diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 971ab602a..3c7d28055 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -3023,28 +3023,6 @@ version = "0.4.20"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "b5e6163cb8c49088c2c36f57875e58ccd8c87c7427f7fbd50ea6710b2f3f2e8f"
 
-[[package]]
-name = "logging_timer"
-version = "1.1.0"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "64e96f261d684b7089aa576bb74e823241dccd994b27d30fabf1dcb3af284fe9"
-dependencies = [
- "log",
- "logging_timer_proc_macros",
-]
-
-[[package]]
-name = "logging_timer_proc_macros"
-version = "1.1.0"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "10a9062912d7952c5588cc474795e0b9ee008e7e6781127945b85413d4b99d81"
-dependencies = [
- "log",
- "proc-macro2",
- "quote",
- "syn 1.0.109",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "lz4_flex"
 version = "0.10.0"
@@ -3316,7 +3294,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "json-depth-checker",
  "levenshtein_automata",
  "liquid",
- "logging_timer",
  "maplit",
  "md5",
  "meili-snap",
diff --git a/milli/Cargo.toml b/milli/Cargo.toml
index 7e45168ed..1dfa495ea 100644
--- a/milli/Cargo.toml
+++ b/milli/Cargo.toml
@@ -70,13 +70,13 @@ itertools = "0.11.0"
 # profiling
 puffin = "0.16.0"
 
-# logging
-logging_timer = "1.1.0"
 csv = "1.3.0"
 candle-core = { git = "https://github.com/huggingface/candle.git", version = "0.3.1" }
 candle-transformers = { git = "https://github.com/huggingface/candle.git", version = "0.3.1" }
 candle-nn = { git = "https://github.com/huggingface/candle.git", version = "0.3.1" }
-tokenizers = { git = "https://github.com/huggingface/tokenizers.git", tag = "v0.14.1", version = "0.14.1", default_features = false, features = ["onig"] }
+tokenizers = { git = "https://github.com/huggingface/tokenizers.git", tag = "v0.14.1", version = "0.14.1", default_features = false, features = [
+    "onig",
+] }
 hf-hub = { git = "https://github.com/dureuill/hf-hub.git", branch = "rust_tls", default_features = false, features = [
     "online",
 ] }
diff --git a/milli/src/search/new/bucket_sort.rs b/milli/src/search/new/bucket_sort.rs
index e7bafaf70..02528e378 100644
--- a/milli/src/search/new/bucket_sort.rs
+++ b/milli/src/search/new/bucket_sort.rs
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ pub struct BucketSortOutput {
 
 // TODO: would probably be good to regroup some of these inside of a struct?
 #[allow(clippy::too_many_arguments)]
-#[logging_timer::time]
+#[tracing::instrument(level = "trace", skip_all, target = "search::bucket_sort")]
 pub fn bucket_sort<'ctx, Q: RankingRuleQueryTrait>(
     ctx: &mut SearchContext<'ctx>,
     mut ranking_rules: Vec<BoxRankingRule<'ctx, Q>>,
diff --git a/milli/src/search/new/mod.rs b/milli/src/search/new/mod.rs
index 7b3b1d5b2..ae661e3f6 100644
--- a/milli/src/search/new/mod.rs
+++ b/milli/src/search/new/mod.rs
@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ fn resolve_maximally_reduced_query_graph(
     Ok(docids)
 }
 
-#[logging_timer::time]
+#[tracing::instrument(level = "trace", skip_all, target = "search")]
 fn resolve_universe(
     ctx: &mut SearchContext,
     initial_universe: &RoaringBitmap,
@@ -557,7 +557,7 @@ pub fn execute_vector_search(
 }
 
 #[allow(clippy::too_many_arguments)]
-#[logging_timer::time]
+#[tracing::instrument(level = "trace", skip_all, target = "search")]
 pub fn execute_search(
     ctx: &mut SearchContext,
     query: Option<&str>,
@@ -577,6 +577,9 @@ pub fn execute_search(
 
     let mut located_query_terms = None;
     let query_terms = if let Some(query) = query {
+        let span = tracing::trace_span!(target: "search::tokens", "tokenizer_builder");
+        let entered = span.enter();
+
         // We make sure that the analyzer is aware of the stop words
         // this ensures that the query builder is able to properly remove them.
         let mut tokbuilder = TokenizerBuilder::new();
@@ -605,7 +608,12 @@ pub fn execute_search(
         }
 
         let tokenizer = tokbuilder.build();
+        drop(entered);
+
+        let span = tracing::trace_span!(target: "search::tokens", "tokenize");
+        let entered = span.enter();
         let tokens = tokenizer.tokenize(query);
+        drop(entered);
 
         let query_terms = located_query_terms_from_tokens(ctx, tokens, words_limit)?;
         if query_terms.is_empty() {
diff --git a/milli/src/search/new/query_term/parse_query.rs b/milli/src/search/new/query_term/parse_query.rs
index 8ab93ed3b..ea997a41a 100644
--- a/milli/src/search/new/query_term/parse_query.rs
+++ b/milli/src/search/new/query_term/parse_query.rs
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ use crate::search::new::query_term::{Lazy, Phrase, QueryTerm};
 use crate::{Result, SearchContext, MAX_WORD_LENGTH};
 
 /// Convert the tokenised search query into a list of located query terms.
-#[logging_timer::time]
+#[tracing::instrument(level = "trace", skip_all, target = "search::query")]
 pub fn located_query_terms_from_tokens(
     ctx: &mut SearchContext,
     query: NormalizedTokenIter,