diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index aa91ce42..6dca9cb0 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1420,6 +1420,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "dora-tracing",
  "eyre",
  "flume",
+ "futures",
  "once_cell",
  "serde",
  "serde_json",
diff --git a/apis/rust/node/Cargo.toml b/apis/rust/node/Cargo.toml
index fc83aea2..c242d44c 100644
--- a/apis/rust/node/Cargo.toml
+++ b/apis/rust/node/Cargo.toml
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ bincode = "1.3.3"
 shared_memory = "0.12.0"
 dora-tracing = { workspace = true, optional = true }
 arrow = "35.0.0"
+futures = "0.3.28"
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 tokio = { version = "1.24.2", features = ["rt"] }
diff --git a/apis/rust/node/src/event_stream/mod.rs b/apis/rust/node/src/event_stream/mod.rs
index 7c247d1d..104722f8 100644
--- a/apis/rust/node/src/event_stream/mod.rs
+++ b/apis/rust/node/src/event_stream/mod.rs
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 use std::sync::Arc;
 
 pub use event::{Data, Event, MappedInputData};
+use futures::{Stream, StreamExt};
 
 use self::thread::{EventItem, EventStreamThreadHandle};
 use crate::daemon_connection::DaemonChannel;
@@ -18,7 +19,7 @@ mod thread;
 
 pub struct EventStream {
     node_id: NodeId,
-    receiver: flume::Receiver<EventItem>,
+    receiver: flume::r#async::RecvStream<'static, EventItem>,
     _thread_handle: EventStreamThreadHandle,
     close_channel: DaemonChannel,
     clock: Arc<uhlc::HLC>,
@@ -90,7 +91,7 @@ impl EventStream {
 
         Ok(EventStream {
             node_id: node_id.clone(),
-            receiver: rx,
+            receiver: rx.into_stream(),
             _thread_handle: thread_handle,
             close_channel,
             clock,
@@ -99,25 +100,15 @@ impl EventStream {
 
     /// wait for the next event on the events stream.
     pub fn recv(&mut self) -> Option<Event> {
-        let event = self.receiver.recv();
-        self.recv_common(event)
+        futures::executor::block_on(self.recv_async())
     }
 
     pub async fn recv_async(&mut self) -> Option<Event> {
-        let event = self.receiver.recv_async().await;
-        self.recv_common(event)
+        self.receiver.next().await.map(Self::convert_event_item)
     }
 
-    #[tracing::instrument(skip(self), fields(%self.node_id))]
-    fn recv_common(&mut self, event: Result<EventItem, flume::RecvError>) -> Option<Event> {
-        let event = match event {
-            Ok(event) => event,
-            Err(flume::RecvError::Disconnected) => {
-                tracing::trace!("event channel disconnected");
-                return None;
-            }
-        };
-        let event = match event {
+    fn convert_event_item(item: EventItem) -> Event {
+        match item {
             EventItem::NodeEvent { event, ack_channel } => match event {
                 NodeEvent::Stop => Event::Stop,
                 NodeEvent::Reload { operator_id } => Event::Reload { operator_id },
@@ -156,9 +147,20 @@ impl EventStream {
             EventItem::FatalError(err) => {
                 Event::Error(format!("fatal event stream error: {err:?}"))
             }
-        };
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+impl Stream for EventStream {
+    type Item = Event;
 
-        Some(event)
+    fn poll_next(
+        mut self: std::pin::Pin<&mut Self>,
+        cx: &mut std::task::Context<'_>,
+    ) -> std::task::Poll<Option<Self::Item>> {
+        self.receiver
+            .poll_next_unpin(cx)
+            .map(|item| item.map(Self::convert_event_item))
     }
 }