diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index a880196b8..252268149 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ value when showing an error state.
 error encountered during creation or update.
 * Two-factor tokens generated when a company name has a space in it will now properly be parsed on iOS authenticator devices.
 * Fixed 500 error when trying to request subuser's from a server in the application API.
+* Creating a node allocation via the API no longer requires an alias field be passed through in the request.
 
 ### Added
 * Server listing view now displays the total used disk space for each server.
diff --git a/app/Http/Requests/Api/Application/Allocations/StoreAllocationRequest.php b/app/Http/Requests/Api/Application/Allocations/StoreAllocationRequest.php
index 2cf2ae004..f795a114e 100644
--- a/app/Http/Requests/Api/Application/Allocations/StoreAllocationRequest.php
+++ b/app/Http/Requests/Api/Application/Allocations/StoreAllocationRequest.php
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ class StoreAllocationRequest extends ApplicationApiRequest
         return [
             'allocation_ip' => $data['ip'],
             'allocation_ports' => $data['ports'],
-            'allocation_alias' => $data['alias'],
+            'allocation_alias' => $data['alias'] ?? null,
         ];
     }
 }