diff --git a/windows-installer/fluent-template.conf b/windows-installer/fluent-template.conf
index 846d628b..c3ac67ac 100644
--- a/windows-installer/fluent-template.conf
+++ b/windows-installer/fluent-template.conf
@@ -48,9 +48,7 @@
   max_retry_wait 300
   # Use multiple threads for processing.
   num_threads 8
-  # Use REST transport, because gRPC is expensive for structured data
-  # and has a bug (http://issuetracker.google.com/174475386).
-  use_grpc false
+  use_grpc true
   # If a request is a mix of valid log entries and invalid ones, ingest the
   # valid ones and drop the invalid ones instead of dropping everything.
   partial_success true