diff --git a/pageserver/src/page_service.rs b/pageserver/src/page_service.rs
index c07c940b9d..691330611d 100644
--- a/pageserver/src/page_service.rs
+++ b/pageserver/src/page_service.rs
@@ -2487,7 +2487,7 @@ impl PageServerHandler {
         ctx: &RequestContext,
     ) -> Vec<Result<(PagestreamBeMessage, SmgrOpTimer, RequestContext), BatchedPageStreamError>>
     {
-        debug_assert_current_span_has_tenant_and_timeline_id();
+        //debug_assert_current_span_has_tenant_and_timeline_id();
 
         timeline
             .query_metrics
diff --git a/pageserver/src/pgdatadir_mapping.rs b/pageserver/src/pgdatadir_mapping.rs
index c6f3929257..09cd67c12d 100644
--- a/pageserver/src/pgdatadir_mapping.rs
+++ b/pageserver/src/pgdatadir_mapping.rs
@@ -274,7 +274,7 @@ impl Timeline {
         io_concurrency: IoConcurrency,
         ctx: &RequestContext,
     ) -> Vec<Result<Bytes, PageReconstructError>> {
-        debug_assert_current_span_has_tenant_and_timeline_id();
+        //debug_assert_current_span_has_tenant_and_timeline_id();
 
         let mut slots_filled = 0;
         let page_count = pages.len();