diff --git a/crates/revm/revm-inspectors/src/tracing/mod.rs b/crates/revm/revm-inspectors/src/tracing/mod.rs
index d12503b2fb..a12b1e131b 100644
--- a/crates/revm/revm-inspectors/src/tracing/mod.rs
+++ b/crates/revm/revm-inspectors/src/tracing/mod.rs
@@ -212,6 +212,13 @@ impl TracingInspector {
             self.step_stack.pop().expect("can't fill step without starting a step first");
         let step = &mut self.traces.arena[trace_idx].trace.steps[step_idx];
 
+        if self.config.record_memory_snapshots {
+            // resize memory so opcodes that allocated memory is correctly displayed
+            if interp.memory.len() > step.memory.len() {
+                step.memory.resize(interp.memory.len());
+            }
+        }
+
         if let Some(pc) = interp.program_counter().checked_sub(1) {
             if self.config.record_state_diff {
                 let op = interp.contract.bytecode.bytecode()[pc];
diff --git a/crates/revm/revm-inspectors/src/tracing/types.rs b/crates/revm/revm-inspectors/src/tracing/types.rs
index 458d85dc6a..e7630309f9 100644
--- a/crates/revm/revm-inspectors/src/tracing/types.rs
+++ b/crates/revm/revm-inspectors/src/tracing/types.rs
@@ -445,7 +445,9 @@ pub(crate) struct CallTraceStep {
     pub(crate) contract: Address,
     /// Stack before step execution
     pub(crate) stack: Stack,
-    /// Memory before step execution
+    /// All allocated memory in a step
+    ///
+    /// This will be empty if memory capture is disabled
     pub(crate) memory: Memory,
     /// Size of memory
     pub(crate) memory_size: usize,