diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 23e39adb7..962752d42 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
 - [#1738](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1738): Fix unmarshal of influxdb metrics with null tags
 - [#1733](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1733): Fix statsd scientific notation parsing
 - [#1716](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1716): Sensors plugin strconv.ParseFloat: parsing "": invalid syntax
+- [#1530](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1530): Fix prometheus_client reload panic
 
 ## v1.0 [2016-09-08]
 
diff --git a/plugins/outputs/prometheus_client/prometheus_client.go b/plugins/outputs/prometheus_client/prometheus_client.go
index 325e9566b..1f2120737 100644
--- a/plugins/outputs/prometheus_client/prometheus_client.go
+++ b/plugins/outputs/prometheus_client/prometheus_client.go
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ var sampleConfig = `
 `
 
 func (p *PrometheusClient) Start() error {
-	prometheus.MustRegister(p)
+	prometheus.Register(p)
 	defer func() {
 		if r := recover(); r != nil {
 			// recovering from panic here because there is no way to stop a