diff --git a/.chloggen/fixexplicittokenta.yaml b/.chloggen/fixexplicittokenta.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..cc5b74f48b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.chloggen/fixexplicittokenta.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+# 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. agent, clusterReceiver, gateway, operator, chart, other)
+component: targetAllocator
+# A brief description of the change. Surround your text with quotes ("") if it needs to start with a backtick (`).
+note: Fix the name of the service account token given when featureGates.explicitMountServiceAccountToken is true
+# One or more tracking issues related to the change
+issues: [1427]
+# (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:
diff --git a/helm-charts/splunk-otel-collector/templates/targetAllocator-deployment.yaml b/helm-charts/splunk-otel-collector/templates/targetAllocator-deployment.yaml
index 8e5169fc24..c65724839c 100644
--- a/helm-charts/splunk-otel-collector/templates/targetAllocator-deployment.yaml
+++ b/helm-charts/splunk-otel-collector/templates/targetAllocator-deployment.yaml
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ spec:
         app: targetAllocator
     spec:
       serviceAccountName: {{ template "splunk-otel-collector.targetAllocatorServiceAccountName" . }}
-      {{- if .Values.featureGates.explicitMountServiceAccountToken }}}}
+      {{- if .Values.featureGates.explicitMountServiceAccountToken }}
       automountServiceAccountToken: false
       {{- end }}
       containers: