diff --git a/public/app/features/explore/Logs/LogsMetaRow.tsx b/public/app/features/explore/Logs/LogsMetaRow.tsx
index 1ed09165690..8e4f4a8b5fc 100644
--- a/public/app/features/explore/Logs/LogsMetaRow.tsx
+++ b/public/app/features/explore/Logs/LogsMetaRow.tsx
@@ -1,16 +1,7 @@
 import { css } from '@emotion/css';
-import { memo } from 'react';
+import { memo, useMemo } from 'react';
 
-import {
-  LogsDedupStrategy,
-  LogsMetaItem,
-  LogsMetaKind,
-  LogRowModel,
-  CoreApp,
-  Labels,
-  store,
-  shallowCompare,
-} from '@grafana/data';
+import { LogsDedupStrategy, LogsMetaItem, LogsMetaKind, LogRowModel, CoreApp, Labels, store } from '@grafana/data';
 import { Trans, t } from '@grafana/i18n';
 import { config, reportInteraction } from '@grafana/runtime';
 import { Button, Dropdown, Menu, ToolbarButton, useStyles2 } from '@grafana/ui';
@@ -58,6 +49,14 @@ export const LogsMetaRow = memo(
   }: Props) => {
     const style = useStyles2(getStyles);
 
+    // Filter out default fields from displayedFields to show only user-added fields
+    const nonDefaultFields = useMemo(() => {
+      if (!displayedFields?.length || !defaultDisplayedFields?.length) {
+        return [];
+      }
+      return displayedFields.filter((field) => !defaultDisplayedFields.includes(field));
+    }, [displayedFields, defaultDisplayedFields]);
+
     const logsMetaItem: Array<LogsMetaItem | MetaItemProps> = [...meta];
 
     // Add deduplication info
@@ -69,16 +68,12 @@ export const LogsMetaRow = memo(
       });
     }
 
-    // Add detected fields info
-    if (
-      visualisationType === 'logs' &&
-      displayedFields?.length > 0 &&
-      shallowCompare(displayedFields, defaultDisplayedFields) === false
-    ) {
+    // Add detected fields info - only show when user has added fields beyond defaults
+    if (visualisationType === 'logs' && nonDefaultFields.length > 0) {
       logsMetaItem.push(
         {
           label: t('explore.logs-meta-row.label.showing-only-selected-fields', 'Showing only selected fields'),
-          value: <LogLabelsList labels={displayedFields} />,
+          value: <LogLabelsList labels={nonDefaultFields} />,
         },
         {
           label: '',
diff --git a/public/app/features/logs/components/panel/LogListContext.tsx b/public/app/features/logs/components/panel/LogListContext.tsx
index 6a4c33dc22f..44712978fe1 100644
--- a/public/app/features/logs/components/panel/LogListContext.tsx
+++ b/public/app/features/logs/components/panel/LogListContext.tsx
@@ -302,10 +302,8 @@ export const LogListContextProvider = ({
     // 3. Always add LOG_LINE_BODY
     orderedFields.push(LOG_LINE_BODY_FIELD_NAME);
 
-    // 4. Add OTEL_LOG_ATTRIBUTES if it's in OTel fields
-    if (otelDisplayedFields.includes(OTEL_LOG_LINE_ATTRIBUTES_FIELD_NAME)) {
-      orderedFields.push(OTEL_LOG_LINE_ATTRIBUTES_FIELD_NAME);
-    }
+    // 4. Always add OTEL_LOG_ATTRIBUTES
+    orderedFields.push(OTEL_LOG_LINE_ATTRIBUTES_FIELD_NAME);
 
     // 5. Add any other OTel fields that aren't already included
     otelDisplayedFields.forEach((field) => {
@@ -321,12 +319,12 @@ export const LogListContextProvider = ({
     return orderedFields;
   }, [tableDefaultFields, otelDisplayedFields]);
 
-  // OTel displayed fields
+  // Pass default displayed fields (table defaults + OTel defaults) to parent
   useEffect(() => {
-    if (config.featureToggles.otelLogsFormatting && showLogAttributes !== false) {
-      onLogOptionsChange?.('defaultDisplayedFields', otelDisplayedFields);
+    if (defaultDisplayedFields.length > 0) {
+      onLogOptionsChange?.('defaultDisplayedFields', defaultDisplayedFields);
     }
-  }, [onLogOptionsChange, otelDisplayedFields, showLogAttributes]);
+  }, [onLogOptionsChange, defaultDisplayedFields]);
 
   // Set default displayed fields (table defaults + OTel defaults) when displayedFields is empty or missing table defaults
   useEffect(() => {