diff --git a/build/lib/release.sh b/build/lib/release.sh
index b012fbdecc..5cf716e10e 100644
--- a/build/lib/release.sh
+++ b/build/lib/release.sh
@@ -362,7 +362,6 @@ function kube::release::package_kube_manifests_tarball() {
   rm -rf "${release_stage}"
 
   mkdir -p "${release_stage}"
-  cp "${salt_dir}/fluentd-gcp/fluentd-gcp.yaml" "${release_stage}/"
   cp "${salt_dir}/kube-registry-proxy/kube-registry-proxy.yaml" "${release_stage}/"
   cp "${salt_dir}/kube-proxy/kube-proxy.manifest" "${release_stage}/"
 
diff --git a/cluster/gce/container-linux/configure-helper.sh b/cluster/gce/container-linux/configure-helper.sh
index 0d893622fb..4147270370 100755
--- a/cluster/gce/container-linux/configure-helper.sh
+++ b/cluster/gce/container-linux/configure-helper.sh
@@ -1210,17 +1210,6 @@ function start-kube-addons {
   cp "${src_dir}/kube-addon-manager.yaml" /etc/kubernetes/manifests
 }
 
-# Starts a fluentd static pod for logging for gcp in case master is not registered.
-function start-fluentd-static-pod {
-  echo "Start fluentd pod"
-  if [[ "${ENABLE_NODE_LOGGING:-}" == "true" ]] && \
-     [[ "${LOGGING_DESTINATION:-}" == "gcp" ]] && \
-     [[ "${KUBERNETES_MASTER:-}" == "true" ]] && \
-     [[ "${REGISTER_MASTER_KUBELET:-false}" == "false" ]]; then
-    cp "${KUBE_HOME}/kube-manifests/kubernetes/fluentd-gcp.yaml" /etc/kubernetes/manifests/
-  fi
-}
-
 # Starts an image-puller - used in test clusters.
 function start-image-puller {
   echo "Start image-puller"
@@ -1383,7 +1372,6 @@ if [[ "${KUBERNETES_MASTER:-}" == "true" ]]; then
   start-cluster-autoscaler
   start-lb-controller
   start-rescheduler
-  start-fluentd-static-pod
 else
   start-kube-proxy
   # Kube-registry-proxy.
diff --git a/cluster/gce/gci/configure-helper.sh b/cluster/gce/gci/configure-helper.sh
index 2d95bc5a35..b43bdb71fb 100644
--- a/cluster/gce/gci/configure-helper.sh
+++ b/cluster/gce/gci/configure-helper.sh
@@ -1426,17 +1426,6 @@ function start-kube-addons {
   cp "${src_dir}/kube-addon-manager.yaml" /etc/kubernetes/manifests
 }
 
-# Starts a fluentd static pod for logging for gcp in case master is not registered.
-function start-fluentd-static-pod {
-  echo "Start fluentd pod"
-  if [[ "${ENABLE_NODE_LOGGING:-}" == "true" ]] && \
-     [[ "${LOGGING_DESTINATION:-}" == "gcp" ]] && \
-     [[ "${KUBERNETES_MASTER:-}" == "true" ]] && \
-     [[ "${REGISTER_MASTER_KUBELET:-false}" == "false" ]]; then
-    cp "${KUBE_HOME}/kube-manifests/kubernetes/fluentd-gcp.yaml" /etc/kubernetes/manifests/
-  fi
-}
-
 # Starts an image-puller - used in test clusters.
 function start-image-puller {
   echo "Start image-puller"
