From 9bc13f143e6dc384b8eec2660a59cbbccdb5d6a1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Nelson <daniel.nelson@influxdb.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2017 11:41:58 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Test for nil metric before reading tags in logparser

---
 plugins/inputs/logparser/logparser.go | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/plugins/inputs/logparser/logparser.go b/plugins/inputs/logparser/logparser.go
index 40870799d..b6640cdc9 100644
--- a/plugins/inputs/logparser/logparser.go
+++ b/plugins/inputs/logparser/logparser.go
@@ -254,9 +254,9 @@ func (l *LogParserPlugin) parser() {
 		for _, parser := range l.parsers {
 			m, err = parser.ParseLine(entry.line)
 			if err == nil {
-				tags := m.Tags()
-				tags["path"] = entry.path
 				if m != nil {
+					tags := m.Tags()
+					tags["path"] = entry.path
 					l.acc.AddFields(m.Name(), m.Fields(), tags, m.Time())
 				}
 			} else {