diff --git a/.github/workflows/main.yml b/.github/workflows/main.yml
index 14fa75329c0d..bd909a2eaf16 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/main.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/main.yml
@@ -34,6 +34,11 @@ concurrency:
   group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}2
   cancel-in-progress: true
 
+env:
+  # Always collect backtraces on panics to help with debugging CI failures,
+  # especially intermittent ones.
+  RUST_BACKTRACE: 1
+
 jobs:
   # Check Code style quickly by running `rustfmt` over all code
   rustfmt: