Fixup http write handler changes

plugins/inputs/http_listener/http_listener.go

@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ import (
 	"log"
 	"net"
 	"net/http"
-	"strconv"
 	"sync"
 	"time"
 
@@ -18,6 +17,8 @@ import (
 	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/parsers"
 )
 
+const MAX_REQUEST_BODY_SIZE = 50 * 1024 * 1024
+
 type HttpListener struct {
 	ServiceAddress string
 	ReadTimeout    internal.Duration
@@ -124,6 +125,8 @@ func (t *HttpListener) ServeHTTP(res http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request) {
 				res.Header().Set("X-Influxdb-Version", "1.0")
 				res.WriteHeader(http.StatusBadRequest)
 				res.Write([]byte(fmt.Sprintf(`{"error":"%s"}`, http400msg.String())))
+			} else {
+				res.WriteHeader(http.StatusNoContent)
 			}
 		}()
 
@@ -138,32 +141,31 @@ func (t *HttpListener) ServeHTTP(res http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request) {
 			body = b
 		}
 
-		var bs []byte
+		allocSize := 512
-		if cl := req.Header.Get("Content-length"); cl != "" {
+		if req.ContentLength < MAX_REQUEST_BODY_SIZE {
-			if l, err := strconv.Atoi(cl); err == nil {
+			allocSize = int(req.ContentLength)
-				bs = make([]byte, 0, l)
 		}
-		}
+		buf := bytes.NewBuffer(make([]byte, 0, allocSize))
-
+		_, err := buf.ReadFrom(http.MaxBytesReader(res, body, MAX_REQUEST_BODY_SIZE))
-		buf := bytes.NewBuffer(bs)
-		_, err := buf.ReadFrom(body)
 		if err != nil {
-			log.Printf("E! HttpListener unable to read request body. data: [%s], error: %s\n", string(buf.Bytes()), err.Error())
+			log.Printf("E! HttpListener unable to read request body. error: %s\n", err.Error())
 			http400msg.WriteString("HttpHandler unable to read from request body: " + err.Error())
 			return
 		}
 
 		metrics, err := t.parser.Parse(buf.Bytes())
 		if err != nil {
-			log.Printf("E! HttpListener unable to parse metrics. data: [%s], error: %s \n", string(buf.Bytes()), err.Error())
+			log.Printf("E! HttpListener unable to parse metrics. error: %s \n", err.Error())
-			http400msg.WriteString("Error while parsing metrics: " + err.Error())
+			if len(metrics) == 0 {
-			return
+				http400msg.WriteString(err.Error())
+			} else {
+				http400msg.WriteString("partial write: " + err.Error())
+			}
 		}
 
 		for _, m := range metrics {
 			t.acc.AddFields(m.Name(), m.Fields(), m.Tags(), m.Time())
 		}
-		res.WriteHeader(http.StatusNoContent)
 	case "/query":
 		// Deliver a dummy response to the query endpoint, as some InfluxDB
 		// clients test endpoint availability with a query

plugins/parsers/influx/parser.go

@@ -24,6 +24,14 @@ func (p *InfluxParser) Parse(buf []byte) ([]telegraf.Metric, error) {
 	// parse even if the buffer begins with a newline
 	buf = bytes.TrimPrefix(buf, []byte("\n"))
 	points, err := models.ParsePoints(buf)
+
+	if err != nil {
+		if len(err.Error()) > 1024 {
+			err = fmt.Errorf("Error parsing influx line-protocol (error truncated): %s",
+				err.Error()[0:256])
+		}
+	}
+
 	metrics := make([]telegraf.Metric, len(points))
 	for i, point := range points {
 		for k, v := range p.DefaultTags {