diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index a32cfdb93c..db1f09022d 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ Main (unreleased)
   - Add perf_schema quantile columns to collector
 
 - Add three new stdlib functions to_base64, from_URLbase64 and to_URLbase64 (@ravishankar15)
-- Add ignore_older option for local.file_match
+- Add `ignore_older` option for local.file_match (@ravishankar15)
 
 ### Bugfixes
 
diff --git a/internal/component/local/file_match/file_test.go b/internal/component/local/file_match/file_test.go
index 4f37ab6259..cd0d83a8bc 100644
--- a/internal/component/local/file_match/file_test.go
+++ b/internal/component/local/file_match/file_test.go
@@ -299,7 +299,6 @@ func createComponentWithLabels(t *testing.T, dir string, paths []string, exclude
 	}, Arguments{
 		PathTargets: tPaths,
 		SyncPeriod:  1 * time.Second,
-		IgnoreOlder: 1 * time.Hour,
 	})
 
 	require.NoError(t, err)