diff --git a/processor/awsapplicationsignalsprocessor/internal/resolver/kubernetes.go b/processor/awsapplicationsignalsprocessor/internal/resolver/kubernetes.go
index 5ff1eec7f15b..260d3b1f986f 100644
--- a/processor/awsapplicationsignalsprocessor/internal/resolver/kubernetes.go
+++ b/processor/awsapplicationsignalsprocessor/internal/resolver/kubernetes.go
@@ -593,13 +593,16 @@ func newKubernetesResourceAttributesResolver(platformCode, clusterName string) *
 	}
 }
 
-// Attempt to get the `k8s.cluster.name“ attribute that should be populated from resourcedetectionprocessor.
+// Attempt to get the `k8s.cluster.name` attribute that should be populated from resourcedetectionprocessor.
 // If that attribute doesn't exist (e.g. resourcedetectionprocessor is not used or fails to get the k8s attributes),
 // fallback to the processor's configured clusterName (which is "UNKNOWN" if not specified).
 func (h *kubernetesResourceAttributesResolver) getResourceDetectorClusterName(resourceAttributes pcommon.Map) string {
 	clusterName := h.clusterName
 
-	if val, ok := resourceAttributes.Get(attr.ResourceDetectionClusterName); ok {
+	// Also check for empty string from `k8s.cluster.name` attribute, since resource detection could fail
+	// and upstream will populate this attribute with an empty string
+	// https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/blob/v0.114.0/processor/resourcedetectionprocessor/internal/aws/eks/detector.go#L137-L176
+	if val, ok := resourceAttributes.Get(attr.ResourceDetectionClusterName); ok && val.Str() != "" {
 		clusterName = val.Str()
 	}
 
diff --git a/processor/awsapplicationsignalsprocessor/internal/resolver/kubernetes_test.go b/processor/awsapplicationsignalsprocessor/internal/resolver/kubernetes_test.go
index 4ea02503c409..6cbe06ca8df8 100644
--- a/processor/awsapplicationsignalsprocessor/internal/resolver/kubernetes_test.go
+++ b/processor/awsapplicationsignalsprocessor/internal/resolver/kubernetes_test.go
@@ -894,6 +894,16 @@ func TestK8sResourceAttributesResolverOnEKS(t *testing.T) {
 				common.AttributeEKSClusterName: "DetectedClusterName",
 			},
 		},
+		{
+			"testEmptyClusterNameFromDetector",
+			map[string]string{
+				attr.ResourceDetectionClusterName: "",
+			},
+			map[string]string{
+				attr.AWSLocalEnvironment:       "eks:test-cluster/test-namespace-3",
+				common.AttributeEKSClusterName: "test-cluster",
+			},
+		},
 	}
 	for _, tt := range tests {
 		t.Run(tt.name, func(t *testing.T) {
@@ -912,7 +922,7 @@ func TestK8sResourceAttributesResolverOnEKS(t *testing.T) {
 				assert.Equal(t, val, getStrAttr(attributes, key, t), fmt.Sprintf("expected %s for key %s", val, key))
 			}
 
-			if _, ok := resourceAttributes.Get(attr.ResourceDetectionClusterName); ok {
+			if val, ok := resourceAttributes.Get(attr.ResourceDetectionClusterName); ok && val.Str() != "" {
 				assert.Equal(t, "/aws/containerinsights/DetectedClusterName/application", getStrAttr(resourceAttributes, semconv.AttributeAWSLogGroupNames, t))
 			} else {
 				assert.Equal(t, "/aws/containerinsights/test-cluster/application", getStrAttr(resourceAttributes, semconv.AttributeAWSLogGroupNames, t))
@@ -926,10 +936,13 @@ func TestGetResourceDetectorClusterName(t *testing.T) {
 
 	resourceDetectorAttributes := pcommon.NewMap()
 	resourceDetectorClusterName := resolver.getResourceDetectorClusterName(resourceDetectorAttributes)
-	resourceDetectorAttributes.PutStr(attr.ResourceDetectionClusterName, "DetectedClusterName")
 	assert.Equal(t, resourceDetectorClusterName, "test-cluster")
+	resourceDetectorAttributes.PutStr(attr.ResourceDetectionClusterName, "DetectedClusterName")
 	resourceDetectorClusterName = resolver.getResourceDetectorClusterName(resourceDetectorAttributes)
 	assert.Equal(t, resourceDetectorClusterName, "DetectedClusterName")
+	resourceDetectorAttributes.PutStr(attr.ResourceDetectionClusterName, "")
+	resourceDetectorClusterName = resolver.getResourceDetectorClusterName(resourceDetectorAttributes)
+	assert.Equal(t, resourceDetectorClusterName, "test-cluster")
 }
 
 func TestK8sResourceAttributesResolverOnK8S(t *testing.T) {