diff --git a/.chloggen/update-nodejs.yaml b/.chloggen/update-nodejs.yaml
index a31613a578..a2e01544c7 100644
--- a/.chloggen/update-nodejs.yaml
+++ b/.chloggen/update-nodejs.yaml
@@ -3,9 +3,9 @@ change_type: enhancement
 # The name of the component, or a single word describing the area of concern, (e.g. agent, clusterReceiver, gateway, operator, chart, other)
 component: operator
 # A brief description of the change. Surround your text with quotes ("") if it needs to start with a backtick (`).
-note: Bump nodejs to v2.15.0 in helm-charts/splunk-otel-collector/values.yaml
+note: Bump nodejs to v3.0.0-rc1 in helm-charts/splunk-otel-collector/values.yaml
 # One or more tracking issues related to the change
-issues: [1558]
+issues: [1558, 1606]
 # (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.
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 82eaaa6974..b345738601 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
@@ -61,10 +61,10 @@ spec:
       - name: OTEL_RESOURCE_ATTRIBUTES
         value: splunk.zc.method=autoinstrumentation-apache-httpd:1.0.4
   nodejs:
-    image: ghcr.io/signalfx/splunk-otel-js/splunk-otel-js:v2.15.0
+    image: ghcr.io/signalfx/splunk-otel-js/splunk-otel-js:v3.0.0-rc1
     env:
       - name: OTEL_RESOURCE_ATTRIBUTES
-        value: splunk.zc.method=splunk-otel-js:v2.15.0
+        value: splunk.zc.method=splunk-otel-js:v3.0.0-rc1
   python:
     image: ghcr.io/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-operator/autoinstrumentation-python:0.44b0
     env:
diff --git a/helm-charts/splunk-otel-collector/values.yaml b/helm-charts/splunk-otel-collector/values.yaml
index 1b3580e96d..d507fb117f 100644
--- a/helm-charts/splunk-otel-collector/values.yaml
+++ b/helm-charts/splunk-otel-collector/values.yaml
@@ -1236,7 +1236,7 @@ instrumentation:
     #     value: java_value
   nodejs:
     repository: ghcr.io/signalfx/splunk-otel-js/splunk-otel-js
-    tag: v2.15.0
+    tag: v3.0.0-rc1
     # env:
     #   - name: NODEJS_ENV_VAR
     #     value: nodejs_value