@@ -1585,7 +1574,6 @@ if [[ "${KUBERNETES_MASTER:-}" == "true" ]]; then
   start-cluster-autoscaler
   start-lb-controller
   start-rescheduler
-  start-fluentd-static-pod
 else
   start-kube-proxy
   # Kube-registry-proxy.
diff --git a/cluster/saltbase/BUILD b/cluster/saltbase/BUILD
index 2ffcf0824b..4de5819e2b 100644
--- a/cluster/saltbase/BUILD
+++ b/cluster/saltbase/BUILD
@@ -50,7 +50,6 @@ pkg_tar(
 pkg_tar(
     name = "salt-manifests",
     files = [
-        "salt/fluentd-gcp/fluentd-gcp.yaml",
         "salt/kube-proxy/kube-proxy.manifest",
         "salt/kube-registry-proxy/kube-registry-proxy.yaml",
     ],
diff --git a/cluster/saltbase/salt/fluentd-gcp/OWNERS b/cluster/saltbase/salt/fluentd-gcp/OWNERS
deleted file mode 100644
index 14bb6e15eb..0000000000
--- a/cluster/saltbase/salt/fluentd-gcp/OWNERS
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-approvers:
-- crassirostris
-- piosz
-reviewers:
-- crassirostris
-- piosz
diff --git a/cluster/saltbase/salt/fluentd-gcp/fluentd-gcp.yaml b/cluster/saltbase/salt/fluentd-gcp/fluentd-gcp.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index d6488a42bb..0000000000
--- a/cluster/saltbase/salt/fluentd-gcp/fluentd-gcp.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,479 +0,0 @@
-apiVersion: v1
-kind: Pod
-metadata:
-  name: fluentd-cloud-logging
-  namespace: kube-system
-  labels:
-    k8s-app: fluentd-logging
-  # This annotation ensures that fluentd does not get evicted if the node
-  # supports critical pod annotation based priority scheme.
-  # Note that this does not guarantee admission on the nodes (#40573).
-  annotations:
-    scheduler.alpha.kubernetes.io/critical-pod: ''
-spec:
-  dnsPolicy: Default
-  containers:
-  - name: fluentd-cloud-logging
-    image: gcr.io/google_containers/fluentd-gcp:2.0.2
-    # If fluentd consumes its own logs, the following situation may happen:
-    # fluentd fails to send a chunk to the server => writes it to the log =>
-    # tries to send this message to the server => fails to send a chunk and so on.
-    # Writing to a file, which is not exported to the back-end prevents it.
-    # It also allows to increase the fluentd verbosity by default.
-    command:
-      - '/bin/sh'
-      - '-c'
-      - |-
-        mkdir /etc/fluent/config.d &&
-          echo "$FLUENTD_CONFIG" > /etc/fluent/config.d/main.conf &&
-          /run.sh $FLUENTD_ARGS 2>&1 >>/var/log/fluentd.log
-    env:
-    - name: FLUENTD_ARGS
-      value: --no-supervisor
-    # Keep this config as close as possible to cluster/addons/fluentd-gcp/fluentd-gcp-configmap.yaml
-    # Note that backslashes should be doubled, because this is interpreted as shell variable
-    # TODO(crassirostris): Refactor this
-    - name: FLUENTD_CONFIG
-      value: |-
-        # This configuration file for Fluentd is used
-        # to watch changes to Docker log files that live in the
-        # directory /var/lib/docker/containers/ and are symbolically
-        # linked to from the /var/log/containers directory using names that capture the
-        # pod name and container name. These logs are then submitted to
-        # Google Cloud Logging which assumes the installation of the cloud-logging plug-in.
-        #
-        # Example
-        # =======
-        # A line in the Docker log file might look like this JSON:
-        #
-        # {"log":"2014/09/25 21:15:03 Got request with path wombat\\n",
-        #  "stream":"stderr",
-        #   "time":"2014-09-25T21:15:03.499185026Z"}
-        #
-        # The record reformer is used to write the tag to focus on the pod name
-        # and the Kubernetes container name. For example a Docker container's logs
-        # might be in the directory:
-        #  /var/lib/docker/containers/997599971ee6366d4a5920d25b79286ad45ff37a74494f262e3bc98d909d0a7b
-        # and in the file:
-        #  997599971ee6366d4a5920d25b79286ad45ff37a74494f262e3bc98d909d0a7b-json.log
-        # where 997599971ee6... is the Docker ID of the running container.
