diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 623f38277..1c42c19b2 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -127,6 +127,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "derive_builder",
  "derive_more",
  "directories",
+ "educe",
  "futures",
  "humantime-serde",
  "once_cell",
@@ -137,6 +138,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "thiserror",
  "tokio",
  "tokio-util",
+ "tor-bytes",
  "tor-chanmgr",
  "tor-circmgr",
  "tor-config",
diff --git a/crates/arti-client/Cargo.toml b/crates/arti-client/Cargo.toml
index 3414b8188..d846e014f 100644
--- a/crates/arti-client/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/arti-client/Cargo.toml
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ error_detail = [ ]
 experimental-api = []
 
 [dependencies]
+tor-bytes = { path="../tor-bytes", version = "0.1.0"}
 tor-circmgr = { path="../tor-circmgr", version = "0.1.0"}
 tor-config = { path="../tor-config", version = "0.1.0"}
 tor-chanmgr = { path="../tor-chanmgr", version = "0.1.0"}
@@ -41,6 +42,7 @@ humantime-serde = "1"
 derive_builder = "0.10"
 derive_more = "0.99"
 directories = "4"
+educe = "0.4.6"
 futures = "0.3.14"
 postage = { version = "0.4", default-features = false, features = ["futures-traits"] }
 tracing = "0.1.18"
diff --git a/crates/arti-client/src/status.rs b/crates/arti-client/src/status.rs
index 30480117e..57a868705 100644
--- a/crates/arti-client/src/status.rs
+++ b/crates/arti-client/src/status.rs
@@ -4,7 +4,9 @@
 use std::{borrow::Cow, fmt, time::SystemTime};
 
 use derive_more::Display;
+use educe::Educe;
 use futures::{Stream, StreamExt};
+use tor_bytes::skip_fmt;
 use tor_chanmgr::{ConnBlockage, ConnStatus, ConnStatusEvents};
 use tor_dirmgr::{DirBootstrapEvents, DirBootstrapStatus};
 use tracing::debug;
@@ -189,20 +191,14 @@ pub(crate) async fn report_status(
 // implementation type.  We do that because we might want to change the type in
 // the future, and because some of the functionality exposed by Receiver (like
 // `borrow()` and the postage::Stream trait) are extraneous to the API we want.
-#[derive(Clone)]
+#[derive(Clone, Educe)]
+#[educe(Debug)]
 pub struct BootstrapEvents {
     /// The receiver that implements this stream.
+    #[educe(Debug(method = "skip_fmt"))]
     pub(crate) inner: postage::watch::Receiver<BootstrapStatus>,
 }
 
-// We can't derive(Debug) since postage::watch::Receiver doesn't implement
-// Debug.
-impl std::fmt::Debug for BootstrapEvents {
-    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> fmt::Result {
-        f.debug_struct("BootstrapEvents").finish_non_exhaustive()
-    }
-}
-
 impl Stream for BootstrapEvents {
     type Item = BootstrapStatus;