1"
diff --git a/core/o11y/Cargo.toml b/core/o11y/Cargo.toml
index 33c1f4091ae..8bed9a0b693 100644
--- a/core/o11y/Cargo.toml
+++ b/core/o11y/Cargo.toml
@@ -23,7 +23,6 @@ tokio = { version = "1.16", features = ["rt-multi-thread"]}
 tracing = { version = "0.1.36", features = ["std"] }
 tracing-appender = "0.2.2"
 tracing-opentelemetry = { version = "0.17.0" }
-tracing-serde = "0.1.3"
 tracing-subscriber = { version = "0.3.15", features = ["fmt", "env-filter", "registry", "std"] }
 
 [dev-dependencies]