diff --git a/plugins/processors/all/all.go b/plugins/processors/all/all.go
index 41e2707d3..65580a46f 100644
--- a/plugins/processors/all/all.go
+++ b/plugins/processors/all/all.go
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ package all
 
 import (
 	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/processors/converter"
+	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/processors/date"
 	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/processors/enum"
 	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/processors/override"
 	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/processors/parser"
diff --git a/plugins/processors/date/README.md b/plugins/processors/date/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e2bd245e5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/plugins/processors/date/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+# Date Processor Plugin
+
+The `date` processor adds the months and years as tags to your data.
+
+Provides the ability to group by months or years. 
+
+A few example usecases include: 
+1) consumption data for utilities on per month basis 
+2) bandwith capacity per month
+3) compare energy production or sales on a yearly or monthly basis 
+
+
+### Configuration:
+
+```toml
+[[processors.date]]
+  ##Specify the date tags to add rename operation.
+  tagKey = "month"
+  dateFormat = "Jan"
+```
+
+### Tags:
+
+Tags are applied by this processor. 
+
+### Example processing:
+
+```
+- throughput, hostname=example.com lower=10i,upper=1000i,mean=500i 1502489900000000000
++ throughput,host=backend.example.com,month=Mar min=10i,max=1000i,mean=500i 1502489900000000000
+```
diff --git a/plugins/processors/date/date.go b/plugins/processors/date/date.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..844f99cc7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/plugins/processors/date/date.go
@@ -0,0 +1,69 @@
+package date
+
+import (
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf"
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/processors"
+)
+
+const sampleConfig = `
+##Specify the date tags to add
+tagKey = "month"
+dateFormat = "%m"
+
+`
+
+type Date struct {
+	TagKey     string `toml:"tagKey"`
+	DateFormat string `toml:"dateFormat"`
+}
+
+func (d *Date) SampleConfig() string {
+	return sampleConfig
+}
+
+func (d *Date) Description() string {
+	return "Dates measurements, tags, and fields that pass through this filter."
+}
+
+func (d *Date) Apply(in ...telegraf.Metric) []telegraf.Metric {
+	for _, point := range in {
+		point.AddTag(d.TagKey, point.Time().Format(d.DateFormat))
+
+	}
+
+	return in
+
+}
+
+func init() {
+	processors.Add("date", func() telegraf.Processor {
+		return &Date{}
+	})
+}
+
+/**
+ *
+
+[processors.date]
+  jdfj
+
+  ##Set Months to True or False
+  tagKey = "month"
+  dateFormat = "%m" // January
+
+[processors.date]
+  jdfj
+
+  ##Set Months to True or False
+  tagKey = "day_of_week"
+  dateFormat = "%d" // Wednesday
+
+
+  # [[processors.regex.fields]]
+  #   key = "request"
+  #   pattern = ".*category=(\\w+).*"
+  #   replacement = "${1}"
+  #   result_key = "search_category"
+
+
+*/
diff --git a/plugins/processors/date/date_test.go b/plugins/processors/date/date_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..98d88b351
--- /dev/null
+++ b/plugins/processors/date/date_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+package date
+
+import (
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf"
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/metric"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
+)
+
+func MustMetric(name string, tags map[string]string, fields map[string]interface{}, metricTime time.Time) telegraf.Metric {
+	if tags == nil {
+		tags = map[string]string{}
+	}
+	if fields == nil {
+		fields = map[string]interface{}{}
+	}
+	m, _ := metric.New(name, tags, fields, metricTime)
+	return m
+}
+
+func TestMonthTag(t *testing.T) {
+	dateFormatMonth := Date{
+		TagKey:     "month",
+		DateFormat: "Jan",
+	}
+
+	currentTime := time.Now()
+	month := currentTime.Format("Jan")
+
+	m1 := MustMetric("foo", nil, nil, currentTime)
+	m2 := MustMetric("bar", nil, nil, currentTime)
+	m3 := MustMetric("baz", nil, nil, currentTime)
+	monthApply := dateFormatMonth.Apply(m1, m2, m3)
+	assert.Equal(t, map[string]string{"month": month}, monthApply[0].Tags(), "should add tag 'month'")
+	assert.Equal(t, map[string]string{"month": month}, monthApply[1].Tags(), "should add tag 'month'")
+	assert.Equal(t, map[string]string{"month": month}, monthApply[2].Tags(), "should add tag 'month'")
+}
+
+func TestYearTag(t *testing.T) {
+	dateFormatYear := Date{
+		TagKey:     "year",
+		DateFormat: "2006",
+	}
+	currentTime := time.Now()
+	year := currentTime.Format("2006")
+
+	m4 := MustMetric("foo", nil, nil, currentTime)
+	m5 := MustMetric("bar", nil, nil, currentTime)
+	m6 := MustMetric("baz", nil, nil, currentTime)
+	yearApply := dateFormatYear.Apply(m4, m5, m6)
+	assert.Equal(t, map[string]string{"year": year}, yearApply[0].Tags(), "should add tag 'year'")
+	assert.Equal(t, map[string]string{"year": year}, yearApply[1].Tags(), "should add tag 'year'")
+	assert.Equal(t, map[string]string{"year": year}, yearApply[2].Tags(), "should add tag 'year'")
+}
+
+func TestOldDateTag(t *testing.T) {
+	dateFormatYear := Date{
+		TagKey:     "year",
+		DateFormat: "2006",
+	}
+
+	m7 := MustMetric("foo", nil, nil, time.Date(1993, 05, 27, 0, 0, 0, 0, time.UTC))
+	customDateApply := dateFormatYear.Apply(m7)
+	assert.Equal(t, map[string]string{"year": "1993"}, customDateApply[0].Tags(), "should add tag 'year'")
+}