diff --git a/agent/agent.go b/agent/agent.go
index 2df603cd4..47d5336e4 100644
--- a/agent/agent.go
+++ b/agent/agent.go
@@ -300,6 +300,8 @@ func (a *Agent) flusher(shutdown chan struct{}, metricC chan telegraf.Metric) er
 			internal.RandomSleep(a.Config.Agent.FlushJitter.Duration, shutdown)
 			a.flush()
 		case metric := <-metricC:
+			// NOTE potential bottleneck here as we put each metric through the
+			// processors serially.
 			mS := []telegraf.Metric{metric}
 			for _, processor := range a.Config.Processors {
 				mS = processor.Apply(mS...)
@@ -321,7 +323,7 @@ func (a *Agent) Run(shutdown chan struct{}) error {
 		a.Config.Agent.Hostname, a.Config.Agent.FlushInterval.Duration)
 
 	// channel shared between all input threads for accumulating metrics
-	metricC := make(chan telegraf.Metric, 10000)
+	metricC := make(chan telegraf.Metric, 100)
 
 	// Start all ServicePlugins
 	for _, input := range a.Config.Inputs {
diff --git a/internal/config/config.go b/internal/config/config.go
index 676f833d6..0beb4a29c 100644
--- a/internal/config/config.go
+++ b/internal/config/config.go
@@ -841,7 +841,11 @@ func buildAggregator(name string, tbl *ast.Table) (*models.AggregatorConfig, err
 		}
 	}
 
-	conf := &models.AggregatorConfig{Name: name}
+	conf := &models.AggregatorConfig{
+		Name:   name,
+		Delay:  time.Millisecond * 100,
+		Period: time.Second * 30,
+	}
 
 	if node, ok := tbl.Fields["period"]; ok {
 		if kv, ok := node.(*ast.KeyValue); ok {
diff --git a/internal/models/makemetric.go b/internal/models/makemetric.go
index b198109a7..afaa9475e 100644
--- a/internal/models/makemetric.go
+++ b/internal/models/makemetric.go
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ import (
 //   applyFilter:  if false, the above filter is not applied to each metric.
 //                 This is used by Aggregators, because aggregators use filters
 //                 on incoming metrics instead of on created metrics.
+// TODO refactor this to not have such a huge func signature.
 func makemetric(
 	measurement string,
 	fields map[string]interface{},
diff --git a/internal/models/running_aggregator.go b/internal/models/running_aggregator.go
index ca947bb12..9c8403f5f 100644
--- a/internal/models/running_aggregator.go
+++ b/internal/models/running_aggregator.go
@@ -109,13 +109,6 @@ func (r *RunningAggregator) Run(
 	acc telegraf.Accumulator,
 	shutdown chan struct{},
 ) {
-	if r.Config.Delay == 0 {
-		r.Config.Delay = time.Millisecond * 100
-	}
-	if r.Config.Period == 0 {
-		r.Config.Period = time.Second * 30
-	}
-
 	time.Sleep(r.Config.Delay)
 	periodT := time.NewTicker(r.Config.Period)
 	defer periodT.Stop()
diff --git a/internal/models/running_aggregator_test.go b/internal/models/running_aggregator_test.go
index f816c0a80..495b8ddda 100644
--- a/internal/models/running_aggregator_test.go
+++ b/internal/models/running_aggregator_test.go
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ func TestAdd(t *testing.T) {
 		Filter: Filter{
 			NamePass: []string{"*"},
 		},
+		Period: time.Millisecond * 500,
 	})
 	assert.NoError(t, ra.Config.Filter.Compile())
 	acc := testutil.Accumulator{}
diff --git a/metric.go b/metric.go
index d21330ff6..5079ff4f1 100644
--- a/metric.go
+++ b/metric.go
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ type Metric interface {
 	UnixNano() int64
 
 	// HashID returns a non-cryptographic hash of the metric (name + tags)
+	// NOTE: do not persist & depend on this value to disk.
 	HashID() uint64
 
