diff --git a/pkg/sendbuffer/sendbuffer.go b/pkg/sendbuffer/sendbuffer.go
index 8c8633209..246ccd278 100644
--- a/pkg/sendbuffer/sendbuffer.go
+++ b/pkg/sendbuffer/sendbuffer.go
@@ -30,6 +30,9 @@ type SendBuffer struct {
 	sender                                      sender
 	sendTicker                                  *time.Ticker
 	isSending                                   bool
+
+	// logsJustPurged is used to prevent attempting to delete logs that were just purged
+	logsJustPurged bool
 }
 
 type option func(*SendBuffer)
@@ -108,6 +111,10 @@ func (sb *SendBuffer) Write(in []byte) (int, error) {
 	if len(in)+sb.size > sb.maxStorageSizeBytes {
 		sb.deleteLogs(len(sb.logs))
 
+		// mark that we have just purged the logs so that any waiting deletes
+		// will not try to delete what was purged
+		sb.logsJustPurged = true
+
 		sb.logger.Log(
 			"msg", "reached capacity, dropping all data and starting over",
 			"method", "Write",
@@ -281,16 +288,20 @@ func (sb *SendBuffer) sendAndPurge() error {
 		return nil
 	}
 
-	// There is a small possibility that the buffer gets full while were in the middle of sending
-	// and gets deleted. However, we don't want to block writes while were waiting on a network call
-	// to send the logs. To live with this, we just have the deleteLogs func make sure that the buffer
-	// is not empty (ie: did not get purged while waiting on network call).
-
 	// testing on a new enrollment in debug mode, log size hit 130K bytes
 	// before enrollment completed and was able to ship logs
 	// 2023-11-16
 	sb.writeMutex.Lock()
 	defer sb.writeMutex.Unlock()
+
+	// There is a possibility that the log buffer gets full while were in the middle of sending
+	// and gets deleted. However, we don't want to block writes while were waiting on a network call
+	// to send the logs. To live with this, we just verify that the logs didn't just get purged.
+	if sb.logsJustPurged {
+		sb.logsJustPurged = false
+		return nil
+	}
+
 	sb.deleteLogs(lastKey)
 
 	return nil
@@ -325,9 +336,6 @@ func (sb *SendBuffer) copyLogs(w io.Writer, maxSizeBytes int) (int, error) {
 // deleteLogs deletes the logs up to the provided index
 // it's up to the caller to lock the write mutex
 func (sb *SendBuffer) deleteLogs(toIndex int) {
-	if len(sb.logs) == 0 {
-		return
-	}
 
 	sizeDeleted := 0
 	for i := 0; i < toIndex; i++ {
diff --git a/pkg/sendbuffer/sendbuffer_test.go b/pkg/sendbuffer/sendbuffer_test.go
index 811865fba..fb77164d8 100644
--- a/pkg/sendbuffer/sendbuffer_test.go
+++ b/pkg/sendbuffer/sendbuffer_test.go
@@ -115,8 +115,9 @@ func TestBufferFullPurgeWaitsForSendAndPurge(t *testing.T) {
 
 	sb := New(
 		&testSender{lastReceived: &bytes.Buffer{}, t: t},
-		WithMaxStorageSizeBytes(1),
-		WithMaxSendSizeBytes(1),
+		WithMaxStorageSizeBytes(11),
+		WithMaxSendSizeBytes(5),
+		WithSendInterval(100*time.Millisecond),
 	)
 
 	// kind of an ugly test, but it was the simplest way to reproduce the issue
@@ -130,6 +131,7 @@ func TestBufferFullPurgeWaitsForSendAndPurge(t *testing.T) {
 
 	go func() {
 		for {
+			time.Sleep(50 * time.Millisecond)
 			sb.sendAndPurge()
 		}
 	}()