From ad5fcf8efb56104fed8755e3be10d0450a321be1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Greg <2653109+glinton@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2018 18:50:55 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Improve error description in influxdb_v2 output (#4952)

---
 plugins/outputs/influxdb_v2/http.go | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/plugins/outputs/influxdb_v2/http.go b/plugins/outputs/influxdb_v2/http.go
index d6d9d9076..8709a9b84 100644
--- a/plugins/outputs/influxdb_v2/http.go
+++ b/plugins/outputs/influxdb_v2/http.go
@@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ func (c *httpClient) Write(ctx context.Context, metrics []telegraf.Metric) error
 	err = json.NewDecoder(resp.Body).Decode(writeResp)
 	desc := writeResp.Error()
 	if err != nil {
-		desc = err.Error()
+		desc = resp.Status
 	}
 
 	switch resp.StatusCode {