diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 16478d2f2..82c170d79 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -27,3 +27,4 @@ mongocryptd.pid
 .nvm
 snapshot.blob
 .logs/*
+!.logs/empty.xml
diff --git a/.logs/empty.xml b/.logs/empty.xml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..ca36217f6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.logs/empty.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+<!-- An empty test suite which is needed as not all tasks produce XUnit results and the current Evergreen setup always expects some file to be uploaded -->
+<testsuite name="empty" tests="0" failures="0" errors="0" skipped="0" timestamp="Fri, 18 Oct 2024 09:21:06 GMT" time="8.907">
+</testsuite>
\ No newline at end of file