diff --git a/docs/infrastructure/components/fluentbit.md b/docs/infrastructure/components/fluentbit.md
index 544563218..7380f79c4 100644
--- a/docs/infrastructure/components/fluentbit.md
+++ b/docs/infrastructure/components/fluentbit.md
@@ -46,7 +46,11 @@ The Fluent Bit application version is stored in `appVersion` but this is only he
 
 ## Troubleshooting
 
-[Guide to Debugging Fluent Bit issues](https://github.com/aws/aws-for-fluent-bit/blob/mainline/troubleshooting/debugging.md)
+### Resources
+
+- [Guide to Debugging Fluent Bit issues](https://github.com/aws/aws-for-fluent-bit/blob/mainline/troubleshooting/debugging.md)
+- [2023 High Impact Issues Notice/Catalogue Ticket](https://github.com/aws/aws-for-fluent-bit/issues/542)
+- [Recommended Cloudwatch_Logs Configuration](https://github.com/aws/aws-for-fluent-bit/issues/340)
 
 ### Basic checks
 
diff --git a/infra/charts/fluentbit.ts b/infra/charts/fluentbit.ts
index 5f5633aba..9121eda42 100644
--- a/infra/charts/fluentbit.ts
+++ b/infra/charts/fluentbit.ts
@@ -81,6 +81,12 @@ HC_Period 5
           logGroupName: `/aws/eks/${props.clusterName}/logs`,
           logGroupTemplate: `/aws/eks/${props.clusterName}/workload/$kubernetes['namespace_name']`,
           logStreamPrefix: 'fb-',
+          /**
+           * Set the Fluent Bit idle timeout to 4 seconds.
+           * This helps reduce the rate of network errors in the logs.
+           * See: https://github.com/aws/aws-for-fluent-bit/issues/340
+           */
+          extraOutputs: `net.keepalive_idle_timeout 4s`,
         },
         firehose: { enabled: false },
         kinesis: { enabled: false },
@@ -93,11 +99,6 @@ HC_Period 5
           { key: 'karpenter.sh/capacity-type', operator: 'Equal', value: 'spot', effect: 'NoSchedule' },
           { key: 'kubernetes.io/arch', operator: 'Equal', value: 'arm64', effect: 'NoSchedule' },
         ],
-        /* To reduce the log volume being sent to CloudWatch (shipped to AWS s3 => storage cost),
-         tells Fluent Bit to not send the logs from the Fluent Bit application pods.
-         The Fluent Bit application pods have some (a lot!) network errors that are being logged.
-        */
-        annotations: { 'fluentbit.io/exclude': 'true' },
       },
     });
   }