diff --git a/src/matrix/room/timeline/persistence/GapWriter.js b/src/matrix/room/timeline/persistence/GapWriter.js
index ac265f9d..b1091afa 100644
--- a/src/matrix/room/timeline/persistence/GapWriter.js
+++ b/src/matrix/room/timeline/persistence/GapWriter.js
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ export class GapWriter {
         }
     }
 
-    async _storeEvents(events, startKey, direction, state, txn) {
+    async _storeEvents(events, startKey, direction, state, txn, log) {
         const entries = [];
         const updatedEntries = [];
         // events is in reverse chronological order for backwards pagination,
@@ -123,12 +123,12 @@ export class GapWriter {
             txn.timelineEvents.insert(eventStorageEntry);
             const eventEntry = new EventEntry(eventStorageEntry, this._fragmentIdComparer);
             directionalAppend(entries, eventEntry, direction);
-            const updatedRelationTargetEntry = await this._relationWriter.writeRelation(eventEntry);
+            const updatedRelationTargetEntry = await this._relationWriter.writeRelation(eventEntry, txn, log);
             if (updatedRelationTargetEntry) {
                 updatedEntries.push(updatedRelationTargetEntry);
             }
         }
-        return entries;
+        return {entries, updatedEntries};
     }
 
     _findMember(userId, state, events, index, direction) {
@@ -246,7 +246,7 @@ export class GapWriter {
             end = null;
         }
         // create entries for all events in chunk, add them to entries
-        const {entries, updatedEntries} = await this._storeEvents(nonOverlappingEvents, lastKey, direction, state, txn);
+        const {entries, updatedEntries} = await this._storeEvents(nonOverlappingEvents, lastKey, direction, state, txn, log);
         const fragments = await this._updateFragments(fragmentEntry, neighbourFragmentEntry, end, entries, txn);
     
         return {entries, updatedEntries, fragments};
diff --git a/src/matrix/room/timeline/persistence/RelationWriter.js b/src/matrix/room/timeline/persistence/RelationWriter.js
index 67a78bb3..144ea40d 100644
--- a/src/matrix/room/timeline/persistence/RelationWriter.js
+++ b/src/matrix/room/timeline/persistence/RelationWriter.js
@@ -24,11 +24,11 @@ export class RelationWriter {
     }
 
     // this needs to happen again after decryption too for edits
-    async writeRelation(sourceEntry, txn) {
+    async writeRelation(sourceEntry, txn, log) {
         if (sourceEntry.relatedEventId) {
             const target = await txn.timelineEvents.getByEventId(this._roomId, sourceEntry.relatedEventId);
             if (target) {
-                if (this._applyRelation(sourceEntry, target)) {
+                if (this._applyRelation(sourceEntry, target, log)) {
                     txn.timelineEvents.update(target);
                     return new EventEntry(target, this._fragmentIdComparer);
                 }
@@ -37,15 +37,17 @@ export class RelationWriter {
         return;
     }
 
-    _applyRelation(sourceEntry, target) {
+    _applyRelation(sourceEntry, target, log) {
         if (sourceEntry.eventType === REDACTION_TYPE) {
-            return this._applyRedaction(sourceEntry.event, target.event);
+            return log.wrap("redact", log => this._applyRedaction(sourceEntry.event, target.event, log));
         } else {
             return false;
         }
     }
 
-    _applyRedaction(redactionEvent, targetEvent) {
+    _applyRedaction(redactionEvent, targetEvent, log) {
+        log.set("redactionId", redactionEvent.event_id);
+        log.set("id", targetEvent.event_id);
         // TODO: should we make efforts to preserve the decrypted event type?
         // probably ok not to, as we'll show whatever is deleted as "deleted message"
         // reactions are the only thing that comes to mind, but we don't encrypt those (for now)
diff --git a/src/matrix/room/timeline/persistence/SyncWriter.js b/src/matrix/room/timeline/persistence/SyncWriter.js
index 8bf31ed2..671b944a 100644
--- a/src/matrix/room/timeline/persistence/SyncWriter.js
+++ b/src/matrix/room/timeline/persistence/SyncWriter.js
@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ export class SyncWriter {
                 txn.timelineEvents.insert(storageEntry);
                 const entry = new EventEntry(storageEntry, this._fragmentIdComparer);
                 entries.push(entry);
-                const updatedRelationTargetEntry = await this._relationWriter.writeRelation(entry);
+                const updatedRelationTargetEntry = await this._relationWriter.writeRelation(entry, txn, log);
                 if (updatedRelationTargetEntry) {
                     updatedEntries.push(updatedRelationTargetEntry);
                 }
@@ -246,7 +246,7 @@ export class SyncWriter {
         // members are available in the transaction
         await this._writeStateEvents(roomResponse, memberChanges, timeline?.limited, txn, log);
         const {currentKey, entries, updatedEntries} =
-            await this._writeTimeline(entries, updatedEntries, timeline, this._lastLiveKey, memberChanges, txn, log);
+            await this._writeTimeline(timeline, this._lastLiveKey, memberChanges, txn, log);
         log.set("memberChanges", memberChanges.size);
         return {entries, updatedEntries, newLiveKey: currentKey, memberChanges};
     }