diff --git a/cluster/saltbase/salt/fluentd-es/fluentd-es.yaml b/cluster/saltbase/salt/fluentd-es/fluentd-es.yaml
index a2075fd9278..135efc80c9b 100644
--- a/cluster/saltbase/salt/fluentd-es/fluentd-es.yaml
+++ b/cluster/saltbase/salt/fluentd-es/fluentd-es.yaml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ metadata:
 spec:
   containers:
   - name: fluentd-elasticsearch
-    image: gcr.io/google_containers/fluentd-elasticsearch:1.8
+    image: gcr.io/google_containers/fluentd-elasticsearch:1.9
     resources:
       limits:
         cpu: 100m