diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 621cc8a4a1868..93c7978512a80 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -82,6 +82,7 @@
 * [6358](https://github.com/grafana/loki/pull/6358) **taharah**: Fixes sigv4 authentication for the Ruler's remote write configuration by allowing both a global and per tenant configuration.
 * [6152](https://github.com/grafana/loki/pull/6152) **slim-bean**: Fixes unbounded ingester memory growth when live tailing under specific circumstances.
 * [5685](https://github.com/grafana/loki/pull/5685) **chaudum**: Assert that push values tuples consist of string values
+* [6375](https://github.com/grafana/loki/pull/6375) **dannykopping**: Fix bug that prevented users from using the `json` parser after a `line_format` pipeline stage.
 ##### Changes
 * [6042](https://github.com/grafana/loki/pull/6042) **slim-bean**: Add a new configuration to allow fudging of ingested timestamps to guarantee sort order of duplicate timestamps at query time.
 * [6120](https://github.com/grafana/loki/pull/6120) **KMiller-Grafana**: Rename configuration parameter fudge_duplicate_timestamp to be increment_duplicate_timestamp.
diff --git a/pkg/logql/optimize.go b/pkg/logql/optimize.go
index 1bc500d587cad..eefba61e70123 100644
--- a/pkg/logql/optimize.go
+++ b/pkg/logql/optimize.go
@@ -61,6 +61,10 @@ func removeLineformat(expr syntax.SampleExpr) {
 					found = true
 					break
 				}
+				if _, ok := pipelineExpr.MultiStages[j].(*syntax.JSONExpressionParser); ok {
+					found = true
+					break
+				}
 			}
 			if found {
 				// we cannot remove safely the linefmtExpr.
diff --git a/pkg/logql/optimize_test.go b/pkg/logql/optimize_test.go
index d703064e7f473..b4de878976ad2 100644
--- a/pkg/logql/optimize_test.go
+++ b/pkg/logql/optimize_test.go
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ func Test_optimizeSampleExpr(t *testing.T) {
 		{`sum by(name)(bytes_over_time({region="us-east1"} | line_format "something else"[5m]))`, `sum by(name)(bytes_over_time({region="us-east1"} | line_format "something else"[5m]))`},
 		{`sum by(name)(rate({region="us-east1"} | json | line_format "something else" |= "something"[5m]))`, `sum by(name)(rate({region="us-east1"} | json | line_format "something else" |= "something"[5m]))`},
 		{`sum by(name)(rate({region="us-east1"} | json | line_format "something else" | logfmt[5m]))`, `sum by(name)(rate({region="us-east1"} | json | line_format "something else" | logfmt[5m]))`},
+		{`sum by(name)(count_over_time({region="us-east1"} | line_format "{{ .message }}" | json foo="bar"[5m]))`, `sum by(name)(count_over_time({region="us-east1"} | line_format "{{ .message }}" | json foo="bar"[5m]))`},
 
 		// remove line_format that is not required.
 		{`sum by(name)(rate({region="us-east1"} | line_format "something else"[5m]))`, `sum by(name)(rate({region="us-east1"}[5m]))`},