diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index a36a96a9d3..2418c0a609 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -2565,9 +2565,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "tracing-subscriber"
-version = "0.2.0-alpha.6"
+version = "0.2.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "8178ab65c2ae72cd431fcdb51e7317fb0b48d64599e66d52c7b64cd86ee5b482"
+checksum = "c6bbfcf5ab0799649189b0df4bd7f730f1929a3846d33ae56cb0ad6e0bbdad09"
 dependencies = [
  "ansi_term",
  "chrono",
diff --git a/linkerd/app/core/Cargo.toml b/linkerd/app/core/Cargo.toml
index 44228ecf3e..bb6c0a443d 100644
--- a/linkerd/app/core/Cargo.toml
+++ b/linkerd/app/core/Cargo.toml
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ tracing-futures = "0.1"
 tracing-log = "0.1"
 
 [dependencies.tracing-subscriber]
-version = "0.2.0-alpha.6"
+version = "0.2.1"
 # we don't need `chrono` time formatting
 default-features = false
 features = ["env-filter", "fmt", "smallvec", "tracing-log", "ansi"]
diff --git a/linkerd/proxy/transport/Cargo.toml b/linkerd/proxy/transport/Cargo.toml
index 7b9e558436..757813f50a 100644
--- a/linkerd/proxy/transport/Cargo.toml
+++ b/linkerd/proxy/transport/Cargo.toml
@@ -36,4 +36,4 @@ libc = "0.2"
 [dev-dependencies]
 linkerd2-identity = { path = "../../identity", features = ["test-util"] }
 tower-util = "0.1"
-tracing-subscriber = "0.2.0-alpha.6"
+tracing-subscriber = "0.2.1"