diff --git a/plugins/outputs/stackdriver/README.md b/plugins/outputs/stackdriver/README.md
index ce3eb626e..a2d13e6e1 100644
--- a/plugins/outputs/stackdriver/README.md
+++ b/plugins/outputs/stackdriver/README.md
@@ -22,3 +22,15 @@ Metrics are grouped by the `namespace` variable and metric key - eg: `custom.goo
 
 Stackdriver does not support string values in custom metrics, any string
 fields will not be written.
+
+The Stackdriver API does not allow writing points which are out of order,
+older than 24 hours, or more with resolution greater than than one per point
+minute.  Since Telegraf writes the newest points first and moves backwards
+through the metric buffer, it may not be possible to write historical data
+after an interruption.
+
+Points collected with greater than 1 minute precision may need to be
+aggregated before then can be written.  Consider using the [basicstats][]
+aggregator to do this.
+
+[basicstats]: /plugins/aggregators/basicstats/README.md
diff --git a/plugins/outputs/stackdriver/stackdriver.go b/plugins/outputs/stackdriver/stackdriver.go
index a1cafdd98..a1c9e20da 100644
--- a/plugins/outputs/stackdriver/stackdriver.go
+++ b/plugins/outputs/stackdriver/stackdriver.go
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ import (
 	"fmt"
 	"log"
 	"path"
+	"sort"
+	"strings"
 
 	monitoring "cloud.google.com/go/monitoring/apiv3" // Imports the Stackdriver Monitoring client package.
 	googlepb "github.com/golang/protobuf/ptypes/timestamp"
@@ -38,6 +40,10 @@ const (
 	StartTime = int64(1)
 	// MaxInt is the max int64 value.
 	MaxInt = int(^uint(0) >> 1)
+
+	errStringPointsOutOfOrder  = "One or more of the points specified had an older end time than the most recent point"
+	errStringPointsTooOld      = "Data points cannot be written more than 24h in the past"
+	errStringPointsTooFrequent = "One or more points were written more frequently than the maximum sampling period configured for the metric"
 )
 
 var sampleConfig = `
@@ -70,17 +76,33 @@ func (s *Stackdriver) Connect() error {
 	return nil
 }
 
+// Sorted returns a copy of the metrics in time ascending order.  A copy is
+// made to avoid modifying the input metric slice since doing so is not
+// allowed.
+func sorted(metrics []telegraf.Metric) []telegraf.Metric {
+	batch := make([]telegraf.Metric, 0, len(metrics))
+	for i := len(metrics) - 1; i >= 0; i-- {
+		batch = append(batch, metrics[i])
+	}
+	sort.Slice(batch, func(i, j int) bool {
+		return batch[i].Time().Before(batch[j].Time())
+	})
+	return batch
+}
+
 // Write the metrics to Google Cloud Stackdriver.
 func (s *Stackdriver) Write(metrics []telegraf.Metric) error {
 	ctx := context.Background()
 
-	for _, m := range metrics {
+	batch := sorted(metrics)
+
+	for _, m := range batch {
 		timeSeries := []*monitoringpb.TimeSeries{}
 
 		for _, f := range m.FieldList() {
 			value, err := getStackdriverTypedValue(f.Value)
 			if err != nil {
-				log.Printf("E! [output.stackdriver] get type failed: %s", err)
+				log.Printf("E! [outputs.stackdriver] get type failed: %s", err)
 				continue
 			}
 
@@ -90,13 +112,13 @@ func (s *Stackdriver) Write(metrics []telegraf.Metric) error {
 
 			metricKind, err := getStackdriverMetricKind(m.Type())
 			if err != nil {
-				log.Printf("E! [output.stackdriver] get metric failed: %s", err)
+				log.Printf("E! [outputs.stackdriver] get metric failed: %s", err)
 				continue
 			}
 
 			timeInterval, err := getStackdriverTimeInterval(metricKind, StartTime, m.Time().Unix())
 			if err != nil {
-				log.Printf("E! [output.stackdriver] get time interval failed: %s", err)
+				log.Printf("E! [outputs.stackdriver] get time interval failed: %s", err)
 				continue
 			}
 
@@ -139,7 +161,13 @@ func (s *Stackdriver) Write(metrics []telegraf.Metric) error {
 		// Create the time series in Stackdriver.
 		err := s.client.CreateTimeSeries(ctx, timeSeriesRequest)
 		if err != nil {
-			log.Printf("E! [output.stackdriver] unable to write to Stackdriver: %s", err)
+			if strings.Contains(err.Error(), errStringPointsOutOfOrder) ||
+				strings.Contains(err.Error(), errStringPointsTooOld) ||
+				strings.Contains(err.Error(), errStringPointsTooFrequent) {
+				log.Printf("D! [outputs.stackdriver] unable to write to Stackdriver: %s", err)
+				return nil
+			}
+			log.Printf("E! [outputs.stackdriver] unable to write to Stackdriver: %s", err)
 			return err
 		}
 	}
@@ -239,7 +267,7 @@ func getStackdriverLabels(tags []*telegraf.Tag) map[string]string {
 	for k, v := range labels {
 		if len(k) > QuotaStringLengthForLabelKey {
 			log.Printf(
-				"W! [output.stackdriver] removing tag [%s] key exceeds string length for label key [%d]",
+				"W! [outputs.stackdriver] removing tag [%s] key exceeds string length for label key [%d]",
 				k,
 				QuotaStringLengthForLabelKey,
 			)
@@ -248,7 +276,7 @@ func getStackdriverLabels(tags []*telegraf.Tag) map[string]string {
 		}
 		if len(v) > QuotaStringLengthForLabelValue {
 			log.Printf(
-				"W! [output.stackdriver] removing tag [%s] value exceeds string length for label value [%d]",
+				"W! [outputs.stackdriver] removing tag [%s] value exceeds string length for label value [%d]",
 				k,
 				QuotaStringLengthForLabelValue,
 			)
@@ -259,7 +287,7 @@ func getStackdriverLabels(tags []*telegraf.Tag) map[string]string {
 	if len(labels) > QuotaLabelsPerMetricDescriptor {
 		excess := len(labels) - QuotaLabelsPerMetricDescriptor
 		log.Printf(
-			"W! [output.stackdriver] tag count [%d] exceeds quota for stackdriver labels [%d] removing [%d] random tags",
+			"W! [outputs.stackdriver] tag count [%d] exceeds quota for stackdriver labels [%d] removing [%d] random tags",
 			len(labels),
 			QuotaLabelsPerMetricDescriptor,
 			excess,
diff --git a/plugins/outputs/stackdriver/stackdriver_test.go b/plugins/outputs/stackdriver/stackdriver_test.go
index 94a3e6ce4..d9aab38fd 100644
--- a/plugins/outputs/stackdriver/stackdriver_test.go
+++ b/plugins/outputs/stackdriver/stackdriver_test.go
@@ -2,16 +2,19 @@ package stackdriver
 
