diff --git a/packages/grafana-toolkit/src/cli/tasks/plugin.ci.ts b/packages/grafana-toolkit/src/cli/tasks/plugin.ci.ts
index f8388df6381..cf33a5ad7f5 100644
--- a/packages/grafana-toolkit/src/cli/tasks/plugin.ci.ts
+++ b/packages/grafana-toolkit/src/cli/tasks/plugin.ci.ts
@@ -64,8 +64,7 @@ const buildPluginRunner: TaskRunner<PluginCIOptions> = async ({ backend }) => {
     }
 
     // Run plugin-ci task
-    const exe = await execa('make', ['backend-plugin-ci']);
-    console.log(exe.stdout);
+    execa('make', ['backend-plugin-ci']).stdout.pipe(process.stdout);
   } else {
     // Do regular build process with coverage
     await pluginBuildRunner({ coverage: true });