From 856655f9550011630799df1bf7770a3e96473dec Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ildar Svetlov <svetlov.ildar@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2017 23:13:56 +0400
Subject: [PATCH] Don't add system input uptime_format as a counter (#3578)

---
 plugins/inputs/system/SYSTEM_README.md | 3 ++-
 plugins/inputs/system/system.go        | 4 +++-
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/plugins/inputs/system/SYSTEM_README.md b/plugins/inputs/system/SYSTEM_README.md
index 2ade1947b..09290832c 100644
--- a/plugins/inputs/system/SYSTEM_README.md
+++ b/plugins/inputs/system/SYSTEM_README.md
@@ -34,5 +34,6 @@ $ telegraf --config ~/ws/telegraf.conf --input-filter system --test
 * Plugin: system, Collection 1
 * Plugin: inputs.system, Collection 1
 > system,host=tyrion load1=3.72,load5=2.4,load15=2.1,n_users=3i,n_cpus=4i 1483964144000000000
-> system,host=tyrion uptime=1249632i,uptime_format="14 days, 11:07" 1483964144000000000
+> system,host=tyrion uptime=1249632i 1483964144000000000
+> system,host=tyrion uptime_format="14 days, 11:07" 1483964144000000000
 ```
diff --git a/plugins/inputs/system/system.go b/plugins/inputs/system/system.go
index 32c391f78..980e2fa38 100644
--- a/plugins/inputs/system/system.go
+++ b/plugins/inputs/system/system.go
@@ -46,7 +46,9 @@ func (_ *SystemStats) Gather(acc telegraf.Accumulator) error {
 		"n_cpus":  runtime.NumCPU(),
 	}, nil)
 	acc.AddCounter("system", map[string]interface{}{
-		"uptime":        hostinfo.Uptime,
+		"uptime": hostinfo.Uptime,
+	}, nil)
+	acc.AddFields("system", map[string]interface{}{
 		"uptime_format": format_uptime(hostinfo.Uptime),
 	}, nil)