 import (
 	"context"
+	"errors"
 	"fmt"
 	"log"
 	"net"
 	"os"
 	"strings"
 	"testing"
+	"time"
 
 	monitoring "cloud.google.com/go/monitoring/apiv3"
 	"github.com/golang/protobuf/proto"
 	emptypb "github.com/golang/protobuf/ptypes/empty"
+	googlepb "github.com/golang/protobuf/ptypes/timestamp"
 	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf"
 	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/testutil"
 	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
@@ -96,6 +99,130 @@ func TestWrite(t *testing.T) {
 	require.NoError(t, err)
 }
 
+func TestWriteAscendingTime(t *testing.T) {
+	expectedResponse := &emptypb.Empty{}
+	mockMetric.err = nil
+	mockMetric.reqs = nil
+	mockMetric.resps = append(mockMetric.resps[:0], expectedResponse)
+
+	c, err := monitoring.NewMetricClient(context.Background(), clientOpt)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+
+	s := &Stackdriver{
+		Project:   fmt.Sprintf("projects/%s", "[PROJECT]"),
+		Namespace: "test",
+		client:    c,
+	}
+
+	// Metrics in descending order of timestamp
+	metrics := []telegraf.Metric{
+		testutil.MustMetric("cpu",
+			map[string]string{},
+			map[string]interface{}{
+				"value": 42,
+			},
+			time.Unix(2, 0),
+		),
+		testutil.MustMetric("cpu",
+			map[string]string{},
+			map[string]interface{}{
+				"value": 43,
+			},
+			time.Unix(1, 0),
+		),
+	}
+
+	err = s.Connect()
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	err = s.Write(metrics)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+
+	require.Len(t, mockMetric.reqs, 2)
+	request := mockMetric.reqs[0].(*monitoringpb.CreateTimeSeriesRequest)
+	require.Len(t, request.TimeSeries, 1)
+	ts := request.TimeSeries[0]
+	require.Len(t, ts.Points, 1)
+	require.Equal(t, ts.Points[0].Interval, &monitoringpb.TimeInterval{
+		EndTime: &googlepb.Timestamp{
+			Seconds: 1,
+		},
+	})
+	require.Equal(t, ts.Points[0].Value, &monitoringpb.TypedValue{
+		Value: &monitoringpb.TypedValue_Int64Value{
+			Int64Value: int64(43),
+		},
+	})
+
+	request = mockMetric.reqs[1].(*monitoringpb.CreateTimeSeriesRequest)
+	require.Len(t, request.TimeSeries, 1)
+	ts = request.TimeSeries[0]
+	require.Len(t, ts.Points, 1)
+	require.Equal(t, ts.Points[0].Interval, &monitoringpb.TimeInterval{
+		EndTime: &googlepb.Timestamp{
+			Seconds: 2,
+		},
+	})
+	require.Equal(t, ts.Points[0].Value, &monitoringpb.TypedValue{
+		Value: &monitoringpb.TypedValue_Int64Value{
+			Int64Value: int64(42),
+		},
+	})
+}
+
+func TestWriteIgnoredErrors(t *testing.T) {
+	tests := []struct {
+		name        string
+		err         error
+		expectedErr bool
+	}{
+		{
+			name: "points too old",
+			err:  errors.New(errStringPointsTooOld),
+		},
+		{
+			name: "points out of order",
+			err:  errors.New(errStringPointsOutOfOrder),
+		},
+		{
+			name: "points too frequent",
+			err:  errors.New(errStringPointsTooFrequent),
+		},
+		{
+			name:        "other errors reported",
+			err:         errors.New("test"),
+			expectedErr: true,
+		},
+	}
+	for _, tt := range tests {
+		t.Run(tt.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			mockMetric.err = tt.err
+			mockMetric.reqs = nil
+
+			c, err := monitoring.NewMetricClient(context.Background(), clientOpt)
+			if err != nil {
+				t.Fatal(err)
+			}
+
+			s := &Stackdriver{
+				Project:   fmt.Sprintf("projects/%s", "[PROJECT]"),
+				Namespace: "test",
+				client:    c,
+			}
+
+			err = s.Connect()
+			require.NoError(t, err)
+			err = s.Write(testutil.MockMetrics())
+			if tt.expectedErr {
+				require.Error(t, err)
+			} else {
+				require.NoError(t, err)
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}
+
 func TestGetStackdriverLabels(t *testing.T) {
 	tags := []*telegraf.Tag{
 		{Key: "project", Value: "bar"},