From 6a97b259ebdd6e483c4a5aa38a60f097a88d43fb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Greg <2653109+glinton@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2019 12:07:44 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Minimize call to collect uptime in system input (#5592)

---
 plugins/inputs/system/system.go | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/plugins/inputs/system/system.go b/plugins/inputs/system/system.go
index ad17c56ed..55ebbc59e 100644
--- a/plugins/inputs/system/system.go
+++ b/plugins/inputs/system/system.go
@@ -47,22 +47,22 @@ func (_ *SystemStats) Gather(acc telegraf.Accumulator) error {
 	now := time.Now()
 	acc.AddGauge("system", fields, nil, now)
 
-	hostinfo, err := host.Info()
+	uptime, err := host.Uptime()
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
 
 	acc.AddCounter("system", map[string]interface{}{
-		"uptime": hostinfo.Uptime,
+		"uptime": uptime,
 	}, nil, now)
 	acc.AddFields("system", map[string]interface{}{
-		"uptime_format": format_uptime(hostinfo.Uptime),
+		"uptime_format": formatUptime(uptime),
 	}, nil, now)
 
 	return nil
 }
 
-func format_uptime(uptime uint64) string {
+func formatUptime(uptime uint64) string {
 	buf := new(bytes.Buffer)
 	w := bufio.NewWriter(buf)