diff --git a/x-pack/plugins/observability_onboarding/public/components/app/custom_logs/install_elastic_agent.tsx b/x-pack/plugins/observability_onboarding/public/components/app/custom_logs/install_elastic_agent.tsx
index 5b6db7f900b79..922736ea107e5 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugins/observability_onboarding/public/components/app/custom_logs/install_elastic_agent.tsx
+++ b/x-pack/plugins/observability_onboarding/public/components/app/custom_logs/install_elastic_agent.tsx
@@ -41,6 +41,8 @@ import { BackButton } from './back_button';
 import { WindowsInstallStep } from '../../shared/windows_install_step';
 import { TroubleshootingLink } from '../../shared/troubleshooting_link';
 
+const defaultDatasetName = '';
+
 export function InstallElasticAgent() {
   const {
     services: { share },
@@ -63,7 +65,8 @@ export function InstallElasticAgent() {
     useState<ElasticAgentPlatform>('linux-tar');
 
   const enforcedDatasetName =
-    (integration === dataset ? dataset : `${integration}.${dataset}`) || '';
+    (integration === dataset ? dataset : `${integration}.${dataset}`) ??
+    defaultDatasetName;
 
   async function onContinue() {
     await singleDatasetLocator!.navigate({
@@ -109,11 +112,15 @@ export function InstallElasticAgent() {
         customConfigurations,
         logFilePaths,
       } = getState();
-      if (!hasAlreadySavedFlow(getState()) && monitoringRole?.hasPrivileges) {
+      if (
+        !hasAlreadySavedFlow(getState()) &&
+        monitoringRole?.hasPrivileges &&
+        datasetName
+      ) {
         return callApi('POST /internal/observability_onboarding/logs/flow', {
           params: {
             body: {
-              name: datasetName || '',
+              name: datasetName,
               type: 'logFiles',
               state: {
                 datasetName,
diff --git a/x-pack/plugins/observability_onboarding/public/index.ts b/x-pack/plugins/observability_onboarding/public/index.ts
index 2b8271bb5c8ed..9454626e80dc8 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugins/observability_onboarding/public/index.ts
+++ b/x-pack/plugins/observability_onboarding/public/index.ts
@@ -17,9 +17,6 @@ import {
   ObservabilityOnboardingPluginStart,
 } from './plugin';
 
-export type { OBSERVABILITY_ONBOARDING_LOCATOR } from './locators/onboarding_locator/locator_definition';
-export type { ObservabilityOnboardingLocatorParams } from './locators/onboarding_locator/types';
-
 export interface ConfigSchema {
   ui: {
     enabled: boolean;
diff --git a/x-pack/plugins/observability_onboarding/public/locators/onboarding_locator/get_location.ts b/x-pack/plugins/observability_onboarding/public/locators/onboarding_locator/get_location.ts
index 93bb3861740cd..9ebd263847f36 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugins/observability_onboarding/public/locators/onboarding_locator/get_location.ts
+++ b/x-pack/plugins/observability_onboarding/public/locators/onboarding_locator/get_location.ts
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
  * 2.0.
  */
 
-import { ObservabilityOnboardingLocatorParams } from './types';
+import type { ObservabilityOnboardingLocatorParams } from '@kbn/deeplinks-observability/locators';
 import { PLUGIN_ID } from '../../../common';
 
 export function getLocation(params: ObservabilityOnboardingLocatorParams) {