diff --git a/cluster/addons/fluentd-elasticsearch/fluentd-es-image/Dockerfile b/cluster/addons/fluentd-elasticsearch/fluentd-es-image/Dockerfile
index 6bd50d7d7fe..0326c5846b0 100644
--- a/cluster/addons/fluentd-elasticsearch/fluentd-es-image/Dockerfile
+++ b/cluster/addons/fluentd-elasticsearch/fluentd-es-image/Dockerfile
@@ -34,4 +34,4 @@ RUN /usr/sbin/td-agent-gem install fluent-plugin-elasticsearch
 COPY td-agent.conf /etc/td-agent/td-agent.conf
 
 # Run the Fluentd service.
-CMD /usr/sbin/td-agent -qq > /var/log/td-agent/td-agent.log
+CMD /usr/sbin/td-agent "$FLUENTD_ARGS" > /var/log/td-agent/td-agent.log
diff --git a/cluster/addons/fluentd-elasticsearch/fluentd-es-image/Makefile b/cluster/addons/fluentd-elasticsearch/fluentd-es-image/Makefile
index 9b3f1123e43..87d0538f082 100644
--- a/cluster/addons/fluentd-elasticsearch/fluentd-es-image/Makefile
+++ b/cluster/addons/fluentd-elasticsearch/fluentd-es-image/Makefile
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 .PHONY:	build push
 
-TAG = 1.1
+TAG = 1.2
 
 build:	
 	sudo docker build -t kubernetes/fluentd-elasticsearch:$(TAG) .
diff --git a/cluster/saltbase/salt/fluentd-es/fluentd-es.manifest b/cluster/saltbase/salt/fluentd-es/fluentd-es.manifest
index 5ecacc62575..6d994954539 100644
--- a/cluster/saltbase/salt/fluentd-es/fluentd-es.manifest
+++ b/cluster/saltbase/salt/fluentd-es/fluentd-es.manifest
@@ -2,7 +2,10 @@ version: v1beta2
 id: fluentd-to-elasticsearch
 containers:
   - name: fluentd-es
-    image: kubernetes/fluentd-elasticsearch:1.1
+    image: kubernetes/fluentd-elasticsearch:1.2
+    env:
+      - name: FLUENTD_ARGS
+        value: -qq
     volumeMounts:
       - name: containers
         mountPath: /var/lib/docker/containers