Check if metric is nil before calling SetAggregate

fixes #2146

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -19,7 +19,8 @@
 
 - [#2049](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/2049): Fix the Value data format not trimming null characters from input.
 - [#1949](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1949): Fix windows `net` plugin.
-- [#1775](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1775): Cache & expire metrics for delivery to prometheus
+- [#1775](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1775): Cache & expire metrics for delivery to prometheus.
+- [#2146](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/2146): Fix potential panic in aggregator plugin metric maker.
 
 ## v1.1.2 [2016-12-12]
 

internal/models/running_aggregator.go

@@ -70,7 +70,9 @@ func (r *RunningAggregator) MakeMetric(
 		t,
 	)
 
-	m.SetAggregate(true)
+	if m != nil {
+		m.SetAggregate(true)
+	}
 
 	return m
 }

plugins/inputs/logparser/README.md

@@ -40,8 +40,11 @@ regex patterns.
 ## Grok Parser
 
 The grok parser uses a slightly modified version of logstash "grok" patterns,
-with the format `%{<capture_syntax>[:<semantic_name>][:<modifier>]}`
+with the format
 
+```
+%{<capture_syntax>[:<semantic_name>][:<modifier>]}
+```
 
 Telegraf has many of it's own
 [built-in patterns](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/blob/master/plugins/inputs/logparser/grok/patterns/influx-patterns),
@@ -92,4 +95,3 @@ Timestamp modifiers can be used to convert captures to the timestamp of the
 CUSTOM time layouts must be within quotes and be the representation of the
 "reference time", which is `Mon Jan 2 15:04:05 -0700 MST 2006`
 See https://golang.org/pkg/time/#Parse for more details.
-