-        # The Kubernetes kubelet makes a symbolic link to this file on the host machine
-        # in the /var/log/containers directory which includes the pod name and the Kubernetes
-        # container name:
-        #    synthetic-logger-0.25lps-pod_default-synth-lgr-997599971ee6366d4a5920d25b79286ad45ff37a74494f262e3bc98d909d0a7b.log
-        #    ->
-        #    /var/lib/docker/containers/997599971ee6366d4a5920d25b79286ad45ff37a74494f262e3bc98d909d0a7b/997599971ee6366d4a5920d25b79286ad45ff37a74494f262e3bc98d909d0a7b-json.log
-        # The /var/log directory on the host is mapped to the /var/log directory in the container
-        # running this instance of Fluentd and we end up collecting the file:
-        #   /var/log/containers/synthetic-logger-0.25lps-pod_default-synth-lgr-997599971ee6366d4a5920d25b79286ad45ff37a74494f262e3bc98d909d0a7b.log
-        # This results in the tag:
-        #  var.log.containers.synthetic-logger-0.25lps-pod_default-synth-lgr-997599971ee6366d4a5920d25b79286ad45ff37a74494f262e3bc98d909d0a7b.log
-        # The record reformer is used is discard the var.log.containers prefix and
-        # the Docker container ID suffix and "kubernetes." is pre-pended giving the tag:
-        #   kubernetes.synthetic-logger-0.25lps-pod_default-synth-lgr
-        # Tag is then parsed by google_cloud plugin and translated to the metadata,
-        # visible in the log viewer
-
-        # Example:
-        # {"log":"[info:2016-02-16T16:04:05.930-08:00] Some log text here\\n","stream":"stdout","time":"2016-02-17T00:04:05.931087621Z"}
-        <source>
-          type tail
-          format json
-          time_key time
-          path /var/log/containers/*.log
-          pos_file /var/log/gcp-containers.log.pos
-          time_format %Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S.%N%Z
-          tag reform.*
-          read_from_head true
-        </source>
-
-        <filter reform.**>
-          type parser
-          format /^(?<severity>\\w)(?<time>\\d{4} [^\\s]*)\\s+(?<pid>\\d+)\\s+(?<source>[^ \\]]+)\\] (?<log>.*)/
-          reserve_data true
-          suppress_parse_error_log true
-          key_name log
-        </filter>
-
-        <match reform.**>
-          type record_reformer
-          enable_ruby true
-          tag raw.kubernetes.${tag_suffix[4].split('-')[0..-2].join('-')}
-        </match>
-
-        # Detect exceptions in the log output and forward them as one log entry.
-        <match raw.kubernetes.**>
-          @type copy
-
-          <store>
-            @type prometheus
-
-            <metric>
-              type counter
-              name logging_line_count
-              desc Total number of lines generated by application containers
-              <labels>
-                tag ${tag}
-              </labels>
-            </metric>
-          </store>
-          <store>
-            @type detect_exceptions
-
-            remove_tag_prefix raw
-            message log
-            stream stream
-            multiline_flush_interval 5
-            max_bytes 500000
-            max_lines 1000
-          </store>
-        </match>
-
-        # Example:
-        # 2015-12-21 23:17:22,066 [salt.state       ][INFO    ] Completed state [net.ipv4.ip_forward] at time 23:17:22.066081
-        <source>
-          type tail
-          format /^(?<time>[^ ]* [^ ,]*)[^\\[]*\\[[^\\]]*\\]\\[(?<severity>[^ \\]]*) *\\] (?<message>.*)$/
-          time_format %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S
-          path /var/log/salt/minion
-          pos_file /var/log/gcp-salt.pos
-          tag salt
-        </source>
-
-        # Example:
-        # Dec 21 23:17:22 gke-foo-1-1-4b5cbd14-node-4eoj startupscript: Finished running startup script /var/run/google.startup.script
-        <source>
-          type tail
-          format syslog
-          path /var/log/startupscript.log
-          pos_file /var/log/gcp-startupscript.log.pos
-          tag startupscript
-        </source>
-
-        # Examples:
-        # time="2016-02-04T06:51:03.053580605Z" level=info msg="GET /containers/json"
-        # time="2016-02-04T07:53:57.505612354Z" level=error msg="HTTP Error" err="No such image: -f" statusCode=404
-        <source>
-          type tail
-          format /^time="(?<time>[^)]*)" level=(?<severity>[^ ]*) msg="(?<message>[^"]*)"( err="(?<error>[^"]*)")?( statusCode=($<status_code>\\d+))?/
-          path /var/log/docker.log
-          pos_file /var/log/gcp-docker.log.pos
-          tag docker
-        </source>
-
-        # Example:
-        # 2016/02/04 06:52:38 filePurge: successfully removed file /var/etcd/data/member/wal/00000000000006d0-00000000010a23d1.wal
-        <source>
-          type tail
-          # Not parsing this, because it doesn't have anything particularly useful to
-          # parse out of it (like severities).
