parsing error in mdsd

I'm trying to send some logs from a glog source through to geneva and I'm getting a format error.
"ProtocolHandlerJSON: Error decoding message '[mdsd.controlplane",11867,1,[5,[log",FT_STRING"],[stream",FT_STRING"],[pod",FT_STRING"],[namespace",FT_STRING"],[containerID",FT_STRING"],[FluentdIngestTimestamp",FT_TIME"]],[I0123 01:11:47.930147 1 wrap.go:42] GET /api/v1: (646.1b5}s) 200 [[hyperkube/v1.8.2 (linux/amd64) kubernetes/bdaeafa/generic-garbage-collector] 172.31.5.1:42786]
]\n","stderr","kube-apiserver-3995920765-7g09f","5a56a3b2afd0f10001c66b4f","f0675e65d26a745c0d167d1cff801c68a312b0dafb11676fa2fa6190ba79093b",[2018,0]]]' from fd 10: Invalid JSON document: Was not an array" I think it is because the log has a ] but not an opening or somthing like that. Do we need to do some encoding of the messages here? with direction I'd be happy to contribute, but I don't have much ruby experience.