diff --git a/packages/rancher-logging/overlay/templates/loggings/k3s/logging-k3s-systemd.yaml b/packages/rancher-logging/overlay/templates/loggings/k3s/logging-k3s-systemd.yaml
index c23a10979..69a9a9387 100644
--- a/packages/rancher-logging/overlay/templates/loggings/k3s/logging-k3s-systemd.yaml
+++ b/packages/rancher-logging/overlay/templates/loggings/k3s/logging-k3s-systemd.yaml
@@ -12,7 +12,6 @@ spec:
     inputTail:
       Tag: "k3s"
       Path: "/var/log/syslog"
-      Parser: "syslog"
     extraVolumeMounts:
       - source: "/var/log/"
         destination: "/var/log"