-          format none
-          path /var/log/etcd.log
-          pos_file /var/log/gcp-etcd.log.pos
-          tag etcd
-        </source>
-
-        # Multi-line parsing is required for all the kube logs because very large log
-        # statements, such as those that include entire object bodies, get split into
-        # multiple lines by glog.
-
-        # Example:
-        # I0204 07:32:30.020537    3368 server.go:1048] POST /stats/container/: (13.972191ms) 200 [[Go-http-client/1.1] 10.244.1.3:40537]
-        <source>
-          type tail
-          format multiline
-          multiline_flush_interval 5s
-          format_firstline /^\\w\\d{4}/
-          format1 /^(?<severity>\\w)(?<time>\\d{4} [^\\s]*)\\s+(?<pid>\\d+)\\s+(?<source>[^ \\]]+)\\] (?<message>.*)/
-          time_format %m%d %H:%M:%S.%N
-          path /var/log/kubelet.log
-          pos_file /var/log/gcp-kubelet.log.pos
-          tag kubelet
-        </source>
-
-        # Example:
-        # I1118 21:26:53.975789       6 proxier.go:1096] Port "nodePort for kube-system/default-http-backend:http" (:31429/tcp) was open before and is still needed
-        <source>
-          type tail
-          format multiline
-          multiline_flush_interval 5s
-          format_firstline /^\\w\\d{4}/
-          format1 /^(?<severity>\\w)(?<time>\\d{4} [^\\s]*)\\s+(?<pid>\\d+)\\s+(?<source>[^ \\]]+)\\] (?<message>.*)/
-          time_format %m%d %H:%M:%S.%N
-          path /var/log/kube-proxy.log
-          pos_file /var/log/gcp-kube-proxy.log.pos
-          tag kube-proxy
-        </source>
-
-        # Example:
-        # I0204 07:00:19.604280       5 handlers.go:131] GET /api/v1/nodes: (1.624207ms) 200 [[kube-controller-manager/v1.1.3 (linux/amd64) kubernetes/6a81b50] 127.0.0.1:38266]
-        <source>
-          type tail
-          format multiline
-          multiline_flush_interval 5s
-          format_firstline /^\\w\\d{4}/
-          format1 /^(?<severity>\\w)(?<time>\\d{4} [^\\s]*)\\s+(?<pid>\\d+)\\s+(?<source>[^ \\]]+)\\] (?<message>.*)/
-          time_format %m%d %H:%M:%S.%N
-          path /var/log/kube-apiserver.log
-          pos_file /var/log/gcp-kube-apiserver.log.pos
-          tag kube-apiserver
-        </source>
-
-        # Example:
-        # 2017-02-09T00:15:57.992775796Z AUDIT: id="90c73c7c-97d6-4b65-9461-f94606ff825f" ip="104.132.1.72" method="GET" user="kubecfg" as="<self>" asgroups="<lookup>" namespace="default" uri="/api/v1/namespaces/default/pods"
-        # 2017-02-09T00:15:57.993528822Z AUDIT: id="90c73c7c-97d6-4b65-9461-f94606ff825f" response="200"
-        <source>
-          type tail
-          format multiline
-          multiline_flush_interval 5s
-          format_firstline /^\\S+\\s+AUDIT:/
-          # Fields must be explicitly captured by name to be parsed into the record.
