diff --git a/common/changes/@microsoft/rush/stdio-blank-summary_2024-10-29-00-31.json b/common/changes/@microsoft/rush/stdio-blank-summary_2024-10-29-00-31.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..baa2f378a5e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/common/changes/@microsoft/rush/stdio-blank-summary_2024-10-29-00-31.json
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+{
+  "changes": [
+    {
+      "packageName": "@microsoft/rush",
+      "comment": "Fix an issue where if an Operation wrote all logs to stdout, then exited with a non-zero exit code, only the non-zero exit code would show up in the summary.",
+      "type": "none"
+    }
+  ],
+  "packageName": "@microsoft/rush"
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/libraries/rush-lib/src/logic/operations/OperationExecutionManager.ts b/libraries/rush-lib/src/logic/operations/OperationExecutionManager.ts
index d564a53eea7..bd54fc9ff81 100644
--- a/libraries/rush-lib/src/logic/operations/OperationExecutionManager.ts
+++ b/libraries/rush-lib/src/logic/operations/OperationExecutionManager.ts
@@ -289,10 +289,12 @@ export class OperationExecutionManager {
     if (message) {
       // This creates the writer, so don't do this until needed
       record.collatedWriter.terminal.writeStderrLine(message);
-      // Ensure that the error message, if present, shows up in the summary
+      // Ensure that the summary isn't blank if we have an error message
+      // If the summary already contains max lines of stderr, this will get dropped, so we hope those lines
+      // are more useful than the final exit code.
       record.stdioSummarizer.writeChunk({
         text: `${message}\n`,
-        kind: TerminalChunkKind.Stderr
+        kind: TerminalChunkKind.Stdout
       });
     }
   }