diff --git a/examples/axum-key-value-store/Cargo.toml b/examples/axum-key-value-store/Cargo.toml
index 765dc397..b6e0e6f2 100644
--- a/examples/axum-key-value-store/Cargo.toml
+++ b/examples/axum-key-value-store/Cargo.toml
@@ -9,9 +9,9 @@ license = "MIT"
 [dependencies]
 hyper = { version = "0.14.15", features = ["full"] }
 tokio = { version = "1.2.0", features = ["full"] }
-tower = { version = "0.4.5", features = ["full"] }
+tower = { version = "0.4.13", features = ["full"] }
 tower-http = { path = "../../tower-http", features = ["full"] }
 tracing = "0.1"
 tracing-subscriber = { version = "0.3.11", features = ["env-filter"] }
-axum = "0.4"
+axum = "0.6"
 clap = { version = "3.1.13", features = ["derive"] }
diff --git a/examples/axum-key-value-store/src/main.rs b/examples/axum-key-value-store/src/main.rs
index 18b0fc5a..12841189 100644
--- a/examples/axum-key-value-store/src/main.rs
+++ b/examples/axum-key-value-store/src/main.rs
@@ -1,21 +1,21 @@
 use axum::{
     body::Bytes,
-    error_handling::HandleErrorLayer,
-    extract::{Extension, Path},
+    extract::{Path, State},
     http::{header, HeaderValue, StatusCode},
     response::IntoResponse,
     routing::get,
-    BoxError, Router,
+    Router,
 };
 use clap::Parser;
 use std::{
     collections::HashMap,
-    net::SocketAddr,
+    net::{Ipv4Addr, SocketAddr},
     sync::{Arc, RwLock},
     time::Duration,
 };
 use tower::ServiceBuilder;
 use tower_http::{
+    timeout::TimeoutLayer,
     trace::{DefaultMakeSpan, DefaultOnResponse, TraceLayer},
     LatencyUnit, ServiceBuilderExt,
 };
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ struct Config {
 }
 
 #[derive(Clone, Debug)]
-struct State {
+struct AppState {
     db: Arc<RwLock<HashMap<String, Bytes>>>,
 }
 
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ async fn main() {
     let config = Config::parse();
 
     // Run our service
-    let addr = SocketAddr::from(([0, 0, 0, 0], config.port));
+    let addr = SocketAddr::from((Ipv4Addr::UNSPECIFIED, config.port));
     tracing::info!("Listening on {}", addr);
     axum::Server::bind(&addr)
         .serve(app().into_make_service())
@@ -50,23 +50,9 @@ async fn main() {
         .expect("server error");
 }
 
-async fn handle_errors(err: BoxError) -> impl IntoResponse {
-    if err.is::<tower::timeout::error::Elapsed>() {
-        (
-            StatusCode::REQUEST_TIMEOUT,
-            "Request took too long".to_string(),
-        )
-    } else {
-        (
-            StatusCode::INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR,
-            format!("Unhandled internal error: {}", err),
-        )
-    }
-}
-
 fn app() -> Router {
     // Build our database for holding the key/value pairs
-    let state = State {
+    let state = AppState {
         db: Arc::new(RwLock::new(HashMap::new())),
     };
 
@@ -86,12 +72,10 @@ fn app() -> Router {
                 .on_response(DefaultOnResponse::new().include_headers(true).latency_unit(LatencyUnit::Micros)),
         )
         .sensitive_response_headers(sensitive_headers)
-        // Handle errors
-        .layer(HandleErrorLayer::new(handle_errors))
         // Set a timeout
-        .timeout(Duration::from_secs(10))
-        // Share the state with each handler via a request extension
-        .add_extension(state)
+        .layer(TimeoutLayer::new(Duration::from_secs(10)))
+        // Box the response body so it implements `Default` which is required by axum
+        .map_response_body(axum::body::boxed)
         // Compress responses
         .compression()
         // Set a `Content-Type` if there isn't one already.
@@ -103,10 +87,11 @@ fn app() -> Router {
     // Build route service
     Router::new()
         .route("/:key", get(get_key).post(set_key))
-        .layer(middleware.into_inner())
+        .layer(middleware)
+        .with_state(state)
 }
 
-async fn get_key(path: Path<String>, state: Extension<State>) -> impl IntoResponse {
+async fn get_key(path: Path<String>, state: State<AppState>) -> impl IntoResponse {
     let state = state.db.read().unwrap();
 
     if let Some(value) = state.get(&*path).cloned() {
@@ -116,7 +101,7 @@ async fn get_key(path: Path<String>, state: Extension<State>) -> impl IntoRespon
     }
 }
 
-async fn set_key(Path(path): Path<String>, state: Extension<State>, value: Bytes) {
+async fn set_key(Path(path): Path<String>, state: State<AppState>, value: Bytes) {
     let mut state = state.db.write().unwrap();
     state.insert(path, value);
 }