diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 2cba7b0cb..16322492d 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ coverage:
     LLVM_PROFILE_FILE: "arti-%p-%m.profraw"
   script:
     - apt-get update && apt-get install -y python3-pip python3-setuptools
-    - pip3 install beautifulsoup4
+    - pip3 install beautifulsoup4 lxml
     - rustup toolchain add nightly
     - rustup default nightly
     - rustup component add llvm-tools-preview
diff --git a/maint/postprocess_coverage_cobertura.py b/maint/postprocess_coverage_cobertura.py
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..ffcfc5464
--- /dev/null
+++ b/maint/postprocess_coverage_cobertura.py
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+#!/usr/bin/python
+#
+# Use BeautifulSoup to deduplicate functions in a grov XML (cobertura)
+# output file.
+
+import sys
+
+try:
+    from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
+    import lxml
+except ImportError:
+    print("Sorry, BeautifulSoup 4 or lxml is not installed.", file=sys.stderr)
+    sys.exit(1)
+
+if len(sys.argv) != 2:
+    print(f"Usage: {sys.argv[0]} <cobertura_file>")
+    print("    Post-process a grcov cobertura.xml file")
+    sys.exit(1)
+
+# Parse the coverage file
+with open(sys.argv[1]) as f:
+    document = BeautifulSoup(f, "lxml")
+
+# Iterate over source files
+for file in document.coverage.packages.findAll("package"):
+    already_seen = set()
+    # Iterate over function
+    for func in file.classes.findChild("class").methods.findAll("method"):
+        name = func["name"]
+        if name in already_seen:
+            # Remove duplicate function
+            func.extract()
+        else:
+            already_seen.add(name)
+
+with open(sys.argv[1], 'w') as out:
+    out.write(document.prettify())
diff --git a/maint/postprocess_coverage.py b/maint/postprocess_coverage_html.py
similarity index 100%
rename from maint/postprocess_coverage.py
rename to maint/postprocess_coverage_html.py
diff --git a/maint/with_coverage.sh b/maint/with_coverage.sh
index 4664fab7a..0ff81aade 100755
--- a/maint/with_coverage.sh
+++ b/maint/with_coverage.sh
@@ -137,7 +137,11 @@ grcov "$COVERAGE_BASEDIR/coverage_meta" \
 	--ignore="crates/arti-bench/*" \
 	--ignore="*/github.com-1ecc6299db9ec823/*"
 
-if [ "$format" != html ]; then
+if [ "$format" == cobertura ]; then
+	python3 "$COVERAGE_BASEDIR/maint/postprocess_coverage_cobertura.py" "$COVERAGE_BASEDIR/$output"
+	echo "Full report: $COVERAGE_BASEDIR/$output"
+	exit
+elif [ "$format" != html ]; then
 	# no html post processing when outputing non html result
 	echo "Full report: $COVERAGE_BASEDIR/$output"
 	exit
@@ -149,7 +153,7 @@ if [ "$(which python3 2>/dev/null)" = "" ]; then
     echo "python3 not installed; not post-processing the index file."
 else
     echo "Postprocessing..."
-    python3 "$COVERAGE_BASEDIR/maint/postprocess_coverage.py" "$COVERAGE_BASEDIR/coverage_meta/commands" "$COVERAGE_BASEDIR/$output/index.html" "$COVERAGE_BASEDIR/$output/index.html"
+    python3 "$COVERAGE_BASEDIR/maint/postprocess_coverage_html.py" "$COVERAGE_BASEDIR/coverage_meta/commands" "$COVERAGE_BASEDIR/$output/index.html" "$COVERAGE_BASEDIR/$output/index.html"
 fi
 
 echo "Full report: $COVERAGE_BASEDIR/$output/index.html"