diff --git a/.chloggen/fix-operator-inst-bug.yaml b/.chloggen/fix-operator-inst-bug.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a312c242b4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.chloggen/fix-operator-inst-bug.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: agent
+# A brief description of the change. Surround your text with quotes ("") if it needs to start with a backtick (`).
+note: Fix bug where sometimes Instrumentation opentelemetry.io/v1alpha1 can be installed too early
+# One or more tracking issues related to the change
+issues: [1544]
+# (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/examples/enable-operator-and-auto-instrumentation/rendered_manifests/operator/instrumentation.yaml b/examples/enable-operator-and-auto-instrumentation/rendered_manifests/operator/instrumentation.yaml
index 8000f05711..f358023f5a 100644
--- a/examples/enable-operator-and-auto-instrumentation/rendered_manifests/operator/instrumentation.yaml
+++ b/examples/enable-operator-and-auto-instrumentation/rendered_manifests/operator/instrumentation.yaml
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ metadata:
     app.kubernetes.io/component: otel-operator
   annotations:
     "helm.sh/hook": post-install,post-upgrade
-    "helm.sh/hook-weight": "1"
+    "helm.sh/hook-weight": "5"
 spec:
   exporter:
     endpoint: http://default-splunk-otel-collector-agent.default.svc.cluster.local:4317
diff --git a/helm-charts/splunk-otel-collector/templates/operator/instrumentation.yaml b/helm-charts/splunk-otel-collector/templates/operator/instrumentation.yaml
index 87ba3f6c67..859021146d 100644
--- a/helm-charts/splunk-otel-collector/templates/operator/instrumentation.yaml
+++ b/helm-charts/splunk-otel-collector/templates/operator/instrumentation.yaml
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ metadata:
     app.kubernetes.io/component: otel-operator
   annotations:
     "helm.sh/hook": post-install,post-upgrade
-    "helm.sh/hook-weight": "1"
+    "helm.sh/hook-weight": "5"
 spec:
   exporter:
     endpoint: {{ include "splunk-otel-collector.operator.instrumentation-exporter-endpoint" . }}