diff --git a/cluster/addons/fluentd-gcp/fluentd-gcp-ds.yaml b/cluster/addons/fluentd-gcp/fluentd-gcp-ds.yaml
index 5e9e7b43cdd..1844037ad8b 100644
--- a/cluster/addons/fluentd-gcp/fluentd-gcp-ds.yaml
+++ b/cluster/addons/fluentd-gcp/fluentd-gcp-ds.yaml
@@ -42,6 +42,25 @@ spec:
           readOnly: true
         - name: libsystemddir
           mountPath: /host/lib
+        # Liveness probe is aimed to help in situarions where fluentd
+        # silently hangs for no apparent reasons until manual restart.
+        # The idea of this probe is that if fluentd is not queueing or
+        # flushing chunks for 5 minutes, something is not right. If
+        # you want to change the fluentd configuration, reducing amount of
+        # logs fluentd collects, consider changing the threshold or turning
+        # liveness probe off completely.
+        livenessProbe:
+          initialDelaySeconds: 600
+          periodSeconds: 60
+          exec:
+            command:
+            - '/bin/sh'
+            - '-c'
+            - >
+              LIVENESS_THRESHOLD_SECONDS=${LIVENESS_THRESHOLD_SECONDS:-600};
+              LAST_MODIFIED_DATE=`stat /var/log/fluentd-buffers | grep Modify | sed -r "s/Modify: (.*)/\1/"`;
+              LAST_MODIFIED_TIMESTAMP=`date -d "$LAST_MODIFIED_DATE" +%s`;
+              if [ `date +%s` -gt `expr $LAST_MODIFIED_TIMESTAMP + $LIVENESS_THRESHOLD_SECONDS` ]; then exit 1; fi;
       nodeSelector:
         alpha.kubernetes.io/fluentd-ds-ready: "true"
       terminationGracePeriodSeconds: 30
diff --git a/cluster/saltbase/salt/fluentd-gcp/fluentd-gcp.yaml b/cluster/saltbase/salt/fluentd-gcp/fluentd-gcp.yaml
index a9dce098378..db0ff46cc81 100644
--- a/cluster/saltbase/salt/fluentd-gcp/fluentd-gcp.yaml
+++ b/cluster/saltbase/salt/fluentd-gcp/fluentd-gcp.yaml
@@ -36,6 +36,25 @@ spec:
       readOnly: true
     - name: libsystemddir
       mountPath: /host/lib
+    # Liveness probe is aimed to help in situarions where fluentd
+    # silently hangs for no apparent reasons until manual restart.
+    # The idea of this probe is that if fluentd is not queueing or
+    # flushing chunks for 5 minutes, something is not right. If
+    # you want to change the fluentd configuration, reducing amount of
+    # logs fluentd collects, consider changing the threshold or turning
+    # liveness probe off completely.
+    livenessProbe:
+      initialDelaySeconds: 600
+      periodSeconds: 60
+      exec:
+        command:
+        - '/bin/sh'
+        - '-c'
+        - >
+          LIVENESS_THRESHOLD_SECONDS=${LIVENESS_THRESHOLD_SECONDS:-600};
+          LAST_MODIFIED_DATE=`stat /var/log/fluentd-buffers | grep Modify | sed -r "s/Modify: (.*)/\1/"`;
+          LAST_MODIFIED_TIMESTAMP=`date -d "$LAST_MODIFIED_DATE" +%s`;
+          if [ `date +%s` -gt `expr $LAST_MODIFIED_TIMESTAMP + $LIVENESS_THRESHOLD_SECONDS` ]; then exit 1; fi;
   terminationGracePeriodSeconds: 30
   volumes:
   - name: varlog