-          # Fields may not always be present, and order may change, so this just looks
-          # for a list of key="\\"quoted\\" value" pairs separated by spaces.
-          # Unknown fields are ignored.
-          # Note: We can't separate query/response lines as format1/format2 because
-          #       they don't always come one after the other for a given query.
-          # TODO: Maybe add a JSON output mode to audit log so we can get rid of this?
-          format1 /^(?<time>\\S+) AUDIT:(?: (?:id="(?<id>(?:[^"\\\\]|\\\\.)*)"|ip="(?<ip>(?:[^"\\\\]|\\\\.)*)"|method="(?<method>(?:[^"\\\\]|\\\\.)*)"|user="(?<user>(?:[^"\\\\]|\\\\.)*)"|groups="(?<groups>(?:[^"\\\\]|\\\\.)*)"|as="(?<as>(?:[^"\\\\]|\\\\.)*)"|asgroups="(?<asgroups>(?:[^"\\\\]|\\\\.)*)"|namespace="(?<namespace>(?:[^"\\\\]|\\\\.)*)"|uri="(?<uri>(?:[^"\\\\]|\\\\.)*)"|response="(?<response>(?:[^"\\\\]|\\\\.)*)"|\\w+="(?:[^"\\\\]|\\\\.)*"))*/
-          time_format %FT%T.%L%Z
-          path /var/log/kube-apiserver-audit.log
-          pos_file /var/log/gcp-kube-apiserver-audit.log.pos
-          tag kube-apiserver-audit
-        </source>
-
-        # Example:
-        # I0204 06:55:31.872680       5 servicecontroller.go:277] LB already exists and doesn't need update for service kube-system/kube-ui
-        <source>
-          type tail
-          format multiline
-          multiline_flush_interval 5s
-          format_firstline /^\\w\\d{4}/
-          format1 /^(?<severity>\\w)(?<time>\\d{4} [^\\s]*)\\s+(?<pid>\\d+)\\s+(?<source>[^ \\]]+)\\] (?<message>.*)/
-          time_format %m%d %H:%M:%S.%N
-          path /var/log/kube-controller-manager.log
-          pos_file /var/log/gcp-kube-controller-manager.log.pos
-          tag kube-controller-manager
-        </source>
-
-        # Example:
-        # W0204 06:49:18.239674       7 reflector.go:245] pkg/scheduler/factory/factory.go:193: watch of *api.Service ended with: 401: The event in requested index is outdated and cleared (the requested history has been cleared [2578313/2577886]) [2579312]
-        <source>
-          type tail
-          format multiline
-          multiline_flush_interval 5s
-          format_firstline /^\\w\\d{4}/
-          format1 /^(?<severity>\\w)(?<time>\\d{4} [^\\s]*)\\s+(?<pid>\\d+)\\s+(?<source>[^ \\]]+)\\] (?<message>.*)/
-          time_format %m%d %H:%M:%S.%N
-          path /var/log/kube-scheduler.log
-          pos_file /var/log/gcp-kube-scheduler.log.pos
-          tag kube-scheduler
-        </source>
-
-        # Example:
-        # I1104 10:36:20.242766       5 rescheduler.go:73] Running Rescheduler
-        <source>
-          type tail
-          format multiline
-          multiline_flush_interval 5s
-          format_firstline /^\\w\\d{4}/
-          format1 /^(?<severity>\\w)(?<time>\\d{4} [^\\s]*)\\s+(?<pid>\\d+)\\s+(?<source>[^ \\]]+)\\] (?<message>.*)/
-          time_format %m%d %H:%M:%S.%N
-          path /var/log/rescheduler.log
-          pos_file /var/log/gcp-rescheduler.log.pos
-          tag rescheduler
-        </source>
-
-        # Example:
-        # I0603 15:31:05.793605       6 cluster_manager.go:230] Reading config from path /etc/gce.conf
-        <source>
-          type tail
-          format multiline
-          multiline_flush_interval 5s
-          format_firstline /^\\w\\d{4}/
-          format1 /^(?<severity>\\w)(?<time>\\d{4} [^\\s]*)\\s+(?<pid>\\d+)\\s+(?<source>[^ \\]]+)\\] (?<message>.*)/
-          time_format %m%d %H:%M:%S.%N
-          path /var/log/glbc.log
-          pos_file /var/log/gcp-glbc.log.pos
-          tag glbc
-        </source>
-
-        # Example:
-        # I0603 15:31:05.793605       6 cluster_manager.go:230] Reading config from path /etc/gce.conf
-        <source>
-          type tail
-          format multiline
-          multiline_flush_interval 5s
-          format_firstline /^\\w\\d{4}/
-          format1 /^(?<severity>\\w)(?<time>\\d{4} [^\\s]*)\\s+(?<pid>\\d+)\\s+(?<source>[^ \\]]+)\\] (?<message>.*)/
-          time_format %m%d %H:%M:%S.%N
-          path /var/log/cluster-autoscaler.log
-          pos_file /var/log/gcp-cluster-autoscaler.log.pos
-          tag cluster-autoscaler
-        </source>
-
-        # Logs from systemd-journal for interesting services.
