diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 84dc6740c0..74b1b8d30b 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1506,7 +1506,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "tracing-appender 0.1.2",
  "tracing-futures",
  "tracing-gelf 0.5.2",
- "tracing-journald 0.1.0",
+ "tracing-journald",
  "tracing-subscriber 0.2.25",
  "url",
  "warp",
@@ -2395,7 +2395,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "tracing-appender 0.2.0",
  "tracing-futures",
  "tracing-gelf 0.6.0",
- "tracing-journald 0.2.0",
+ "tracing-journald",
  "tracing-subscriber 0.3.7",
  "versionisator",
  "warp",
@@ -5107,20 +5107,11 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "tracing-journald"
-version = "0.1.0"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "8fe1f0ed2b7a5fcb6da2bc9e783587d9a0c8b9535e50224afe04e543eae8a2d6"
-dependencies = [
- "tracing-core",
- "tracing-subscriber 0.2.25",
-]
-
-[[package]]
-name = "tracing-journald"
-version = "0.2.0"
+version = "0.2.4"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "7c35f4a6b4b2d00511aa9e17d4efc74d4c3ddc5a5416f58a5de25c30bfeb0307"
+checksum = "1ba49f4829f4e95702943ec6b2fad8936b369d20fa27036caf01329fb230e460"
 dependencies = [
+ "libc",
  "tracing-core",
  "tracing-subscriber 0.3.7",
 ]
diff --git a/explorer/Cargo.toml b/explorer/Cargo.toml
index 86547c5cdb..a1862c4b7b 100644
--- a/explorer/Cargo.toml
+++ b/explorer/Cargo.toml
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ warp = {version = "0.3.1", features = ["tls"]}
 tracing = "0.1"
 tracing-futures = "0.2"
 tracing-gelf = { version = "0.5", optional = true }
-tracing-journald = { version = "0.1.0", optional = true }
+tracing-journald = { version = "0.2.4", optional = true }
 tracing-subscriber = { version = "0.2", features = ["fmt", "json"] }
 tracing-appender = "0.1.2"
 tokio = { version = "^1.4", features = ["rt-multi-thread", "time", "sync", "rt", "signal", "test-util"] }
diff --git a/jormungandr/Cargo.toml b/jormungandr/Cargo.toml
index 512f38b4bb..fc93b73986 100644
--- a/jormungandr/Cargo.toml
+++ b/jormungandr/Cargo.toml
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ tracing = "0.1"
 tracing-futures = "0.2"
 tracing-gelf = { version = "0.6", optional = true }
 # TODO unpin this when cross for ARM targets is fixed: https://github.com/cross-rs/cross/pull/591
-tracing-journald = { version = "=0.2.0", optional = true }
+tracing-journald = { version = "=0.2.4", optional = true }
 tracing-subscriber = { version = "0.3", features = ["fmt", "json", "time"] }
 tracing-appender = "0.2"
 tokio = { version = "^1.15", features = ["rt-multi-thread", "time", "sync", "rt", "signal", "test-util"] }