diff --git a/src/sinks/gcp_chronicle/chronicle_unstructured.rs b/src/sinks/gcp_chronicle/chronicle_unstructured.rs
index aba02d742452e..7ca16fe88385c 100644
--- a/src/sinks/gcp_chronicle/chronicle_unstructured.rs
+++ b/src/sinks/gcp_chronicle/chronicle_unstructured.rs
@@ -5,7 +5,8 @@ use bytes::{Bytes, BytesMut};
 
 use futures_util::{future::BoxFuture, task::Poll};
 use goauth::scopes::Scope;
-use http::{header::HeaderValue, Request, StatusCode, Uri};
+use http::header::{self, HeaderName, HeaderValue};
+use http::{Request, StatusCode, Uri};
 use hyper::Body;
 use indoc::indoc;
 use serde::Serialize;
@@ -318,6 +319,7 @@ impl ChronicleUnstructuredConfig {
 pub struct ChronicleRequest {
     pub body: Bytes,
     pub finalizers: EventFinalizers,
+    pub headers: HashMap<HeaderName, HeaderValue>,
     metadata: RequestMetadata,
 }
 
@@ -471,7 +473,33 @@ impl RequestBuilder<(ChroniclePartitionKey, Vec<Event>)> for ChronicleRequestBui
         metadata: RequestMetadata,
         payload: EncodeResult<Self::Payload>,
     ) -> Self::Request {
-        ChronicleRequest {
+        let mut headers = HashMap::new();
+        headers.insert(
+            header::CONTENT_TYPE,
+            HeaderValue::from_static("application/json"),
+        );
+
+        match payload.compressed_byte_size {
+            Some(compressed_byte_size) => {
+                headers.insert(
+                    header::CONTENT_LENGTH,
+                    HeaderValue::from_str(&compressed_byte_size.to_string()).unwrap(),
+                );
+                headers.insert(
+                    header::CONTENT_ENCODING,
+                    HeaderValue::from_str(&self.compression.content_encoding().unwrap()).unwrap(),
+                );
+            }
+            None => {
+                headers.insert(
+                    header::CONTENT_LENGTH,
+                    HeaderValue::from_str(&payload.uncompressed_byte_size.to_string()).unwrap(),
+                );
+            }
+        }
+
+        return ChronicleRequest {
+            headers: headers,
             body: payload.into_payload().bytes,
             finalizers,
             metadata,
@@ -547,18 +575,13 @@ impl Service<ChronicleRequest> for ChronicleService {
 
     fn call(&mut self, request: ChronicleRequest) -> Self::Future {
         let mut builder = Request::post(&self.base_url);
-        let headers = builder.headers_mut().unwrap();
-        headers.insert(
-            "content-type",
-            HeaderValue::from_str("application/json").unwrap(),
-        );
-        headers.insert(
-            "content-length",
-            HeaderValue::from_str(&request.body.len().to_string()).unwrap(),
-        );
-
         let metadata = request.get_metadata().clone();
 
+        let headers = builder.headers_mut().unwrap();
+        for (name, value) in request.headers {
+            headers.insert(name, value);
+        }
+
         let mut http_request = builder.body(Body::from(request.body)).unwrap();
         self.creds.apply(&mut http_request);