diff --git a/test/core/end2end/fuzzers/api_fuzzer.c b/test/core/end2end/fuzzers/api_fuzzer.c
index 281a1af20c3..01fa4f748f5 100644
--- a/test/core/end2end/fuzzers/api_fuzzer.c
+++ b/test/core/end2end/fuzzers/api_fuzzer.c
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@
 #include "src/core/lib/iomgr/timer.h"
 #include "src/core/lib/iomgr/timer_manager.h"
 #include "src/core/lib/slice/slice_internal.h"
+#include "src/core/lib/support/env.h"
 #include "src/core/lib/surface/server.h"
 #include "src/core/lib/transport/metadata.h"
 #include "test/core/end2end/data/ssl_test_data.h"
@@ -731,7 +732,9 @@ static validator *make_finished_batch_validator(call_state *cs,
 
 int LLVMFuzzerTestOneInput(const uint8_t *data, size_t size) {
   grpc_test_only_set_slice_hash_seed(0);
-  if (squelch) gpr_set_log_function(dont_log);
+  char *grpc_trace_fuzzer = gpr_getenv("GRPC_TRACE_FUZZER");
+  if (squelch && grpc_trace_fuzzer == NULL) gpr_set_log_function(dont_log);
+  gpr_free(grpc_trace_fuzzer);
   input_stream inp = {data, data + size};
   grpc_tcp_client_connect_impl = my_tcp_client_connect;
   gpr_now_impl = now_impl;