diff --git a/crates/Cargo.toml b/crates/Cargo.toml
index 6085357ca5..ad1f3a32f0 100644
--- a/crates/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/Cargo.toml
@@ -18,3 +18,4 @@ panic = "abort"
 tonic = { git = "https://github.com/hyperium/tonic" }
 tonic-web = { git = "https://github.com/hyperium/tonic", branch = "lucio/grpc-web-client" }
 tonic-build = { git = "https://github.com/hyperium/tonic" }
+tower-http = { git = "https://github.com/tower-rs/tower-http", branch = "lucio/grpc-defaults" }
diff --git a/crates/replication/Cargo.toml b/crates/replication/Cargo.toml
index d886b1cc40..2c093d2358 100644
--- a/crates/replication/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/replication/Cargo.toml
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ serde_json = "1.0.103"
 serde = { version = "1.0.173", features = ["serde_derive"] }
 tonic = { version = "0.9", features = ["tls", "tls-roots", "tls-webpki-roots"] }
 tonic-web = "0.9" 
+tower-http = { version = "0.4", features = ["trace", "util"] }
 prost = "0.11"
 hyper = "0.14"
 hyper-rustls = { version = "0.24", features = ["webpki-roots"] }
diff --git a/crates/replication/src/client.rs b/crates/replication/src/client.rs
index b1a269c0e4..60dc28414a 100644
--- a/crates/replication/src/client.rs
+++ b/crates/replication/src/client.rs
@@ -3,19 +3,27 @@ use std::{
     task::{Context, Poll},
 };
 
-use hyper::{client::HttpConnector, Client};
-use hyper_rustls::{HttpsConnector, HttpsConnectorBuilder};
+use hyper::Client;
+use hyper_rustls::HttpsConnectorBuilder;
 use tonic::body::BoxBody;
 use tonic_web::{GrpcWebCall, GrpcWebClientService};
-use tower::Service;
+use tower::{util::BoxCloneService, Service, ServiceBuilder};
+use tower_http::{classify, trace, ServiceBuilderExt};
+
+type ResponseBody = trace::ResponseBody<
+    GrpcWebCall<hyper::Body>,
+    classify::GrpcEosErrorsAsFailures,
+    trace::DefaultOnBodyChunk,
+    trace::DefaultOnEos,
+    trace::DefaultOnFailure,
+>;
 
 #[derive(Debug, Clone)]
-pub struct H2cChannel {
-    client: GrpcWebClientService<Client<HttpsConnector<HttpConnector>, GrpcWebCall<BoxBody>>>,
+pub struct GrpcChannel {
+    client: BoxCloneService<http::Request<BoxBody>, http::Response<ResponseBody>, hyper::Error>,
 }
 
-impl H2cChannel {
-    #[allow(unused)]
+impl GrpcChannel {
     pub fn new() -> Self {
         let https = HttpsConnectorBuilder::new()
             .with_webpki_roots()
@@ -26,12 +34,16 @@ impl H2cChannel {
         let client = Client::builder().build(https);
         let client = GrpcWebClientService::new(client);
 
+        let svc = ServiceBuilder::new().trace_for_grpc().service(client);
+
+        let client = BoxCloneService::new(svc);
+
         Self { client }
     }
 }
 
-impl Service<http::Request<BoxBody>> for H2cChannel {
-    type Response = http::Response<GrpcWebCall<hyper::Body>>;
+impl Service<http::Request<BoxBody>> for GrpcChannel {
+    type Response = http::Response<ResponseBody>;
     type Error = hyper::Error;
     type Future =
         Pin<Box<dyn std::future::Future<Output = Result<Self::Response, Self::Error>> + Send>>;
diff --git a/crates/replication/src/lib.rs b/crates/replication/src/lib.rs
index a12fa9b564..7df5b0920e 100644
--- a/crates/replication/src/lib.rs
+++ b/crates/replication/src/lib.rs
@@ -31,10 +31,10 @@ use std::sync::atomic::{AtomicU64, Ordering};
 use std::sync::Arc;
 use tokio::sync::mpsc::Sender;
 
-use crate::client::H2cChannel;
+use crate::client::GrpcChannel;
 use crate::pb::HelloRequest;
 
-type RpcClient = pb::ReplicationLogClient<InterceptedService<H2cChannel, AuthInterceptor>>;
+type RpcClient = pb::ReplicationLogClient<InterceptedService<GrpcChannel, AuthInterceptor>>;
 
 pub struct Replicator {
     pub frames_sender: Sender<Frames>,
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ impl Replicator {
         //.tls_config(tonic::transport::ClientTlsConfig::new())?
         //.connect_lazy();
 
-        let channel = H2cChannel::new();
+        let channel = GrpcChannel::new();
 
         let mut client = pb::ReplicationLogClient::with_origin(
             InterceptedService::new(channel, AuthInterceptor(auth_token)),