diff --git a/.chloggen/use-observed-timestamp-if-timestamp-is-missing.yaml b/.chloggen/use-observed-timestamp-if-timestamp-is-missing.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..26138dcce0f6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.chloggen/use-observed-timestamp-if-timestamp-is-missing.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+# Use this changelog template to create an entry for release notes.
+
+# One of 'breaking', 'deprecation', 'new_component', 'enhancement', 'bug_fix'
+change_type: bug_fix
+
+# The name of the component, or a single word describing the area of concern, (e.g. filelogreceiver)
+component: clickhouseexporter
+
+# A brief description of the change.  Surround your text with quotes ("") if it needs to start with a backtick (`).
+note: Use observed timestamp if timestamp is zero
+
+# Mandatory: One or more tracking issues related to the change. You can use the PR number here if no issue exists.
+issues: [34150]
+
+# (Optional) One or more lines of additional information to render under the primary note.
+# These lines will be padded with 2 spaces and then inserted directly into the document.
+# Use pipe (|) for multiline entries.
+subtext:
+  Some opentelemetry libraries do not send timestamp for logs, but they should always send
+  | the observed timestamp. In these cases the clickhouse exporter just stored a zero timestamp
+  | to the database. This changes the behavior to look into the observed timestamp if the timestamp
+  | is zero.
+
+# If your change doesn't affect end users or the exported elements of any package,
+# you should instead start your pull request title with [chore] or use the "Skip Changelog" label.
+# Optional: The change log or logs in which this entry should be included.
+# e.g. '[user]' or '[user, api]'
+# Include 'user' if the change is relevant to end users.
+# Include 'api' if there is a change to a library API.
+# Default: '[user]'
+change_logs: [user]
diff --git a/exporter/clickhouseexporter/exporter_logs.go b/exporter/clickhouseexporter/exporter_logs.go
index 921e468fd1e0..9fa18e3f21d4 100644
--- a/exporter/clickhouseexporter/exporter_logs.go
+++ b/exporter/clickhouseexporter/exporter_logs.go
@@ -72,6 +72,7 @@ func (e *logsExporter) pushLogsData(ctx context.Context, ld plog.Logs) error {
 			_ = statement.Close()
 		}()
 		var serviceName string
+
 		for i := 0; i < ld.ResourceLogs().Len(); i++ {
 			logs := ld.ResourceLogs().At(i)
 			res := logs.Resource()
@@ -80,17 +81,25 @@ func (e *logsExporter) pushLogsData(ctx context.Context, ld plog.Logs) error {
 			if v, ok := res.Attributes().Get(conventions.AttributeServiceName); ok {
 				serviceName = v.Str()
 			}
+
 			for j := 0; j < logs.ScopeLogs().Len(); j++ {
 				rs := logs.ScopeLogs().At(j).LogRecords()
 				scopeURL := logs.ScopeLogs().At(j).SchemaUrl()
 				scopeName := logs.ScopeLogs().At(j).Scope().Name()
 				scopeVersion := logs.ScopeLogs().At(j).Scope().Version()
 				scopeAttr := attributesToMap(logs.ScopeLogs().At(j).Scope().Attributes())
+
 				for k := 0; k < rs.Len(); k++ {
 					r := rs.At(k)
+
+					timestamp := r.Timestamp()
+					if timestamp == 0 {
+						timestamp = r.ObservedTimestamp()
+					}
+
 					logAttr := attributesToMap(r.Attributes())
 					_, err = statement.ExecContext(ctx,
-						r.Timestamp().AsTime(),
+						timestamp.AsTime(),
 						traceutil.TraceIDToHexOrEmptyString(r.TraceID()),
 						traceutil.SpanIDToHexOrEmptyString(r.SpanID()),
 						uint32(r.Flags()),
diff --git a/exporter/clickhouseexporter/exporter_logs_test.go b/exporter/clickhouseexporter/exporter_logs_test.go
index aa3ff11acded..4856317a7cdd 100644
--- a/exporter/clickhouseexporter/exporter_logs_test.go
+++ b/exporter/clickhouseexporter/exporter_logs_test.go
@@ -119,6 +119,17 @@ func TestExporter_pushLogsData(t *testing.T) {
 		exporter := newTestLogsExporter(t, defaultEndpoint)
 		mustPushLogsData(t, exporter, simpleLogs(1))
 	})
+	t.Run("test with only observed timestamp", func(t *testing.T) {
+		initClickhouseTestServer(t, func(query string, values []driver.Value) error {
+			if strings.HasPrefix(query, "INSERT") {
+				require.NotEqual(t, "0", values[0])
+			}
+			return nil
+		})
+
+		exporter := newTestLogsExporter(t, defaultEndpoint)
+		mustPushLogsData(t, exporter, simpleLogsWithNoTimestamp(1))
+	})
 }
 
 func TestLogsClusterConfig(t *testing.T) {
@@ -181,6 +192,31 @@ func simpleLogs(count int) plog.Logs {
 	return logs
 }
 
+func simpleLogsWithNoTimestamp(count int) plog.Logs {
+	logs := plog.NewLogs()
+	rl := logs.ResourceLogs().AppendEmpty()
+	rl.SetSchemaUrl("https://opentelemetry.io/schemas/1.4.0")
+	rl.Resource().Attributes().PutStr("service.name", "test-service")
+	sl := rl.ScopeLogs().AppendEmpty()
+	sl.SetSchemaUrl("https://opentelemetry.io/schemas/1.7.0")
+	sl.Scope().SetName("io.opentelemetry.contrib.clickhouse")
+	sl.Scope().SetVersion("1.0.0")
+	sl.Scope().Attributes().PutStr("lib", "clickhouse")
+	timestamp := time.Unix(1703498029, 0)
+	for i := 0; i < count; i++ {
+		r := sl.LogRecords().AppendEmpty()
+		r.SetObservedTimestamp(pcommon.NewTimestampFromTime(timestamp))
+		r.SetSeverityNumber(plog.SeverityNumberError2)
+		r.SetSeverityText("error")
+		r.Body().SetStr("error message")
+		r.Attributes().PutStr(conventions.AttributeServiceNamespace, "default")
+		r.SetFlags(plog.DefaultLogRecordFlags)
+		r.SetTraceID([16]byte{1, 2, 3, byte(i)})
+		r.SetSpanID([8]byte{1, 2, 3, byte(i)})
+	}
+	return logs
+}
+
 func mustPushLogsData(t *testing.T, exporter *logsExporter, ld plog.Logs) {
 	err := exporter.pushLogsData(context.TODO(), ld)
 	require.NoError(t, err)