-        <source>
-          type systemd
-          filters [{ "_SYSTEMD_UNIT": "docker.service" }]
-          pos_file /var/log/gcp-journald-docker.pos
-          read_from_head true
-          tag docker
-        </source>
-
-        <source>
-          type systemd
-          filters [{ "_SYSTEMD_UNIT": "kubelet.service" }]
-          pos_file /var/log/gcp-journald-kubelet.pos
-          read_from_head true
-          tag kubelet
-        </source>
-
-        # Prometheus monitoring
-        <source>
-          @type prometheus
-          port 80
-        </source>
-
-        <source>
-          @type prometheus_monitor
-        </source>
-
-        # We use 2 output stanzas - one to handle the container logs and one to handle
-        # the node daemon logs, the latter of which explicitly sends its logs to the
-        # compute.googleapis.com service rather than container.googleapis.com to keep
-        # them separate since most users don't care about the node logs.
-        <match kubernetes.**>
-          @type copy
-
-          <store>
-            @type google_cloud
-
-            # Set the buffer type to file to improve the reliability and reduce the memory consumption
-            buffer_type file
-            buffer_path /var/log/fluentd-buffers/kubernetes.containers.buffer
-            # Set queue_full action to block because we want to pause gracefully
-            # in case of the off-the-limits load instead of throwing an exception
-            buffer_queue_full_action block
-            # Set the chunk limit conservatively to avoid exceeding the GCL limit
-            # of 10MiB per write request.
-            buffer_chunk_limit 2M
-            # Cap the combined memory usage of this buffer and the one below to
-            # 2MiB/chunk * (6 + 2) chunks = 16 MiB
-            buffer_queue_limit 6
-            # Never wait more than 5 seconds before flushing logs in the non-error case.
-            flush_interval 5s
-            # Never wait longer than 30 seconds between retries.
-            max_retry_wait 30
-            # Disable the limit on the number of retries (retry forever).
-            disable_retry_limit
-            # Use multiple threads for processing.
-            num_threads 2
-          </store>
-          <store>
-            @type prometheus
-
-            <metric>
-              type counter
-              name logging_entry_count
-              desc Total number of log entries generated by either an application container or a system component
-              <labels>
-                tag ${tag}
-                component container
-              </labels>
-            </metric>
-          </store>
-        </match>
-
-        # Keep a smaller buffer here since these logs are less important than the user's
-        # container logs.
-        <match **>
-          @type copy
-
-          <store>
-            @type google_cloud
-
-            detect_subservice false
-            buffer_type file
-            buffer_path /var/log/fluentd-buffers/kubernetes.system.buffer
-            buffer_queue_full_action block
-            buffer_chunk_limit 2M
-            buffer_queue_limit 2
-            flush_interval 5s
-            max_retry_wait 30
-            disable_retry_limit
-            num_threads 2
-          </store>
-          <store>
-            @type prometheus
-
-            <metric>
-              type counter
-              name logging_entry_count
-              desc Total number of log entries generated by either an application container or a system component
-              <labels>
-                tag ${tag}
-                component system
-              </labels>
-            </metric>
-          </store>
-        </match>
-    resources:
-      limits:
-        memory: 300Mi
-      requests:
-        # Any change here should be accompanied by a proportional change in CPU
-        # requests of other per-node add-ons (e.g. kube-proxy).
