diff --git a/pageserver/src/tenant/disk_btree.rs b/pageserver/src/tenant/disk_btree.rs
index ca30b0ac4f..6d85d1e60e 100644
--- a/pageserver/src/tenant/disk_btree.rs
+++ b/pageserver/src/tenant/disk_btree.rs
@@ -18,10 +18,19 @@
 //! - An Iterator interface would be more convenient for the callers than the
 //!   'visit' function
 //!
+use async_stream::try_stream;
 use byteorder::{ReadBytesExt, BE};
 use bytes::{BufMut, Bytes, BytesMut};
 use either::Either;
-use std::{cmp::Ordering, io, result};
+use futures::Stream;
+use hex;
+use std::{
+    cmp::Ordering,
+    io,
+    iter::Rev,
+    ops::{Range, RangeInclusive},
+    result,
+};
 use thiserror::Error;
 use tracing::error;
 
@@ -250,6 +259,90 @@ where
         Ok(result)
     }
 
+    /// Return a stream which yields all key, value pairs from the index
+    /// starting from the first key greater or equal to `start_key`.
+    ///
+    /// Note that this is a copy of [`Self::visit`].
+    /// TODO: Once the sequential read path is removed this will become
+    /// the only index traversal method.
+    pub fn get_stream_from<'a>(
+        &'a self,
+        start_key: &'a [u8; L],
+        ctx: &'a RequestContext,
+    ) -> impl Stream<Item = std::result::Result<(Vec<u8>, u64), DiskBtreeError>> + 'a {
+        try_stream! {
+            let mut stack = Vec::new();
+            stack.push((self.root_blk, None));
+            let block_cursor = self.reader.block_cursor();
+            while let Some((node_blknum, opt_iter)) = stack.pop() {
+                // Locate the node.
+                let node_buf = block_cursor
+                    .read_blk(self.start_blk + node_blknum, ctx)
+                    .await?;
+
+                let node = OnDiskNode::deparse(node_buf.as_ref())?;
+                let prefix_len = node.prefix_len as usize;
+                let suffix_len = node.suffix_len as usize;
+
+                assert!(node.num_children > 0);
+
+                let mut keybuf = Vec::new();
+                keybuf.extend(node.prefix);
+                keybuf.resize(prefix_len + suffix_len, 0);
+
+                let mut iter: Either<Range<usize>, Rev<RangeInclusive<usize>>> = if let Some(iter) = opt_iter {
+                    iter
+                } else {
+                    // Locate the first match
+                    let idx = match node.binary_search(start_key, keybuf.as_mut_slice()) {
+                        Ok(idx) => idx,
+                        Err(idx) => {
+                            if node.level == 0 {
+                                // Imagine that the node contains the following keys:
+                                //
+                                // 1
+                                // 3  <-- idx
+                                // 5
+                                //
+                                // If the search key is '2' and there is exact match,
+                                // the binary search would return the index of key
+                                // '3'. That's cool, '3' is the first key to return.
+                                idx
+                            } else {
+                                // This is an internal page, so each key represents a lower
+                                // bound for what's in the child page. If there is no exact
+                                // match, we have to return the *previous* entry.
+                                //
+                                // 1  <-- return this
+                                // 3  <-- idx
+                                // 5
+                                idx.saturating_sub(1)
+                            }
+                        }
+                    };
+                    Either::Left(idx..node.num_children.into())
+                };
+
+                // idx points to the first match now. Keep going from there
+                while let Some(idx) = iter.next() {
+                    let key_off = idx * suffix_len;
+                    let suffix = &node.keys[key_off..key_off + suffix_len];
+                    keybuf[prefix_len..].copy_from_slice(suffix);
+                    let value = node.value(idx);
+                    #[allow(clippy::collapsible_if)]
+                    if node.level == 0 {
+                        // leaf
+                        yield (keybuf.clone(), value.to_u64());
+                    } else {
+                        stack.push((node_blknum, Some(iter)));
+                        stack.push((value.to_blknum(), None));
+                        break;
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
     ///
     /// Scan the tree, starting from 'search_key', in the given direction. 'visitor'
     /// will be called for every key >= 'search_key' (or <= 'search_key', if scanning