diff --git a/clients/cmd/fluentd/lib/fluent/plugin/out_loki.rb b/clients/cmd/fluentd/lib/fluent/plugin/out_loki.rb
index bc3429b574..c72aa2adc1 100644
--- a/clients/cmd/fluentd/lib/fluent/plugin/out_loki.rb
+++ b/clients/cmd/fluentd/lib/fluent/plugin/out_loki.rb
@@ -278,7 +278,6 @@ module Fluent
           case @line_format
           when :json
             line = Yajl.dump(record)
-            line = line.gsub("\\n", "\n").gsub("\\r", "\r").gsub("\\s", "\s").gsub("\\t", "\t")
           when :key_value
             formatted_labels = []
             record.each do |k, v|