diff --git a/modules/csv/csv.go b/modules/csv/csv.go
index f1ca3b0923029..ad61b81d6995b 100644
--- a/modules/csv/csv.go
+++ b/modules/csv/csv.go
@@ -30,6 +30,8 @@ func CreateReader(input io.Reader, delimiter rune) *stdcsv.Reader {
 		// thus would change `\t\t` to just `\t` or `  ` (two spaces) to just ` ` (single space)
 		rd.TrimLeadingSpace = true
 	}
+	// Don't force validation of every row to have the same number of entries as the first row.
+	rd.FieldsPerRecord = -1
 	return rd
 }
 
diff --git a/modules/csv/csv_test.go b/modules/csv/csv_test.go
index be9fc5f823787..5ea9718466268 100644
--- a/modules/csv/csv_test.go
+++ b/modules/csv/csv_test.go
@@ -94,6 +94,24 @@ j, ,\x20
 			},
 			expectedDelimiter: ',',
 		},
+		// case 3 - every delimiter used, default to comma and handle differing number of fields per record
+		{
+			csv: `col1,col2
+a;b
+c@e
+f	g
+h|i
+jkl`,
+			expectedRows: [][]string{
+				{"col1", "col2"},
+				{"a;b"},
+				{"c@e"},
+				{"f	g"},
+				{"h|i"},
+				{"jkl"},
+			},
+			expectedDelimiter: ',',
+		},
 	}
 
 	for n, c := range cases {
@@ -119,21 +137,6 @@ func TestDetermineDelimiterShortBufferError(t *testing.T) {
 	assert.Nil(t, rd, "CSV reader should be mnil")
 }
 
-func TestDetermineDelimiterReadAllError(t *testing.T) {
-	rd, err := CreateReaderAndDetermineDelimiter(nil, strings.NewReader(`col1,col2
-	a;b
-	c@e
-	f	g
-	h|i
-	jkl`))
-	assert.NoError(t, err, "CreateReaderAndDetermineDelimiter() shouldn't throw error")
-	assert.NotNil(t, rd, "CSV reader should not be mnil")
-	rows, err := rd.ReadAll()
-	assert.Error(t, err, "RaadAll() should throw error")
-	assert.ErrorIs(t, err, csv.ErrFieldCount)
-	assert.Empty(t, rows, "rows should be empty")
-}
-
 func TestDetermineDelimiter(t *testing.T) {
 	cases := []struct {
 		csv               string