diff --git a/cmd/launcher/launcher.go b/cmd/launcher/launcher.go
index 954f777b0..ca2fc2154 100644
--- a/cmd/launcher/launcher.go
+++ b/cmd/launcher/launcher.go
@@ -194,6 +194,13 @@ func runLauncher(ctx context.Context, cancel func(), multiSlogger, systemMultiSl
 	flagController := flags.NewFlagController(slogger, stores[storage.AgentFlagsStore], fcOpts...)
 	k := knapsack.New(stores, flagController, db, multiSlogger, systemMultiSlogger)
 
+	// Generate a new run ID
+	newRunID := k.GetRunID()
+
+	// Apply the run ID to both logger and slogger
+	logger = log.With(logger, "run_id", newRunID)
+	slogger = slogger.With("run_id", newRunID)
+
 	// start counting uptime
 	processStartTime := time.Now().UTC()
 
diff --git a/ee/agent/knapsack/knapsack.go b/ee/agent/knapsack/knapsack.go
index bd54a14f2..dc66c072c 100644
--- a/ee/agent/knapsack/knapsack.go
+++ b/ee/agent/knapsack/knapsack.go
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ import (
 
 	"log/slog"
 
+	"github.com/kolide/kit/ulid"
 	"github.com/kolide/launcher/ee/agent/storage"
 	"github.com/kolide/launcher/ee/agent/types"
 	"github.com/kolide/launcher/ee/tuf"
@@ -16,6 +17,9 @@ import (
 	"go.etcd.io/bbolt"
 )
 
+// Package-level runID variable
+var runID string
+
 // type alias Flags, so that we can embed it inside knapsack, as `flags` and not `Flags`
 type flags types.Flags
 
@@ -59,6 +63,16 @@ func New(stores map[storage.Store]types.KVStore, flags types.Flags, db *bbolt.DB
 	return k
 }
 
+// NewRunID sets the run ID in the knapsack
+func (k *knapsack) GetRunID() string {
+	if runID == "" {
+		runID = ulid.New()
+		k.slogger.Logger = k.slogger.Logger.With("run_id", runID)
+		k.systemSlogger.Logger = k.systemSlogger.Logger.With("run_id", runID)
+	}
+	return runID
+}
+
 // Logging interface methods
 func (k *knapsack) Slogger() *slog.Logger {
 	return k.slogger.Logger
diff --git a/pkg/log/multislogger/multislogger.go b/pkg/log/multislogger/multislogger.go
index fa5a7a3a3..c064f0124 100644
--- a/pkg/log/multislogger/multislogger.go
+++ b/pkg/log/multislogger/multislogger.go
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ import (
 	"log/slog"
 	"os"
 
-	"github.com/kolide/kit/ulid"
 	slogmulti "github.com/samber/slog-multi"
 )
 
@@ -34,8 +33,7 @@ var ctxValueKeysToAdd = []contextKey{
 
 type MultiSlogger struct {
 	*slog.Logger
-	handlers      []slog.Handler
-	launcherRunId string
+	handlers []slog.Handler
 }
 
 // New creates a new multislogger if no handlers are passed in, it will
@@ -43,8 +41,7 @@ type MultiSlogger struct {
 func New(h ...slog.Handler) *MultiSlogger {
 	ms := &MultiSlogger{
 		// setting to fanout with no handlers is noop
-		Logger:        slog.New(slogmulti.Fanout()),
-		launcherRunId: ulid.New(),
+		Logger: slog.New(slogmulti.Fanout()),
 	}
 
 	ms.AddHandler(h...)
@@ -69,7 +66,7 @@ func (m *MultiSlogger) AddHandler(handler ...slog.Handler) {
 			Pipe(slogmulti.NewHandleInlineMiddleware(utcTimeMiddleware)).
 			Pipe(slogmulti.NewHandleInlineMiddleware(ctxValuesMiddleWare)).
 			Handler(slogmulti.Fanout(m.handlers...)),
-	).With("launcher_run_id", m.launcherRunId)
+	)
 }
 
 func utcTimeMiddleware(ctx context.Context, record slog.Record, next func(context.Context, slog.Record) error) error {