diff --git a/plugins/inputs/mqtt_consumer/mqtt_consumer.go b/plugins/inputs/mqtt_consumer/mqtt_consumer.go
index 72e0d3c19..9cb420a42 100644
--- a/plugins/inputs/mqtt_consumer/mqtt_consumer.go
+++ b/plugins/inputs/mqtt_consumer/mqtt_consumer.go
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ package mqtt_consumer
 import (
 	"fmt"
 	"log"
+	"strings"
 	"sync"
 	"time"
 
@@ -46,8 +47,8 @@ type MQTTConsumer struct {
 
 	// keep the accumulator internally:
 	acc telegraf.Accumulator
-	
-	started bool false
+
+	started bool
 }
 
 var sampleConfig = `
@@ -102,6 +103,7 @@ func (m *MQTTConsumer) SetParser(parser parsers.Parser) {
 func (m *MQTTConsumer) Start(acc telegraf.Accumulator) error {
 	m.Lock()
 	defer m.Unlock()
+	m.started = false
 
 	if m.PersistentSession && m.ClientID == "" {
 		return fmt.Errorf("ERROR MQTT Consumer: When using persistent_session" +
@@ -118,9 +120,6 @@ func (m *MQTTConsumer) Start(acc telegraf.Accumulator) error {
 		return err
 	}
 
-	opts.OnConnect = onConnect
-
-
 	m.client = mqtt.NewClient(opts)
 	if token := m.client.Connect(); token.Wait() && token.Error() != nil {
 		return token.Error()
@@ -129,14 +128,12 @@ func (m *MQTTConsumer) Start(acc telegraf.Accumulator) error {
 	m.in = make(chan mqtt.Message, 1000)
 	m.done = make(chan struct{})
 
-
-
 	go m.receiver()
 
 	return nil
 }
- func onConnect(c *MQTT.Client) {
- 	if (!m.PersistentSession || !m.started) {
+func (m *MQTTConsumer) onConnect(c mqtt.Client) {
+	if !m.PersistentSession || !m.started {
 		topics := make(map[string]byte)
 		for _, topic := range m.Topics {
 			topics[topic] = byte(m.QoS)
@@ -145,11 +142,18 @@ func (m *MQTTConsumer) Start(acc telegraf.Accumulator) error {
 		subscribeToken.Wait()
 		if subscribeToken.Error() != nil {
 			log.Printf("MQTT SUBSCRIBE ERROR\ntopics: %s\nerror: %s",
-				string(m.Topics), err.Error())
+				strings.Join(m.Topics[:], ","), subscribeToken.Error())
 		}
-		m.started = true;
- 	}
- }
+		m.started = true
+	}
+	return
+}
+
+func (m *MQTTConsumer) onConnectionLost(c mqtt.Client, err error) {
+	log.Printf("MQTT Connection lost\nerror: %s\nClient should retry to reconnect", err.Error())
+	return
+}
+
 // receiver() reads all incoming messages from the consumer, and parses them into
 // influxdb metric points.
 func (m *MQTTConsumer) receiver() {
@@ -231,6 +235,8 @@ func (m *MQTTConsumer) createOpts() (*mqtt.ClientOptions, error) {
 	opts.SetAutoReconnect(true)
 	opts.SetKeepAlive(time.Second * 60)
 	opts.SetCleanSession(!m.PersistentSession)
+	opts.SetOnConnectHandler(m.onConnect)
+	opts.SetConnectionLostHandler(m.onConnectionLost)
 	return opts, nil
 }