From 8147d609730c0265be477c79d077e8ea05bc956b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Nelson <daniel.nelson@influxdb.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2018 20:54:02 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Fix metric buffer limit in internal plugin after reload

---
 CHANGELOG.md                      | 1 +
 internal/models/running_output.go | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index c42e1c5d3..f0f2b2027 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -72,6 +72,7 @@
 ### Bugfixes
 
 - [#1896](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1896): Fix various mysql data type conversions.
+- [#3810](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/3810): Fix metric buffer limit in internal plugin after reload.
 
 ## v1.5.3 [unreleased]
 
diff --git a/internal/models/running_output.go b/internal/models/running_output.go
index 335fb792f..713c28cce 100644
--- a/internal/models/running_output.go
+++ b/internal/models/running_output.go
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ func NewRunningOutput(
 			map[string]string{"output": name},
 		),
 	}
-	ro.BufferLimit.Incr(int64(ro.MetricBufferLimit))
+	ro.BufferLimit.Set(int64(ro.MetricBufferLimit))
 	return ro
 }