diff --git a/iox_gitops_adapter/Cargo.toml b/iox_gitops_adapter/Cargo.toml
index 91d13dc0e4..31bdbec293 100644
--- a/iox_gitops_adapter/Cargo.toml
+++ b/iox_gitops_adapter/Cargo.toml
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ serde_json = "1.0"
 thiserror = "1.0"
 tokio = { version = "1.17", features = ["rt-multi-thread", "macros", "parking_lot"] }
 tonic = "0.6"
-tracing = { version = "0.1", features = ["release_max_level_debug"] }
+tracing = { version = "0.1" }
 workspace-hack = { path = "../workspace-hack"}
 trogging = { path = "../trogging", default-features = false, features = ["clap"] }
 
diff --git a/observability_deps/Cargo.toml b/observability_deps/Cargo.toml
index da33587d39..a5703f2342 100644
--- a/observability_deps/Cargo.toml
+++ b/observability_deps/Cargo.toml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ edition = "2021"
 description = "Observability ecosystem dependencies for InfluxDB IOx, to ensure consistent versions and unified updates"
 
 [dependencies] # In alphabetical order
-tracing = { version = "0.1", features = ["max_level_trace", "release_max_level_debug"] }
+tracing = { version = "0.1", features = ["max_level_trace"] }
 workspace-hack = { path = "../workspace-hack"}
 
 [features]
diff --git a/workspace-hack/Cargo.toml b/workspace-hack/Cargo.toml
index 8366ae6812..86d6940d92 100644
--- a/workspace-hack/Cargo.toml
+++ b/workspace-hack/Cargo.toml
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ tokio-stream = { version = "0.1", features = ["fs", "net", "time"] }
 tokio-util = { version = "0.7", features = ["codec", "io", "slab", "time", "tracing"] }
 tower = { version = "0.4", features = ["__common", "balance", "buffer", "discover", "filter", "futures-core", "futures-util", "indexmap", "limit", "load", "log", "make", "pin-project", "pin-project-lite", "rand", "ready-cache", "slab", "timeout", "tokio", "tokio-util", "tracing", "util"] }
 tower-http = { version = "0.2", features = ["auth", "base64", "map-response-body", "tower", "trace", "tracing", "util"] }
-tracing = { version = "0.1", features = ["attributes", "log", "max_level_trace", "release_max_level_debug", "release_max_level_trace", "std", "tracing-attributes"] }
+tracing = { version = "0.1", features = ["attributes", "log", "max_level_trace", "release_max_level_trace", "std", "tracing-attributes"] }
 tracing-core = { version = "0.1", features = ["lazy_static", "std"] }
 tracing-log = { version = "0.1", features = ["log-tracer", "std", "trace-logger"] }
 tracing-subscriber = { version = "0.3", features = ["alloc", "ansi", "ansi_term", "env-filter", "fmt", "json", "lazy_static", "matchers", "parking_lot", "regex", "registry", "serde", "serde_json", "sharded-slab", "smallvec", "std", "thread_local", "tracing", "tracing-log", "tracing-serde"] }