-        cpu: 100m
-        memory: 200Mi
-    volumeMounts:
-    - name: varlog
-      mountPath: /var/log
-    - name: varlibdockercontainers
-      mountPath: /var/lib/docker/containers
-      readOnly: true
-    - name: libsystemddir
-      mountPath: /host/lib
-      readOnly: true
-    # Liveness probe is aimed to help in situarions where fluentd
-    # silently hangs for no apparent reasons until manual restart.
-    # The idea of this probe is that if fluentd is not queueing or
-    # flushing chunks for 5 minutes, something is not right. If
-    # you want to change the fluentd configuration, reducing amount of
-    # logs fluentd collects, consider changing the threshold or turning
-    # liveness probe off completely.
-    livenessProbe:
-      initialDelaySeconds: 600
-      periodSeconds: 60
-      exec:
-        command:
-        - '/bin/sh'
-        - '-c'
-        - >
-          LIVENESS_THRESHOLD_SECONDS=${LIVENESS_THRESHOLD_SECONDS:-300};
-          STUCK_THRESHOLD_SECONDS=${LIVENESS_THRESHOLD_SECONDS:-900};
-          if [ ! -e /var/log/fluentd-buffers ];
-          then
-            exit 1;
-          fi;
-          LAST_MODIFIED_DATE=`stat /var/log/fluentd-buffers | grep Modify | sed -r "s/Modify: (.*)/\1/"`;
-          LAST_MODIFIED_TIMESTAMP=`date -d "$LAST_MODIFIED_DATE" +%s`;
-          if [ `date +%s` -gt `expr $LAST_MODIFIED_TIMESTAMP + $STUCK_THRESHOLD_SECONDS` ];
-          then
-            rm -rf /var/log/fluentd-buffers;
-            exit 1;
-          fi;
-          if [ `date +%s` -gt `expr $LAST_MODIFIED_TIMESTAMP + $LIVENESS_THRESHOLD_SECONDS` ];
-          then
-            exit 1;
-          fi;
-  terminationGracePeriodSeconds: 30
-  volumes:
-  - name: varlog
-    hostPath:
-      path: /var/log
-  - name: varlibdockercontainers
-    hostPath:
-      path: /var/lib/docker/containers
-  - name: libsystemddir
-    hostPath:
-      path: /usr/lib64
diff --git a/cluster/saltbase/salt/fluentd-gcp/init.sls b/cluster/saltbase/salt/fluentd-gcp/init.sls
deleted file mode 100644
index 1903619613..0000000000
--- a/cluster/saltbase/salt/fluentd-gcp/init.sls
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-{% if grains.kubelet_api_servers is not defined -%}
-/etc/kubernetes/manifests/fluentd-gcp.yaml:
-  file.managed:
-    - source: salt://fluentd-gcp/fluentd-gcp.yaml
-    - user: root
-    - group: root
-    - mode: 644
-    - makedirs: true
-    - dir_mode: 755
-{% endif %}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/cluster/saltbase/salt/top.sls b/cluster/saltbase/salt/top.sls
index 3ecafc2421..342c634cce 100644
--- a/cluster/saltbase/salt/top.sls
+++ b/cluster/saltbase/salt/top.sls
@@ -63,9 +63,6 @@ base:
     - kube-client-tools
     - kube-master-addons
     - kube-admission-controls
-{% if pillar.get('enable_node_logging', '').lower() == 'true' and pillar['logging_destination'] == 'gcp' %}
-    - fluentd-gcp
-{% endif %}
 {% if grains['cloud'] is defined and grains['cloud'] != 'vagrant' %}
     - logrotate
 {% endif %}