diff --git a/plugins/inputs/reader/reader_test.go b/plugins/inputs/reader/reader_test.go
index 339eba16d..cb6fb44a8 100644
--- a/plugins/inputs/reader/reader_test.go
+++ b/plugins/inputs/reader/reader_test.go
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ func TestJSONParserCompile(t *testing.T) {
 	testDir := getPluginDir()
 	var acc testutil.Accumulator
 	r := Reader{
-		Filepaths:  []string{testDir + "/reader/testfiles/**.log"},
+		Filepaths:  []string{testDir + "/reader/testfiles/json_a.log"},
 		DataFormat: "json",
 		Tags:       []string{"parent_ignored_child"},
 	}
diff --git a/plugins/parsers/grok/parser_test.go b/plugins/parsers/grok/parser_test.go
index b87c112d2..77818199a 100644
--- a/plugins/parsers/grok/parser_test.go
+++ b/plugins/parsers/grok/parser_test.go
@@ -12,7 +12,6 @@ func TestGrokParse(t *testing.T) {
 		Measurement: "t_met",
 		Patterns:    []string{"%{COMMON_LOG_FORMAT}"},
 	}
-	//var acc testutil.Accumulator
 	parser.Compile()
 	metrics, err := parser.Parse([]byte(`127.0.0.1 user-identifier frank [10/Oct/2000:13:55:36 -0700] "GET /apache_pb.gif HTTP/1.0" 200 2326`))
 	log.Printf("metric_tags: %v, metric_fields: %v", metrics[0].Tags(), metrics[0].Fields())