diff --git a/plugins/outputs/opentsdb/opentsdb.go b/plugins/outputs/opentsdb/opentsdb.go
index b3d9b4997..1f2012469 100644
--- a/plugins/outputs/opentsdb/opentsdb.go
+++ b/plugins/outputs/opentsdb/opentsdb.go
@@ -114,7 +114,9 @@ func (o *OpenTSDB) WriteHttp(metrics []telegraf.Metric, u *url.URL) error {
 			case uint64:
 			case float64:
 			default:
-				fmt.Printf("OpenTSDB does not support metric value: [%s] of type [%T].\n", value, value)
+				if o.Debug {
+					fmt.Printf("OpenTSDB does not support metric value: [%s] of type [%T].\n", value, value)
+				}
 				continue
 			}