From 37330a1e5c602f93baccc1e3974dfbe032831f62 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: James Maidment <james@maidment.org>
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2018 18:43:10 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Update mem values to gauge (#4034)

(cherry picked from commit 1e1d9e8acb23471a42a80dc81733358b1e6b3196)
---
 plugins/inputs/system/memory.go | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/plugins/inputs/system/memory.go b/plugins/inputs/system/memory.go
index 490c56f89..3cb95610e 100644
--- a/plugins/inputs/system/memory.go
+++ b/plugins/inputs/system/memory.go
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ func (s *MemStats) Gather(acc telegraf.Accumulator) error {
 		"used_percent":      100 * float64(vm.Used) / float64(vm.Total),
 		"available_percent": 100 * float64(vm.Available) / float64(vm.Total),
 	}
-	acc.AddCounter("mem", fields, nil)
+	acc.AddGauge("mem", fields, nil)
 
 	return nil
 }