diff --git a/pageserver/src/walreceiver.rs b/pageserver/src/walreceiver.rs
index b6bf117a14..4421bb6752 100644
--- a/pageserver/src/walreceiver.rs
+++ b/pageserver/src/walreceiver.rs
@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ fn walreceiver_main(
     // This is from tokio-postgres docs, but it is a bit weird in our case because we extensively use block_on
     runtime.spawn(async move {
         if let Err(e) = connection.await {
-            eprintln!("connection error: {}", e);
+            error!("connection error: {}", e);
         }
     });
 
diff --git a/walkeeper/src/callmemaybe.rs b/walkeeper/src/callmemaybe.rs
index 49712a6bf3..1e52ec927b 100644
--- a/walkeeper/src/callmemaybe.rs
+++ b/walkeeper/src/callmemaybe.rs
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ async fn request_callback(
 
     tokio::spawn(async move {
         if let Err(e) = connection.await {
-            eprintln!("connection error: {}", e);
+            error!("connection error: {}", e);
         }
     });