 	// Fields returns the fields for the metric
diff --git a/plugins/aggregators/minmax/minmax.go b/plugins/aggregators/minmax/minmax.go
index a79d7bb01..1c83c0cc2 100644
--- a/plugins/aggregators/minmax/minmax.go
+++ b/plugins/aggregators/minmax/minmax.go
@@ -6,10 +6,7 @@ import (
 )
 
 type MinMax struct {
-	// caches for metric fields, names, and tags
-	fieldCache map[uint64]map[string]minmax
-	nameCache  map[uint64]string
-	tagCache   map[uint64]map[string]string
+	cache map[uint64]aggregate
 }
 
 func NewMinMax() telegraf.Aggregator {
@@ -18,6 +15,12 @@ func NewMinMax() telegraf.Aggregator {
 	return mm
 }
 
+type aggregate struct {
+	fields map[string]minmax
+	name   string
+	tags   map[string]string
+}
+
 type minmax struct {
 	min float64
 	max float64
@@ -42,41 +45,41 @@ func (m *MinMax) Description() string {
 
 func (m *MinMax) Add(in telegraf.Metric) {
 	id := in.HashID()
-	if _, ok := m.nameCache[id]; !ok {
+	if _, ok := m.cache[id]; !ok {
 		// hit an uncached metric, create caches for first time:
-		m.nameCache[id] = in.Name()
-		m.tagCache[id] = in.Tags()
-		m.fieldCache[id] = make(map[string]minmax)
+		a := aggregate{
+			name:   in.Name(),
+			tags:   in.Tags(),
+			fields: make(map[string]minmax),
+		}
 		for k, v := range in.Fields() {
 			if fv, ok := convert(v); ok {
-				m.fieldCache[id][k] = minmax{
+				a.fields[k] = minmax{
 					min: fv,
 					max: fv,
 				}
 			}
 		}
+		m.cache[id] = a
 	} else {
 		for k, v := range in.Fields() {
 			if fv, ok := convert(v); ok {
-				if _, ok := m.fieldCache[id][k]; !ok {
+				if _, ok := m.cache[id].fields[k]; !ok {
 					// hit an uncached field of a cached metric
-					m.fieldCache[id][k] = minmax{
+					m.cache[id].fields[k] = minmax{
 						min: fv,
 						max: fv,
 					}
 					continue
 				}
-				cmpmin := compare(m.fieldCache[id][k].min, fv)
-				cmpmax := compare(m.fieldCache[id][k].max, fv)
-				if cmpmin == 1 {
-					tmp := m.fieldCache[id][k]
+				if fv < m.cache[id].fields[k].min {
+					tmp := m.cache[id].fields[k]
 					tmp.min = fv
-					m.fieldCache[id][k] = tmp
-				}
-				if cmpmax == -1 {
-					tmp := m.fieldCache[id][k]
+					m.cache[id].fields[k] = tmp
+				} else if fv > m.cache[id].fields[k].max {
+					tmp := m.cache[id].fields[k]
 					tmp.max = fv
-					m.fieldCache[id][k] = tmp
+					m.cache[id].fields[k] = tmp
 				}
 			}
 		}
@@ -84,29 +87,18 @@ func (m *MinMax) Add(in telegraf.Metric) {
 }
 
 func (m *MinMax) Push(acc telegraf.Accumulator) {
-	for id, _ := range m.nameCache {
+	for _, aggregate := range m.cache {
 		fields := map[string]interface{}{}
-		for k, v := range m.fieldCache[id] {
+		for k, v := range aggregate.fields {
 			fields[k+"_min"] = v.min
 			fields[k+"_max"] = v.max
 		}
-		acc.AddFields(m.nameCache[id], fields, m.tagCache[id])
+		acc.AddFields(aggregate.name, fields, aggregate.tags)
 	}
 }
 
 func (m *MinMax) Reset() {
-	m.fieldCache = make(map[uint64]map[string]minmax)
-	m.nameCache = make(map[uint64]string)
-	m.tagCache = make(map[uint64]map[string]string)
-}
-
-func compare(a, b float64) int {
-	if a < b {
-		return -1
-	} else if a > b {
-		return 1
-	}
-	return 0
+	m.cache = make(map[uint64]aggregate)
 }
 
 func convert(in interface{}) (float64, bool) {