From e9eeda555ec1a0ade90d953dd4f5dd599e8541d7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Greg <g2linton@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2018 18:45:40 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Reset/flush saved contents from bad metric (#4646)

---
 plugins/parsers/influx/parser.go | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/plugins/parsers/influx/parser.go b/plugins/parsers/influx/parser.go
index 0b16a2a39..b236a6f10 100644
--- a/plugins/parsers/influx/parser.go
+++ b/plugins/parsers/influx/parser.go
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ func (p *Parser) Parse(input []byte) ([]telegraf.Metric, error) {
 	for p.machine.ParseLine() {
 		err := p.machine.Err()
 		if err != nil {
+			p.handler.Reset()
 			return nil, &ParseError{
 				Offset: p.machine.Position(),
 				msg:    err.Error(),