diff --git a/crates/peryx-storage/tests/unit/tests/meta/webhook_tests.rs b/crates/peryx-storage/tests/unit/tests/meta/webhook_tests.rs
index a2e857b8c..2b77c81fd 100644
--- a/crates/peryx-storage/tests/unit/tests/meta/webhook_tests.rs
+++ b/crates/peryx-storage/tests/unit/tests/meta/webhook_tests.rs
@@ -1,12 +1,82 @@
+use std::cell::RefCell;
 use std::collections::HashSet;
-use std::io::{Read as _, Seek as _};
-use std::sync::Mutex;
+use std::sync::{Arc, Mutex, OnceLock};
 
 use rstest::rstest;
 
 use super::store;
 use crate::meta::{MetaStore, NewWebhookDelivery, WebhookDeliveryAttempt, WebhookDeliveryStatus, WebhookEventIntent};
 
+thread_local! {
+    /// Where this thread's events go while it holds a [`Captured`], and nowhere otherwise.
+    static CAPTURE: RefCell<Option<Arc<Mutex<Vec<u8>>>>> = const { RefCell::new(None) };
+}
+
+/// A writer that hands each event to the capture belonging to the thread that raised it, so one
+/// subscriber serves every test at once.
+struct ThreadCapture;
+
+impl std::io::Write for ThreadCapture {
+    fn write(&mut self, buf: &[u8]) -> std::io::Result<usize> {
+        CAPTURE.with_borrow(|sink| {
+            if let Some(sink) = sink {
+                sink.lock().unwrap().extend_from_slice(buf);
+            }
+        });
+        Ok(buf.len())
+    }
+
+    fn flush(&mut self) -> std::io::Result<()> {
+        Ok(())
+    }
+}
+
+impl tracing_subscriber::fmt::MakeWriter<'_> for ThreadCapture {
+    type Writer = Self;
+
+    fn make_writer(&self) -> Self {
+        Self
+    }
+}
+
+/// The events this thread raises, until it drops.
+///
+/// The subscriber is installed once for the whole binary rather than per test, because a callsite
+/// decides its interest the first time any thread executes it and every thread reads that decision
+/// afterwards. A per-test subscriber leaves that decision to whichever thread arrives first: one
+/// holding no subscriber at all resolves the callsite against nothing, caches `never`, and silences
+/// the callsite for the tests that are asserting on it. A subscriber that outlives every test cannot
+/// be the one missing when that question is asked.
+struct Captured(Arc<Mutex<Vec<u8>>>);
+
+impl Captured {
+    fn install() -> Self {
+        static SUBSCRIBER: OnceLock<()> = OnceLock::new();
+        SUBSCRIBER.get_or_init(|| {
+            let subscriber = tracing_subscriber::fmt()
+                .with_ansi(false)
+                .without_time()
+                .with_writer(ThreadCapture)
+                .finish();
+            tracing::subscriber::set_global_default(subscriber)
+                .expect("the test binary installs one global subscriber");
+        });
+        let sink = Arc::new(Mutex::new(Vec::new()));
+        CAPTURE.with_borrow_mut(|slot| *slot = Some(Arc::clone(&sink)));
+        Self(sink)
+    }
+
+    fn output(&self) -> String {
+        String::from_utf8(self.0.lock().unwrap().clone()).expect("the fmt subscriber writes utf-8")
+    }
+}
+
+impl Drop for Captured {
+    fn drop(&mut self) {
+        CAPTURE.with_borrow_mut(|slot| *slot = None);
+    }
+}
+
 fn none() -> HashSet<(String, String)> {
     HashSet::new()
 }
@@ -346,31 +416,22 @@ fn test_webhook_queue_scan_skips_and_cleans_damaged_rows(#[case] damage: QueueDa
 
     let store = MetaStore::open_existing(&path).unwrap();
     assert_eq!(store.next_webhook_delivery_at().unwrap(), Some(20));
-    let mut capture = tempfile::tempfile().unwrap();
-    let subscriber = tracing_subscriber::fmt()
-        .with_ansi(false)
-        .without_time()
-        .with_writer(Mutex::new(capture.try_clone().unwrap()))
-        .finish();
-    tracing::subscriber::with_default(subscriber, || {
-        for _ in 0..2 {
-            assert_eq!(
-                store
-                    .list_due_webhook_deliveries(100, 10, &none())
-                    .unwrap()
-                    .into_iter()
-                    .map(|record| record.id)
-                    .collect::<Vec<_>>(),
-                std::slice::from_ref(&healthy)
-            );
-        }
-    });
+    let captured = Captured::install();
+    for _ in 0..2 {
+        assert_eq!(
+            store
+                .list_due_webhook_deliveries(100, 10, &none())
+                .unwrap()
+                .into_iter()
+                .map(|record| record.id)
+                .collect::<Vec<_>>(),
+            std::slice::from_ref(&healthy)
+        );
+    }
     if matches!(damage, QueueDamage::InvalidJson) {
         assert_eq!(store.get_webhook_delivery(damaged.as_deref().unwrap()).unwrap(), None);
     }
-    capture.rewind().unwrap();
-    let mut output = String::new();
-    capture.read_to_string(&mut output).unwrap();
+    let output = captured.output();
     assert_eq!(output.matches("discarding damaged webhook queue rows").count(), 1);
     assert!(output.contains(&format!("{count}=1")), "{output}");
     assert!(!output.contains("unbounded-corrupt-identifier"));
@@ -457,3 +518,26 @@ fn test_list_due_separates_same_target_name_across_indexes() {
     let ids: Vec<&str> = due.iter().map(|record| record.id.as_str()).collect();
     assert_eq!(ids, [first.as_str(), second.as_str()]);
 }
+
+/// The interleaving that silenced this file's captures: a thread holding no subscriber is the first to
+/// execute a callsite, which is when its interest is decided for every thread that follows. A capture
+/// that only exists for the length of one test is absent at that moment; the binary's subscriber is
+/// not, so the event still reaches the thread asserting on it.
+#[test]
+fn test_a_capture_survives_a_neighbour_reaching_the_callsite_first() {
+    let captured = Captured::install();
+    std::thread::spawn(unsubscribed_first_event).join().unwrap();
+    unsubscribed_first_event();
+
+    assert!(
+        captured.output().contains("callsite registered by a bare thread"),
+        "a thread with no subscriber decided this callsite for everyone: {:?}",
+        captured.output()
+    );
+}
+
+/// A callsite of its own, so the test asserts on a first execution rather than on one some earlier test
+/// already resolved.
+fn unsubscribed_first_event() {
+    tracing::warn!(target: "peryx::webhook", "callsite registered by a bare thread");
+}