diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index d01567eba..e5388cb84 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@ should now look like:
 - [#1432](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1432): Panic fix for multiple graphite outputs under very high load.
 - [#1412](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1412): Instrumental output has better reconnect behavior
 - [#1460](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1460): Remove PID from procstat plugin to fix cardinality issues.
+- [#1427](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1427): Cassandra input: version 2.x "column family" fix.
 
 ## v1.0 beta 2 [2016-06-21]
 
diff --git a/plugins/inputs/cassandra/cassandra.go b/plugins/inputs/cassandra/cassandra.go
index 351232aca..e7edf7153 100644
--- a/plugins/inputs/cassandra/cassandra.go
+++ b/plugins/inputs/cassandra/cassandra.go
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ func (c cassandraMetric) addTagsFields(out map[string]interface{}) {
 	tokens := parseJmxMetricRequest(r.(map[string]interface{})["mbean"].(string))
 	// Requests with wildcards for keyspace or table names will return nested
 	// maps in the json response
-	if tokens["type"] == "Table" && (tokens["keyspace"] == "*" ||
+	if (tokens["type"] == "Table" || tokens["type"] == "ColumnFamily") && (tokens["keyspace"] == "*" ||
 		tokens["scope"] == "*") {
 		if valuesMap, ok := out["value"]; ok {
 			for k, v := range valuesMap.(map[string]interface{}) {