diff --git a/production/ksonnet/promtail/config.libsonnet b/production/ksonnet/promtail/config.libsonnet
index 8b9f9a1f3d407bebb403039f3394e70581a9d9a9..335531fb44d7a15cc11506ab6465f51882e09f4e 100644
--- a/production/ksonnet/promtail/config.libsonnet
+++ b/production/ksonnet/promtail/config.libsonnet
@@ -13,6 +13,11 @@
       container_root_path: '/var/lib/docker',
       external_labels: {},
       entry_parser: 'docker',
+      backoff_config: {
+        minbackoff: 100ms,
+        maxbackoff: 5s,
+        maxretries: 5
+      }
     },
 
     service_url: