diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index d4792790f..989e3f7a9 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -102,6 +102,7 @@ be deprecated eventually.
 - [#2410](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/2410): Fix connection leak in postgresql.
 - [#2628](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/2628): Set default measurement name for snmp input.
 - [#2649](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/2649): Improve performance of diskio with many disks
+- [#2671](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/2671): The internal input plugin uses the wrong units for `heap_objects`
 
 ## v1.2.1 [2017-02-01]
 
diff --git a/plugins/inputs/internal/internal.go b/plugins/inputs/internal/internal.go
index f6123edd5..8b5286f56 100644
--- a/plugins/inputs/internal/internal.go
+++ b/plugins/inputs/internal/internal.go
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ func (s *Self) Gather(acc telegraf.Accumulator) error {
 			"heap_idle_bytes":     m.HeapIdle,     // bytes in idle spans
 			"heap_in_use_bytes":   m.HeapInuse,    // bytes in non-idle span
 			"heap_released_bytes": m.HeapReleased, // bytes released to the OS
-			"heap_objects_bytes":  m.HeapObjects,  // total number of allocated objects
+			"heap_objects":        m.HeapObjects,  // total number of allocated objects
 			"num_gc":              m.NumGC,
 		}
 		acc.AddFields("internal_memstats", fields, map[string]string{})