diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 42de3dc..8c303b3 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -2443,9 +2443,9 @@ checksum = "b6bc1c9ce2b5135ac7f93c72918fc37feb872bdc6a5533a8b85eb4b86bfdae52"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "tracing"
-version = "0.1.39"
+version = "0.1.40"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "ee2ef2af84856a50c1d430afce2fdded0a4ec7eda868db86409b4543df0797f9"
+checksum = "c3523ab5a71916ccf420eebdf5521fcef02141234bbc0b8a49f2fdc4544364ef"
 dependencies = [
  "log",
  "pin-project-lite",
diff --git a/backend/rvoc-backend/Cargo.toml b/backend/rvoc-backend/Cargo.toml
index 1819422..6d70ec6 100644
--- a/backend/rvoc-backend/Cargo.toml
+++ b/backend/rvoc-backend/Cargo.toml
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ async-trait = "0.1.74"
 clap = { version = "4.3.19", features = ["derive"] }
 
 # logging and telemetry
-tracing = "0.1.37"
+tracing = "0.1.40"
 tracing-subscriber = { version = "0.3.17", features = ["fmt", "json"] }
 tracing-opentelemetry = { version = "0.21.0" }
 opentelemetry = { version = "0.20.0", features = ["rt-tokio-current-thread"] }