diff --git a/COPYRIGHT.txt b/COPYRIGHT.txt
index d426f9783..09fb80908 100644
--- a/COPYRIGHT.txt
+++ b/COPYRIGHT.txt
@@ -299,6 +299,7 @@ Liu Hanlin
 Liu Lang Wa
 Liz Chatman
 Lokesh Sanapalli
+Lourens Naudé
 Luca Scannapieco
 Luis Garcés-Erice
 Lukas Krejci
diff --git a/debezium-connector-mysql/src/main/java/io/debezium/connector/mysql/MySqlStreamingChangeEventSource.java b/debezium-connector-mysql/src/main/java/io/debezium/connector/mysql/MySqlStreamingChangeEventSource.java
index 8fcfbfad5..aa02b39c0 100644
--- a/debezium-connector-mysql/src/main/java/io/debezium/connector/mysql/MySqlStreamingChangeEventSource.java
+++ b/debezium-connector-mysql/src/main/java/io/debezium/connector/mysql/MySqlStreamingChangeEventSource.java
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 import java.sql.SQLException;
 import java.time.Duration;
 import java.time.Instant;
+import java.time.temporal.ChronoUnit;
 import java.util.EnumMap;
 import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Map;
@@ -87,6 +88,7 @@ public class MySqlStreamingChangeEventSource implements StreamingChangeEventSour
     private long initialEventsToSkip = 0L;
     private boolean skipEvent = false;
     private boolean ignoreDmlEventByGtidSource = false;
+    private final boolean isGtidModeEnabled;
     private final Predicate<String> gtidDmlSourceFilter;
     private final AtomicLong totalRecordCounter = new AtomicLong();
     private volatile Map<String, ?> lastOffset = null;
@@ -190,6 +192,7 @@ public MySqlStreamingChangeEventSource(MySqlConnectorConfig connectorConfig, Abs
         Configuration configuration = connectorConfig.getConfig();
         boolean filterDmlEventsByGtidSource = configuration.getBoolean(MySqlConnectorConfig.GTID_SOURCE_FILTER_DML_EVENTS);
         gtidDmlSourceFilter = filterDmlEventsByGtidSource ? connectorConfig.gtidSourceFilter() : null;
+        isGtidModeEnabled = connection.isGtidModeEnabled();
     }
 
     protected void onEvent(MySqlOffsetContext offsetContext, Event event) {
@@ -212,11 +215,30 @@ protected void onEvent(MySqlOffsetContext offsetContext, Event event) {
             return;
         }
 
-        ts = clock.currentTimeInMillis() - eventTs;
+        eventTimestamp = getEventTimestamp(event, eventTs);
+
+        ts = clock.currentTimeInMillis() - eventTimestamp.toEpochMilli();
         LOGGER.trace("Current milliseconds behind source: {} ms", ts);
         metrics.setMilliSecondsBehindSource(ts);
     }
 
+    private Instant getEventTimestamp(Event event, long eventTs) {
+        // Prefer higher resolution replication timestamps from MySQL 8 GTID events, if possible
+        if (isGtidModeEnabled) {
+            if (event.getHeader().getEventType() == EventType.GTID) {
+                GtidEventData gtidEvent = unwrapData(event);
+                final long gtidEventTs = gtidEvent.getOriginalCommitTimestamp();
+                if (gtidEventTs != 0) {
+                    // >= MySQL 8.0.1, prefer the higher resolution replication timestamp
+                    return Instant.EPOCH.plus(gtidEventTs, ChronoUnit.MICROS);
+                }
+            }
+        }
+
+        // Fallback to second resolution event timestamps
+        return Instant.ofEpochMilli(eventTs);
+    }
+
     protected void ignoreEvent(MySqlOffsetContext offsetContext, Event event) {
         LOGGER.trace("Ignoring event due to missing handler: {}", event);
     }
@@ -228,10 +250,6 @@ protected void handleEvent(MySqlPartition partition, MySqlOffsetContext offsetCo
         }
 
         final EventHeader eventHeader = event.getHeader();
-        // Update the source offset info. Note that the client returns the value in *milliseconds*, even though the binlog
-        // contains only *seconds* precision ...
-        // HEARTBEAT events have no timestamp; only set the timestamp if the event is not a HEARTBEAT
-        eventTimestamp = !eventHeader.getEventType().equals(EventType.HEARTBEAT) ? Instant.ofEpochMilli(eventHeader.getTimestamp()) : null;
         offsetContext.setBinlogServerId(eventHeader.getServerId());
 
         final EventType eventType = eventHeader.getEventType();
@@ -869,7 +887,6 @@ public void execute(ChangeEventSourceContext context, MySqlPartition partition,
             client.registerEventListener((event) -> logEvent(effectiveOffsetContext, event));
         }
 
-        final boolean isGtidModeEnabled = connection.isGtidModeEnabled();
         metrics.setIsGtidModeEnabled(isGtidModeEnabled);
 
         // Get the current GtidSet from MySQL so we can get a filtered/merged GtidSet based off of the last Debezium checkpoint.
diff --git a/jenkins-jobs/scripts/config/Aliases.txt b/jenkins-jobs/scripts/config/Aliases.txt
index 18e6a6d24..17198aabd 100644
--- a/jenkins-jobs/scripts/config/Aliases.txt
+++ b/jenkins-jobs/scripts/config/Aliases.txt
@@ -241,4 +241,5 @@ Lars M Johansson,Lars M. Johansson
 ahmedrachid,Ahmed Rachid Hazourli
 sherpa003,Jiri Kulhanek
 slknijnenburg,Sebastiaan Knijnenburg
-baabgai,baabgai
\ No newline at end of file
+baabgai,baabgai
+methodmissing,Lourens Naudé