diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 17913d48f..d918cc660 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -30,7 +30,6 @@ emit_event_on_error = []
 actix-web = { version = "=4.0.0-beta.9", default-features = false }
 tracing = "0.1.19"
 tracing-futures = "0.2.4"
-futures = "0.3.5"
 uuid = { version = "0.8.1", features = ["v4"] }
 opentelemetry_0_13_pkg = { package = "opentelemetry", version = "0.13", optional = true }
 opentelemetry_0_14_pkg = { package = "opentelemetry", version = "0.14", optional = true }
diff --git a/src/middleware.rs b/src/middleware.rs
index ad8953e22..7477320af 100644
--- a/src/middleware.rs
+++ b/src/middleware.rs
@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
 use crate::{DefaultRootSpanBuilder, RequestId, RootSpan, RootSpanBuilder};
 use actix_web::dev::{Service, ServiceRequest, ServiceResponse, Transform};
 use actix_web::{Error, HttpMessage, ResponseError};
-use futures::future::{ok, Ready};
-use std::future::Future;
+use std::future::{ready, Future, Ready};
 use std::pin::Pin;
 use tracing::Span;
 use tracing_futures::Instrument;
@@ -100,10 +99,10 @@ where
     type Future = Ready<Result<Self::Transform, Self::InitError>>;
 
     fn new_transform(&self, service: S) -> Self::Future {
-        ok(TracingLoggerMiddleware {
+        ready(Ok(TracingLoggerMiddleware {
             service,
             root_span_builder: std::marker::PhantomData::default(),
-        })
+        }))
     }
 }
 
@@ -134,7 +133,7 @@ where
         let root_span_wrapper = RootSpan::new(root_span.clone());
         req.extensions_mut().insert(root_span_wrapper);
 
-        let fut = self.service.call(req);
+        let fut = root_span.in_scope(|| self.service.call(req));
         Box::pin(
             async move {
                 let outcome = fut.await;
diff --git a/src/root_span_builder.rs b/src/root_span_builder.rs
index b14919187..58699304b 100644
--- a/src/root_span_builder.rs
+++ b/src/root_span_builder.rs
@@ -56,11 +56,13 @@ impl RootSpanBuilder for DefaultRootSpanBuilder {
 
 fn handle_error(span: Span, error: &actix_web::Error) {
     let response_error = error.as_response_error();
-    span.record(
-        "exception.message",
-        &tracing::field::display(response_error),
-    );
-    span.record("exception.details", &tracing::field::debug(response_error));
+
+    // pre-formatting errors is a workaround for https://github.com/tokio-rs/tracing/issues/1565
+    let display = format!("{}", response_error);
+    let debug = format!("{:?}", response_error);
+    span.record("exception.message", &tracing::field::display(display));
+    span.record("exception.details", &tracing::field::display(debug));
+
     let status_code = response_error.status_code();
     span.record("http.status_code", &status_code.as_u16());