diff --git a/src/journal-remote/journal-remote-main.c b/src/journal-remote/journal-remote-main.c
index 8543dbac397..802c3ea6089 100644
--- a/src/journal-remote/journal-remote-main.c
+++ b/src/journal-remote/journal-remote-main.c
@@ -222,9 +222,12 @@ static int process_http_upload(
                 if (r == -EAGAIN)
                         break;
                 if (r < 0) {
-                        if (r == -E2BIG)
-                                log_warning_errno(r, "Entry is too above maximum of %u, aborting connection %p.",
+                        if (r == -ENOBUFS)
+                                log_warning_errno(r, "Entry is above the maximum of %u, aborting connection %p.",
                                                   DATA_SIZE_MAX, connection);
+                        else if (r == -E2BIG)
+                                log_warning_errno(r, "Entry with more fields than the maximum of %u, aborting connection %p.",
+                                                  ENTRY_FIELD_COUNT_MAX, connection);
                         else
                                 log_warning_errno(r, "Failed to process data, aborting connection %p: %m",
                                                   connection);
diff --git a/src/journal-remote/journal-remote.c b/src/journal-remote/journal-remote.c
index 3c0916c4383..1da32c5f856 100644
--- a/src/journal-remote/journal-remote.c
+++ b/src/journal-remote/journal-remote.c
@@ -407,6 +407,9 @@ int journal_remote_handle_raw_source(
                 log_debug("%zu active sources remaining", s->active);
                 return 0;
         } else if (r == -E2BIG) {
+                log_notice("Entry with too many fields, skipped");
+                return 1;
+        } else if (r == -ENOBUFS) {
                 log_notice("Entry too big, skipped");
                 return 1;
         } else if (r == -EAGAIN) {
diff --git a/src/shared/journal-importer.c b/src/shared/journal-importer.c
index b0e619205d1..8638cd3cc98 100644
--- a/src/shared/journal-importer.c
+++ b/src/shared/journal-importer.c
@@ -23,6 +23,9 @@ enum {
 };
 
 static int iovw_put(struct iovec_wrapper *iovw, void* data, size_t len) {
+        if (iovw->count >= ENTRY_FIELD_COUNT_MAX)
+                return -E2BIG;
+
         if (!GREEDY_REALLOC(iovw->iovec, iovw->size_bytes, iovw->count + 1))
                 return log_oom();
 
@@ -97,7 +100,7 @@ static int get_line(JournalImporter *imp, char **line, size_t *size) {
 
                 imp->scanned = imp->filled;
                 if (imp->scanned >= DATA_SIZE_MAX)
-                        return log_error_errno(SYNTHETIC_ERRNO(E2BIG),
+                        return log_error_errno(SYNTHETIC_ERRNO(ENOBUFS),
                                                "Entry is bigger than %u bytes.",
                                                DATA_SIZE_MAX);