diff --git a/types/netlogtype/netlogtype.go b/types/netlogtype/netlogtype.go
index f2fa2bda9..0f552611e 100644
--- a/types/netlogtype/netlogtype.go
+++ b/types/netlogtype/netlogtype.go
@@ -12,20 +12,17 @@ import (
 	"tailscale.com/types/ipproto"
 )
 
-// TODO(joetsai): Remove "omitempty" if "omitzero" is ever supported in both
-// the v1 and v2 "json" packages.
-
 // Message is the log message that captures network traffic.
 type Message struct {
-	NodeID tailcfg.StableNodeID `json:"nodeId" cbor:"0,keyasint"` // e.g., "n123456CNTRL"
+	NodeID tailcfg.StableNodeID `json:"nodeId"` // e.g., "n123456CNTRL"
 
-	Start time.Time `json:"start" cbor:"12,keyasint"` // inclusive
-	End   time.Time `json:"end"   cbor:"13,keyasint"` // inclusive
+	Start time.Time `json:"start"` // inclusive
+	End   time.Time `json:"end"`   // inclusive
 
-	VirtualTraffic  []ConnectionCounts `json:"virtualTraffic,omitempty"  cbor:"14,keyasint,omitempty"`
-	SubnetTraffic   []ConnectionCounts `json:"subnetTraffic,omitempty"   cbor:"15,keyasint,omitempty"`
-	ExitTraffic     []ConnectionCounts `json:"exitTraffic,omitempty"     cbor:"16,keyasint,omitempty"`
-	PhysicalTraffic []ConnectionCounts `json:"physicalTraffic,omitempty" cbor:"17,keyasint,omitempty"`
+	VirtualTraffic  []ConnectionCounts `json:"virtualTraffic,omitempty"`
+	SubnetTraffic   []ConnectionCounts `json:"subnetTraffic,omitempty"`
+	ExitTraffic     []ConnectionCounts `json:"exitTraffic,omitempty"`
+	PhysicalTraffic []ConnectionCounts `json:"physicalTraffic,omitempty"`
 }
 
 const (
@@ -51,18 +48,6 @@ const (
 	// this object is nested within an array.
 	// It assumes that netip.Addr never has IPv6 zones.
 	MaxConnectionCountsJSONSize = len(maxJSONConnCounts)
-
-	maxCBORConnCounts = "\xbf" + maxCBORConn + maxCBORCounts + "\xff"
-	maxCBORConn       = "\x00" + maxCBORProto + "\x01" + maxCBORAddrPort + "\x02" + maxCBORAddrPort
-	maxCBORProto      = "\x18\xff"
-	maxCBORAddrPort   = "\x52\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff"
-	maxCBORCounts     = "\x0c" + maxCBORCount + "\x0d" + maxCBORCount + "\x0e" + maxCBORCount + "\x0f" + maxCBORCount
-	maxCBORCount      = "\x1b\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff"
-
-	// MaxConnectionCountsCBORSize is the maximum size of a ConnectionCounts
-	// when it is serialized as CBOR.
-	// It assumes that netip.Addr never has IPv6 zones.
-	MaxConnectionCountsCBORSize = len(maxCBORConnCounts)
 )
 
 // ConnectionCounts is a flattened struct of both a connection and counts.
@@ -73,19 +58,19 @@ type ConnectionCounts struct {
 
 // Connection is a 5-tuple of proto, source and destination IP and port.
 type Connection struct {
-	Proto ipproto.Proto  `json:"proto,omitzero,omitempty" cbor:"0,keyasint,omitempty"`
-	Src   netip.AddrPort `json:"src,omitzero,omitempty"   cbor:"1,keyasint,omitempty"`
-	Dst   netip.AddrPort `json:"dst,omitzero,omitempty"   cbor:"2,keyasint,omitempty"`
+	Proto ipproto.Proto  `json:"proto,omitzero"`
+	Src   netip.AddrPort `json:"src,omitzero"`
+	Dst   netip.AddrPort `json:"dst,omitzero"`
 }
 
 func (c Connection) IsZero() bool { return c == Connection{} }
 
 // Counts are statistics about a particular connection.
 type Counts struct {
-	TxPackets uint64 `json:"txPkts,omitzero,omitempty"  cbor:"12,keyasint,omitempty"`
-	TxBytes   uint64 `json:"txBytes,omitzero,omitempty" cbor:"13,keyasint,omitempty"`
-	RxPackets uint64 `json:"rxPkts,omitzero,omitempty"  cbor:"14,keyasint,omitempty"`
-	RxBytes   uint64 `json:"rxBytes,omitzero,omitempty" cbor:"15,keyasint,omitempty"`
+	TxPackets uint64 `json:"txPkts,omitzero"`
+	TxBytes   uint64 `json:"txBytes,omitzero"`
+	RxPackets uint64 `json:"rxPkts,omitzero"`
+	RxBytes   uint64 `json:"rxBytes,omitzero"`
 }
 
 func (c Counts) IsZero() bool { return c == Counts{} }
diff --git a/types/netlogtype/netlogtype_test.go b/types/netlogtype/netlogtype_test.go
index 403cb9508..00f89b228 100644
--- a/types/netlogtype/netlogtype_test.go
+++ b/types/netlogtype/netlogtype_test.go
@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ import (
 	"net/netip"
 	"testing"
 
-	"github.com/fxamacker/cbor/v2"
 	"github.com/google/go-cmp/cmp"
 	"tailscale.com/util/must"
 )
@@ -32,10 +31,4 @@ func TestMaxSize(t *testing.T) {
 	if string(outJSON) != maxJSONConnCounts {
 		t.Errorf("JSON mismatch (-got +want):\n%s", cmp.Diff(string(outJSON), maxJSONConnCounts))
 	}
-
-	outCBOR := must.Get(cbor.Marshal(cc))
-	maxCBORConnCountsAlt := "\xa7" + maxCBORConnCounts[1:len(maxCBORConnCounts)-1] // may use a definite encoding of map
-	if string(outCBOR) != maxCBORConnCounts && string(outCBOR) != maxCBORConnCountsAlt {
-		t.Errorf("CBOR mismatch (-got +want):\n%s", cmp.Diff(string(outCBOR), maxCBORConnCounts))
-	}
 }