From b75d66ff41a130f37b8e8499a51117b309e484cd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Greg <g2linton@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2018 15:54:10 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Return error if NewRequest fails in http output (#4429)

---
 plugins/outputs/http/http.go | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/plugins/outputs/http/http.go b/plugins/outputs/http/http.go
index 198aefe07..e36460ac8 100644
--- a/plugins/outputs/http/http.go
+++ b/plugins/outputs/http/http.go
@@ -127,6 +127,9 @@ func (h *HTTP) Write(metrics []telegraf.Metric) error {
 
 func (h *HTTP) write(reqBody []byte) error {
 	req, err := http.NewRequest(h.Method, h.URL, bytes.NewBuffer(reqBody))
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
 
 	req.Header.Set("Content-Type", defaultContentType)
 	for k, v := range h.Headers {