diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 003e2acaec305..be347c41d756e 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
 
 - `tanzuobservabilityexporter`: Improve how negative values in exponential histograms are handled. (#10135)
 - `resourcedetectionprocessor`: GCP resource detector now properly detects zone/region on GKE (#10347)
+- `resourcedetectionprocessor`: GCP resource detector no longer fails to detect resource when using workload identity (#10486)
 
 ## v0.52.0
 
diff --git a/processor/resourcedetectionprocessor/internal/gcp/gcp.go b/processor/resourcedetectionprocessor/internal/gcp/gcp.go
index 0ab73e86a3d7c..6d3b3acbafdd6 100644
--- a/processor/resourcedetectionprocessor/internal/gcp/gcp.go
+++ b/processor/resourcedetectionprocessor/internal/gcp/gcp.go
@@ -66,7 +66,6 @@ func (d *detector) Detect(context.Context) (resource pcommon.Resource, schemaURL
 		b.addZoneOrRegion(d.detector.GKEAvailabilityZoneOrRegion)
 		b.add(conventions.AttributeK8SClusterName, d.detector.GKEClusterName)
 		b.add(conventions.AttributeHostID, d.detector.GKEHostID)
-		b.add(conventions.AttributeHostName, d.detector.GKEHostName)
 	case gcp.CloudRun:
 		b.attrs.InsertString(conventions.AttributeCloudPlatform, conventions.AttributeCloudPlatformGCPCloudRun)
 		b.add(conventions.AttributeFaaSName, d.detector.FaaSName)
diff --git a/processor/resourcedetectionprocessor/internal/gcp/gcp_test.go b/processor/resourcedetectionprocessor/internal/gcp/gcp_test.go
index 4d52aa88f4a05..284fc1503b6da 100644
--- a/processor/resourcedetectionprocessor/internal/gcp/gcp_test.go
+++ b/processor/resourcedetectionprocessor/internal/gcp/gcp_test.go
@@ -46,7 +46,6 @@ func TestDetect(t *testing.T) {
 				projectID:           "my-project",
 				cloudPlatform:       gcp.GKE,
 				gkeHostID:           "1472385723456792345",
-				gkeHostName:         "my-gke-node-1234",
 				gkeClusterName:      "my-cluster",
 				gkeAvailabilityZone: "us-central1-c",
 			}},
@@ -57,7 +56,6 @@ func TestDetect(t *testing.T) {
 				conventions.AttributeK8SClusterName:        "my-cluster",
 				conventions.AttributeCloudAvailabilityZone: "us-central1-c",
 				conventions.AttributeHostID:                "1472385723456792345",
-				conventions.AttributeHostName:              "my-gke-node-1234",
 			}),
 		},
 		{
@@ -66,7 +64,6 @@ func TestDetect(t *testing.T) {
 				projectID:      "my-project",
 				cloudPlatform:  gcp.GKE,
 				gkeHostID:      "1472385723456792345",
-				gkeHostName:    "my-gke-node-1234",
 				gkeClusterName: "my-cluster",
 				gkeRegion:      "us-central1",
 			}},
@@ -77,7 +74,6 @@ func TestDetect(t *testing.T) {
 				conventions.AttributeK8SClusterName: "my-cluster",
 				conventions.AttributeCloudRegion:    "us-central1",
 				conventions.AttributeHostID:         "1472385723456792345",
-				conventions.AttributeHostName:       "my-gke-node-1234",
 			}),
 		},
 		{
@@ -210,7 +206,6 @@ type fakeGCPDetector struct {
 	gkeRegion                 string
 	gkeClusterName            string
 	gkeHostID                 string
-	gkeHostName               string
 	faaSName                  string
 	faaSVersion               string
 	faaSID                    string
@@ -262,13 +257,6 @@ func (f *fakeGCPDetector) GKEHostID() (string, error) {
 	return f.gkeHostID, nil
 }
 
-func (f *fakeGCPDetector) GKEHostName() (string, error) {
-	if f.err != nil {
-		return "", f.err
-	}
-	return f.gkeHostName, nil
-}
-
 func (f *fakeGCPDetector) FaaSName() (string, error) {
 	if f.err != nil {
 		return "", f.err
diff --git a/processor/resourcedetectionprocessor/internal/gcp/types.go b/processor/resourcedetectionprocessor/internal/gcp/types.go
index 4f55402f8e122..8a6f5cd4bef91 100644
--- a/processor/resourcedetectionprocessor/internal/gcp/types.go
+++ b/processor/resourcedetectionprocessor/internal/gcp/types.go
@@ -26,7 +26,6 @@ type gcpDetector interface {
 	GKEAvailabilityZoneOrRegion() (string, gcp.LocationType, error)
 	GKEClusterName() (string, error)
 	GKEHostID() (string, error)
-	GKEHostName() (string, error)
 	FaaSName() (string, error)
 	FaaSVersion() (string, error)
 	FaaSID() (string, error)