diff --git a/crates/ingress-kafka/src/consumer_task.rs b/crates/ingress-kafka/src/consumer_task.rs
index 0680893c0..2f953e9b2 100644
--- a/crates/ingress-kafka/src/consumer_task.rs
+++ b/crates/ingress-kafka/src/consumer_task.rs
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 // by the Apache License, Version 2.0.
 
 use std::collections::HashMap;
-use std::fmt::{self, Display};
+use std::fmt;
 use std::sync::{Arc, OnceLock, Weak};
 
 use base64::Engine;
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ use tracing_opentelemetry::OpenTelemetrySpanExt;
 
 use crate::dispatcher::{DispatchKafkaEvent, KafkaIngressDispatcher, KafkaIngressEvent};
 use crate::metric_definitions::KAFKA_INGRESS_REQUESTS;
-use restate_core::{TaskCenter, TaskHandle, TaskKind};
+use restate_core::{task_center, TaskCenter, TaskHandle, TaskKind};
 use restate_types::invocation::{Header, SpanRelation};
 use restate_types::message::MessageIndex;
 use restate_types::schema::subscriptions::{
@@ -245,7 +245,7 @@ impl ConsumerTask {
         let (failures_tx, failures_rx) = mpsc::unbounded_channel();
 
         let rebalance_context = RebalanceContext {
-            task_center: self.task_center.clone(),
+            task_center_handle: TaskCenter::current(),
             consumer: OnceLock::new(),
             topic_partition_tasks: parking_lot::Mutex::new(HashMap::new()),
             failures_tx,
@@ -311,14 +311,14 @@ impl<'a> From<TopicPartitionListElem<'a>> for TopicPartition {
     }
 }
 
-impl Display for TopicPartition {
+impl fmt::Display for TopicPartition {
     fn fmt(&self, f: &mut fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> fmt::Result {
         write!(f, "{}/{}", self.0, self.1)
     }
 }
 
 struct RebalanceContext {
-    task_center: TaskCenter,
+    task_center_handle: task_center::Handle,
     consumer: OnceLock<Weak<MessageConsumer>>,
     topic_partition_tasks: parking_lot::Mutex<HashMap<TopicPartition, AbortOnDrop>>,
     failures_tx: mpsc::UnboundedSender<Error>,
@@ -375,10 +375,9 @@ impl ConsumerContext for RebalanceContext {
                                 self.failures_tx.clone(),
                             );
 
-                            if let Ok(task_handle) = self.task_center.spawn_unmanaged(
+                            if let Ok(task_handle) = self.task_center_handle.spawn_unmanaged(
                                 TaskKind::Ingress,
                                 "kafka-partition-ingest",
-                                None,
                                 task,
                             ) {
                                 topic_partition_tasks.insert(partition, AbortOnDrop(task_handle));
@@ -431,7 +430,7 @@ impl Drop for AbortOnDrop {
 
 async fn topic_partition_queue_consumption_loop(
     sender: MessageSender,
-    partition: TopicPartition,
+    topic_partition: TopicPartition,
     topic_partition_consumer: StreamPartitionQueue<impl ConsumerContext>,
     consumer: Arc<MessageConsumer>,
     consumer_group_id: String,
@@ -440,7 +439,9 @@ async fn topic_partition_queue_consumption_loop(
     debug!(
         restate.subscription.id = %sender.subscription.id(),
         messaging.consumer.group.name = consumer_group_id,
-        "Starting topic '{topic}' partition '{partition}' consumption loop from offset '{offset}'"
+        "Starting topic '{}' partition '{}' consumption loop",
+        topic_partition.0,
+        topic_partition.1
     );
     // this future will be aborted when the partition is no longer needed, so any exit is a failure
     let err = loop {
@@ -453,7 +454,7 @@ async fn topic_partition_queue_consumption_loop(
         if let Err(err) = sender.send(&consumer_group_id, msg).await {
             break err;
         }
-        if let Err(err) = consumer.store_offset(&partition.0, partition.1, offset) {
+        if let Err(err) = consumer.store_offset(&topic_partition.0, topic_partition.1, offset) {
             break err.into();
         }
     };