From 1390c2200440f83bbcd900d720e9148a19a07c57 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bob Zoller <bob@zoller.us>
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2016 15:19:22 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] sanitize * to - in graphite serializer

closes #1110
---
 CHANGELOG.md                             | 1 +
 plugins/serializers/graphite/graphite.go | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index c1d309f82..d66e4dd3a 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ based on _prefix_ in addition to globs. This means that a filter like
 - [#1096](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1096): Performance refactor of running output buffers.
 - [#967](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/967): Buffer logging improvements.
 - [#1107](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1107): Support lustre2 job stats. Thanks @hanleyja!
+- [#1110](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1110): Sanitize * to - in graphite serializer. Thanks @goodeggs!
 
 ### Bugfixes
 
diff --git a/plugins/serializers/graphite/graphite.go b/plugins/serializers/graphite/graphite.go
index 6484d3fee..bf2e75579 100644
--- a/plugins/serializers/graphite/graphite.go
+++ b/plugins/serializers/graphite/graphite.go
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ type GraphiteSerializer struct {
 	Template string
 }
 
-var sanitizedChars = strings.NewReplacer("/", "-", "@", "-", " ", "_", "..", ".")
+var sanitizedChars = strings.NewReplacer("/", "-", "@", "-", "*", "-", " ", "_", "..", ".")
 
 func (s *GraphiteSerializer) Serialize(metric telegraf.Metric) ([]string, error) {
 	out := []string{}