diff --git a/.github/workflows/rust.yml b/.github/workflows/rust.yml
index dfdc13057d4e..ac9b7d14c59f 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/rust.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/rust.yml
@@ -131,9 +131,8 @@ jobs:
           rust-version: stable
       - name: Check datafusion-proto (no-default-features)
         run: cargo check --profile ci --all-targets --no-default-features -p datafusion-proto
-      # fails due to https://github.com/apache/datafusion/issues/15157
-      #- name: Check datafusion-proto (json)
-      #  run: cargo check --profile ci --all-targets --no-default-features -p datafusion-proto --features=json
+      - name: Check datafusion-proto (json)
+        run: cargo check --profile ci --all-targets --no-default-features -p datafusion-proto --features=json
       - name: Check datafusion-proto (parquet)
         run: cargo check --profile ci --all-targets --no-default-features -p datafusion-proto --features=parquet
       - name: Check datafusion-proto (avro)
diff --git a/datafusion/proto/Cargo.toml b/datafusion/proto/Cargo.toml
index 39897cfcf2de..553fccf7d428 100644
--- a/datafusion/proto/Cargo.toml
+++ b/datafusion/proto/Cargo.toml
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ name = "datafusion_proto"
 
 [features]
 default = ["parquet"]
-json = ["pbjson", "serde", "serde_json"]
+json = ["pbjson", "serde", "serde_json", "datafusion-proto-common/json"]
 parquet = ["datafusion/parquet", "datafusion-common/parquet"]
 avro = ["datafusion/avro", "datafusion-common/avro"]