diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 0f2439332363d..2edc48a3db159 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ should now look like:
 
 - [#1384](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1384): Fix datarace in apache input plugin.
 - [#1399](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1399): Add `read_repairs` statistics to riak plugin.
+- [#1405](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1405): Fix memory/connection leak in prometheus input plugin.
 
 ## v1.0 beta 2 [2016-06-21]
 
diff --git a/plugins/inputs/prometheus/prometheus.go b/plugins/inputs/prometheus/prometheus.go
index 1c60a363e3f3d..2e975f8be30f2 100644
--- a/plugins/inputs/prometheus/prometheus.go
+++ b/plugins/inputs/prometheus/prometheus.go
@@ -88,6 +88,7 @@ func (p *Prometheus) gatherURL(url string, acc telegraf.Accumulator) error {
 			InsecureSkipVerify: p.InsecureSkipVerify,
 		},
 		ResponseHeaderTimeout: time.Duration(3 * time.Second),
+        DisableKeepAlives: true,
 	}
 
 	if p.BearerToken != "" {