diff --git a/plugins/outputs/kafka/kafka.go b/plugins/outputs/kafka/kafka.go
index 0c967819f..85eb32a3f 100644
--- a/plugins/outputs/kafka/kafka.go
+++ b/plugins/outputs/kafka/kafka.go
@@ -50,6 +50,8 @@ type (
 		// SASL Password
 		SASLPassword string `toml:"sasl_password"`
 
+		Log telegraf.Logger `toml:"-"`
+
 		tlsConfig tls.Config
 		producer  sarama.SyncProducer
 
@@ -316,13 +318,14 @@ func (k *Kafka) Write(metrics []telegraf.Metric) error {
 	for _, metric := range metrics {
 		buf, err := k.serializer.Serialize(metric)
 		if err != nil {
-			log.Printf("D! [outputs.kafka] Could not serialize metric: %v", err)
+			k.Log.Debugf("Could not serialize metric: %v", err)
 			continue
 		}
 
 		m := &sarama.ProducerMessage{
-			Topic: k.GetTopicName(metric),
-			Value: sarama.ByteEncoder(buf),
+			Topic:     k.GetTopicName(metric),
+			Value:     sarama.ByteEncoder(buf),
+			Timestamp: metric.Time(),
 		}
 
 		key, err := k.routingKey(metric)
@@ -342,7 +345,11 @@ func (k *Kafka) Write(metrics []telegraf.Metric) error {
 		if errs, ok := err.(sarama.ProducerErrors); ok {
 			for _, prodErr := range errs {
 				if prodErr.Err == sarama.ErrMessageSizeTooLarge {
-					log.Printf("E! Error writing to output [kafka]: Message too large, consider increasing `max_message_bytes`; dropping batch")
+					k.Log.Error("Message too large, consider increasing `max_message_bytes`; dropping batch")
+					return nil
+				}
+				if prodErr.Err == sarama.ErrInvalidTimestamp {
+					k.Log.Error("The timestamp of the message is out of acceptable range, consider increasing broker `message.timestamp.difference.max.ms`; dropping batch")
 					return nil
 				}
 				return prodErr