From ec66f9a46b438f6d60cdca92d46220160b26a348 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Cameron Sparr <cameronsparr@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2016 10:51:14 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Do not write metrics if there are 0 to write

closes #884
---
 internal/models/running_output.go | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/internal/models/running_output.go b/internal/models/running_output.go
index 33fa4e1208ac3..1e3d44a6181f6 100644
--- a/internal/models/running_output.go
+++ b/internal/models/running_output.go
@@ -121,6 +121,9 @@ func (ro *RunningOutput) Write() error {
 }
 
 func (ro *RunningOutput) write(metrics []telegraf.Metric) error {
+	if len(metrics) == 0 {
+		return nil
+	}
 	start := time.Now()
 	err := ro.Output.Write(metrics)
 	elapsed := time.Since(start)