diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 320dd45b..a633c857 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -72,6 +72,9 @@
 
 ## Platform Observability Agent Changelog
 
+### 1.10.0
+- Fix syslog parsing for health check
+
 ### 1.9.0
 - Add collection of cloud-init service logs
 
diff --git a/platform-observability-agent/VERSION b/platform-observability-agent/VERSION
index a01185b4..81c871de 100644
--- a/platform-observability-agent/VERSION
+++ b/platform-observability-agent/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-1.10.0-dev
+1.10.0
diff --git a/platform-observability-agent/configs/health-check.conf b/platform-observability-agent/configs/health-check.conf
index 126df436..0280949b 100644
--- a/platform-observability-agent/configs/health-check.conf
+++ b/platform-observability-agent/configs/health-check.conf
@@ -155,7 +155,8 @@
     Name         tail
     Tag          Firewall_logs_from_syslog
     Path         /var/log/syslog
-    Read_from_Head true
+    Read_from_Head false
+    Mem_Buf_Limit 50MB
 
 [INPUT] #Firewall rule kernlog
     Name         tail