diff --git a/CHANGELOG_PENDING.md b/CHANGELOG_PENDING.md
index 77940da8a75..11696ed3b02 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG_PENDING.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG_PENDING.md
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 
 - Data Storage
   - [state] \#6541 Move pruneBlocks from consensus/state to state/execution. (@JayT106)
-  
+
 - Tooling
   - [tools/tm-signer-harness] \#6498 Set OS home dir to instead of the hardcoded PATH. (@JayT106)
   - [metrics] \#9682 move state-syncing and block-syncing metrics to their respective packages (@cmwaters)
diff --git a/rpc/jsonrpc/server/http_server.go b/rpc/jsonrpc/server/http_server.go
index 617e1bbdc68..6dd772e3d97 100644
--- a/rpc/jsonrpc/server/http_server.go
+++ b/rpc/jsonrpc/server/http_server.go
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ func WriteRPCResponseHTTPError(
 		panic("tried to write http error response without RPC error")
 	}
 
-	jsonBytes, err := json.MarshalIndent(res, "", "  ")
+	jsonBytes, err := json.Marshal(res)
 	if err != nil {
 		return fmt.Errorf("json marshal: %w", err)
 	}
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ func writeRPCResponseHTTP(w http.ResponseWriter, headers []httpHeader, res ...ty
 		v = res
 	}
 
-	jsonBytes, err := json.MarshalIndent(v, "", "  ")
+	jsonBytes, err := json.Marshal(v)
 	if err != nil {
 		return fmt.Errorf("json marshal: %w", err)
 	}
diff --git a/rpc/jsonrpc/server/http_server_test.go b/rpc/jsonrpc/server/http_server_test.go
index e1c499200f1..72e87320737 100644
--- a/rpc/jsonrpc/server/http_server_test.go
+++ b/rpc/jsonrpc/server/http_server_test.go
@@ -121,13 +121,7 @@ func TestWriteRPCResponseHTTP(t *testing.T) {
 	assert.Equal(t, 200, resp.StatusCode)
 	assert.Equal(t, "application/json", resp.Header.Get("Content-Type"))
 	assert.Equal(t, "public, max-age=86400", resp.Header.Get("Cache-control"))
-	assert.Equal(t, `{
-  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
-  "id": -1,
-  "result": {
-    "value": "hello"
-  }
-}`, string(body))
+	assert.Equal(t, `{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":-1,"result":{"value":"hello"}}`, string(body))
 
 	// multiple arguments
 	w = httptest.NewRecorder()
@@ -142,22 +136,7 @@ func TestWriteRPCResponseHTTP(t *testing.T) {
 
 	assert.Equal(t, 200, resp.StatusCode)
 	assert.Equal(t, "application/json", resp.Header.Get("Content-Type"))
-	assert.Equal(t, `[
-  {
-    "jsonrpc": "2.0",
-    "id": -1,
-    "result": {
-      "value": "hello"
-    }
-  },
-  {
-    "jsonrpc": "2.0",
-    "id": -1,
-    "result": {
-      "value": "world"
-    }
-  }
-]`, string(body))
+	assert.Equal(t, `[{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":-1,"result":{"value":"hello"}},{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":-1,"result":{"value":"world"}}]`, string(body))
 }
 
 func TestWriteRPCResponseHTTPError(t *testing.T) {
@@ -173,13 +152,5 @@ func TestWriteRPCResponseHTTPError(t *testing.T) {
 	require.NoError(t, err)
 	assert.Equal(t, http.StatusInternalServerError, resp.StatusCode)
 	assert.Equal(t, "application/json", resp.Header.Get("Content-Type"))
-	assert.Equal(t, `{
-  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
-  "id": -1,
-  "error": {
-    "code": -32603,
-    "message": "Internal error",
-    "data": "foo"
-  }
-}`, string(body))
+	assert.Equal(t, `{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":-1,"error":{"code":-32603,"message":"Internal error","data":"foo"}}`, string(body))
 }
diff --git a/rpc/jsonrpc/server/ws_handler.go b/rpc/jsonrpc/server/ws_handler.go
index f8a89714ea9..b2f1382c57b 100644
--- a/rpc/jsonrpc/server/ws_handler.go
+++ b/rpc/jsonrpc/server/ws_handler.go
@@ -431,7 +431,10 @@ func (wsc *wsConnection) writeRoutine() {
 				return
 			}
 		case msg := <-wsc.writeChan:
-			jsonBytes, err := json.MarshalIndent(msg, "", "  ")
+			// Use json.MarshalIndent instead of Marshal for pretty output.
+			// Pretty output not necessary, since most consumers of WS events are
+			// automated processes, not humans.
+			jsonBytes, err := json.Marshal(msg)
 			if err != nil {
 				wsc.Logger.Error("Failed to marshal RPCResponse to JSON", "err", err)
 				continue