Description of problem:
In /var/log/messages, fluentD is looking for a rollover date format similar to 'messages-20160613' but if it is anything else it will create errors and will not pass the logs through the system.

Elastic Search Will appear to pass logs along but Fluentd logs will look like the following:
2016-06-17 04:13:00 -0400 [warn]: failed to expand `%Q[#{ Time.at(time) > Time.now ? (temp_time = Time.parse(Time.at(time).to_s.gsub(Time.at(time).year.to_s, (tag_parts[3].nil? ? Time.at(time).year.to_s : tag_parts[3][9,4]) )).to_datetime.to_s; Time.parse(temp_time) > Time.now ? Time.parse(temp_time.gsub(Time.parse(temp_time).year.to_s, (Time.parse(temp_time).year - 1).to_s )).to_datetime.to_s : Time.parse(temp_time).to_datetime.to_s ) : Time.at(time).to_datetime.to_s }]` error_class=TypeError error="no implicit conversion of nil into String"
  2016-06-17 04:13:00 -0400 [warn]: suppressed same stacktrace

Which looks similar to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1347368 but is different because the systems are on GMT timezone.