diff --git a/cluster/addons/fluentd-elasticsearch/fluentd-es-configmap.yaml b/cluster/addons/fluentd-elasticsearch/fluentd-es-configmap.yaml
index cbd8cf624c9..79d554a36d9 100644
--- a/cluster/addons/fluentd-elasticsearch/fluentd-es-configmap.yaml
+++ b/cluster/addons/fluentd-elasticsearch/fluentd-es-configmap.yaml
@@ -473,7 +473,7 @@ data:
         retry_forever
         retry_max_interval 30
         chunk_limit_size 2M
-        total_limit_size 2G
+        total_limit_size 500M
         overflow_action block
       </buffer>
     </match>