diff --git a/src/backend/access/transam/xact.c b/src/backend/access/transam/xact.c
index 0dd6b82f99a..9b252213d95 100644
--- a/src/backend/access/transam/xact.c
+++ b/src/backend/access/transam/xact.c
@@ -758,13 +758,6 @@ GetCurrentTransactionStopTimestamp(void)
 void
 SetCurrentStatementStartTimestamp(void)
 {
-	/*
-	 * Skip if on a walsender; this is not needed, and it confuses monitoring
-	 * if we publish non-NULL values.
-	 */
-	if (am_walsender)
-		return;
-
 	if (!IsParallelWorker())
 		stmtStartTimestamp = GetCurrentTimestamp();
 	else
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 20ce48b2d82..b764251d875 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -732,7 +732,13 @@ pg_stat_get_activity(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 			else
 				nulls[7] = true;
 
-			if (beentry->st_xact_start_timestamp != 0)
+			/*
+			 * Don't expose transaction time for walsenders; it confuses
+			 * monitoring, particularly because we don't keep the time up-to-
+			 * date.
+			 */
+			if (beentry->st_xact_start_timestamp != 0 &&
+				beentry->st_backendType != B_WAL_SENDER)
 				values[8] = TimestampTzGetDatum(beentry->st_xact_start_timestamp);
 			else
 				nulls[8] = true;