diff --git a/config/containers/logging/fluentd.md b/config/containers/logging/fluentd.md
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--- a/config/containers/logging/fluentd.md
+++ b/config/containers/logging/fluentd.md
@@ -117,8 +117,10 @@ connection is established. Defaults to `false`.
 
 ### fluentd-buffer-limit
 
-The amount of data to buffer before flushing to disk. Defaults to the amount of RAM
-available to the container.
+Sets the number of events buffered on the memory. Records will be stored in memory
+up to this number. If the buffer is full, the call to record logs will fail.
+The default is 8192.
+(https://github.com/fluent/fluent-logger-golang/tree/master#bufferlimit)
 
 ### fluentd-retry-wait