diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 1427e512bc80..0a41585f7831 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@
 - `examples/demo`: fix baggage not work in trace demo app. (#9418)
 - `prometheusreceiver`: Handle the condition where `up` metric value is NaN (#9253)
 - `tanzuobservabilityexporter`: Make metrics stanza in config be optional (#9098)
+- `filelogreceiver`: Update Kubernetes examples to fix native OTel logs collection issue where 0 length logs cause errors (#9754)
 
 ## v0.50.0
 
diff --git a/examples/kubernetes/otel-collector-config.yml b/examples/kubernetes/otel-collector-config.yml
index e3952edf7f46..62a1b68c2c6b 100644
--- a/examples/kubernetes/otel-collector-config.yml
+++ b/examples/kubernetes/otel-collector-config.yml
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ receivers:
       # Parse CRI-O format
       - type: regex_parser
         id: parser-crio
-        regex: '^(?P<time>[^ Z]+) (?P<stream>stdout|stderr) (?P<logtag>[^ ]*) (?P<log>.*)$'
+        regex: '^(?P<time>[^ Z]+) (?P<stream>stdout|stderr) (?P<logtag>[^ ]*) ?(?P<log>.*)$'
         output: extract_metadata_from_filepath
         timestamp:
           parse_from: attributes.time
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ receivers:
       # Parse CRI-Containerd format
       - type: regex_parser
         id: parser-containerd
-        regex: '^(?P<time>[^ ^Z]+Z) (?P<stream>stdout|stderr) (?P<logtag>[^ ]*) (?P<log>.*)$'
+        regex: '^(?P<time>[^ ^Z]+Z) (?P<stream>stdout|stderr) (?P<logtag>[^ ]*) ?(?P<log>.*)$'
         output: extract_metadata_from_filepath
         timestamp:
           parse_from: attributes.time
diff --git a/examples/kubernetes/otel-collector.yaml b/examples/kubernetes/otel-collector.yaml
index 78a1fdab0f29..ac0afb91ea7c 100644
--- a/examples/kubernetes/otel-collector.yaml
+++ b/examples/kubernetes/otel-collector.yaml
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ data:
           # Parse CRI-O format
           - type: regex_parser
             id: parser-crio
-            regex: '^(?P<time>[^ Z]+) (?P<stream>stdout|stderr) (?P<logtag>[^ ]*) (?P<log>.*)$'
+            regex: '^(?P<time>[^ Z]+) (?P<stream>stdout|stderr) (?P<logtag>[^ ]*) ?(?P<log>.*)$'
             output: extract_metadata_from_filepath
             timestamp:
               parse_from: attributes.time
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ data:
           # Parse CRI-Containerd format
           - type: regex_parser
             id: parser-containerd
-            regex: '^(?P<time>[^ ^Z]+Z) (?P<stream>stdout|stderr) (?P<logtag>[^ ]*) (?P<log>.*)$'
+            regex: '^(?P<time>[^ ^Z]+Z) (?P<stream>stdout|stderr) (?P<logtag>[^ ]*) ?(?P<log>.*)$'
             output: extract_metadata_from_filepath
             timestamp:
               parse_from: attributes.time