diff --git a/pageserver/src/tenant.rs b/pageserver/src/tenant.rs
index 681fd296ae..0543de931f 100644
--- a/pageserver/src/tenant.rs
+++ b/pageserver/src/tenant.rs
@@ -1020,6 +1020,7 @@ impl Tenant {
                 Some(remote_timeline_client),
                 self.deletion_queue_client.clone(),
             )
+            .instrument(tracing::info_span!("timeline_delete", %timeline_id))
             .await
             .context("resume_deletion")
             .map_err(LoadLocalTimelineError::ResumeDeletion)?;
diff --git a/pageserver/src/tenant/delete.rs b/pageserver/src/tenant/delete.rs
index 97de0cdcf9..0dbaa3ec93 100644
--- a/pageserver/src/tenant/delete.rs
+++ b/pageserver/src/tenant/delete.rs
@@ -136,7 +136,11 @@ async fn schedule_ordered_timeline_deletions(
     let mut already_running_deletions = vec![];
 
     for (timeline_id, _) in sorted.into_iter().rev() {
-        if let Err(e) = DeleteTimelineFlow::run(tenant, timeline_id, true).await {
+        let span = tracing::info_span!("timeline_delete", %timeline_id);
+        let res = DeleteTimelineFlow::run(tenant, timeline_id, true)
+            .instrument(span)
+            .await;
+        if let Err(e) = res {
             match e {
                 DeleteTimelineError::NotFound => {
                     // Timeline deletion finished after call to clone above but before call
diff --git a/pageserver/src/tenant/timeline.rs b/pageserver/src/tenant/timeline.rs
index fc908ad299..874603b81b 100644
--- a/pageserver/src/tenant/timeline.rs
+++ b/pageserver/src/tenant/timeline.rs
@@ -2792,12 +2792,12 @@ impl Timeline {
     }
 
     /// Flush one frozen in-memory layer to disk, as a new delta layer.
-    #[instrument(skip_all, fields(tenant_id=%self.tenant_shard_id.tenant_id, shard_id = %self.tenant_shard_id.shard_slug(), timeline_id=%self.timeline_id, layer=%frozen_layer))]
     async fn flush_frozen_layer(
         self: &Arc<Self>,
         frozen_layer: Arc<InMemoryLayer>,
         ctx: &RequestContext,
     ) -> Result<(), FlushLayerError> {
+        span::debug_assert_current_span_has_tenant_and_timeline_id();
         // As a special case, when we have just imported an image into the repository,
         // instead of writing out a L0 delta layer, we directly write out image layer
         // files instead. This is possible as long as *all* the data imported into the
diff --git a/pageserver/src/tenant/timeline/delete.rs b/pageserver/src/tenant/timeline/delete.rs
index be873181d9..88d7ce61dd 100644
--- a/pageserver/src/tenant/timeline/delete.rs
+++ b/pageserver/src/tenant/timeline/delete.rs
@@ -356,12 +356,14 @@ impl DeleteTimelineFlow {
     // NB: If this fails half-way through, and is retried, the retry will go through
     // all the same steps again. Make sure the code here is idempotent, and don't
     // error out if some of the shutdown tasks have already been completed!
-    #[instrument(skip(tenant), fields(tenant_id=%tenant.tenant_shard_id.tenant_id, shard_id=%tenant.tenant_shard_id.shard_slug()))]
+    #[instrument(skip_all, fields(%inplace))]
     pub async fn run(
         tenant: &Arc<Tenant>,
         timeline_id: TimelineId,
         inplace: bool,
     ) -> Result<(), DeleteTimelineError> {
+        super::debug_assert_current_span_has_tenant_and_timeline_id();
+
         let (timeline, mut guard) = Self::prepare(tenant, timeline_id)?;
 
         guard.mark_in_progress()?;