diff --git a/plugins/inputs/jolokia2/examples/zookeeper.conf b/plugins/inputs/jolokia2/examples/zookeeper.conf
index eac29c2848431..514e43ea87164 100644
--- a/plugins/inputs/jolokia2/examples/zookeeper.conf
+++ b/plugins/inputs/jolokia2/examples/zookeeper.conf
@@ -2,17 +2,17 @@
   urls = ["http://localhost:8080/jolokia"]
   name_prefix = "zk_"
 
-  [[inputs.jolokia2_agent.metrics]]
+  [[inputs.jolokia2_agent.metric]]
     name  = "quorum"
     mbean = "org.apache.ZooKeeperService:name0=*"
     tag_keys = ["name0"]
 
-  [[inputs.jolokia2_agent.metrics]]
+  [[inputs.jolokia2_agent.metric]]
     name = "leader"
     mbean = "org.apache.ZooKeeperService:name0=*,name1=*,name2=Leader"
     tag_keys = ["name1"]
 
-  [[inputs.jolokia2_agent.metrics]]
+  [[inputs.jolokia2_agent.metric]]
     name = "follower"
     mbean = "org.apache.ZooKeeperService:name0=*,name1=*,name2=Follower"
     tag_keys = ["name1"]
diff --git a/plugins/inputs/jolokia2/jolokia_test.go b/plugins/inputs/jolokia2/jolokia_test.go
index f94606ae69fdd..299fbe2ee5f4c 100644
--- a/plugins/inputs/jolokia2/jolokia_test.go
+++ b/plugins/inputs/jolokia2/jolokia_test.go
@@ -143,7 +143,12 @@ func TestJolokia2_ObjectValues(t *testing.T) {
 	[[jolokia2_agent.metric]]
 		name     = "object_with_key_pattern"
 		mbean    = "object_with_key_pattern:test=*"
-		tag_keys = ["test"]`
+		tag_keys = ["test"]
+
+	[[jolokia2_agent.metric]]
+		name  = "ColumnFamily"
+		mbean = "org.apache.cassandra.metrics:keyspace=*,name=EstimatedRowSizeHistogram,scope=schema_columns,type=ColumnFamily"
+		tag_keys = ["keyspace", "name", "scope"]`
 
 	response := `[{
 		"request": {
@@ -214,7 +219,20 @@ func TestJolokia2_ObjectValues(t *testing.T) {
 			}
 		},
 		"status": 200
-	}]`
+	}, {
+		"request": {
+		  "mbean": "org.apache.cassandra.metrics:keyspace=*,name=EstimatedRowSizeHistogram,scope=schema_columns,type=ColumnFamily",
+		  "type": "read"
+		},
+		"value": {
+		  "org.apache.cassandra.metrics:keyspace=system,name=EstimatedRowSizeHistogram,scope=schema_columns,type=ColumnFamily": {
+			"Value": [
+				0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0
+			]
+		  }
+		},
+		"status": 200
+	  }]`
 
 	server := setupServer(http.StatusOK, response)
 	defer server.Close()
@@ -730,6 +748,20 @@ func TestJolokia2_ProxyTargets(t *testing.T) {
 	})
 }
 
+func TestFillFields(t *testing.T) {
+	complex := map[string]interface{}{"Value": []interface{}{0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0}}
+	var scalar interface{}
+	scalar = []interface{}{0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0}
+
+	results := map[string]interface{}{}
+	newPointBuilder(Metric{Name: "test", Mbean: "complex"}, []string{"this", "that"}, "/").fillFields("", complex, results)
+	assert.Equal(t, map[string]interface{}{}, results)
+
+	results = map[string]interface{}{}
+	newPointBuilder(Metric{Name: "test", Mbean: "scalar"}, []string{"this", "that"}, "/").fillFields("", scalar, results)
+	assert.Equal(t, map[string]interface{}{}, results)
+}
+
 func setupServer(status int, resp string) *httptest.Server {
 	return httptest.NewServer(http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 		w.WriteHeader(http.StatusOK)
diff --git a/plugins/inputs/jolokia2/point_builder.go b/plugins/inputs/jolokia2/point_builder.go
index 02877ea70d6a9..f5ae1d31410ec 100644
--- a/plugins/inputs/jolokia2/point_builder.go
+++ b/plugins/inputs/jolokia2/point_builder.go
@@ -158,8 +158,11 @@ func (pb *pointBuilder) fillFields(name string, value interface{}, fieldMap map[
 	if valueMap, ok := value.(map[string]interface{}); ok {
 		// keep going until we get to something that is not a map
 		for key, innerValue := range valueMap {
-			var innerName string
+			if _, ok := innerValue.([]interface{}); ok {
+				continue
+			}
 
+			var innerName string
 			if name == "" {
 				innerName = pb.metric.FieldPrefix + key
 			} else {
@@ -172,6 +175,10 @@ func (pb *pointBuilder) fillFields(name string, value interface{}, fieldMap map[
 		return
 	}
 
+	if _, ok := value.([]interface{}); ok {
+		return
+	}
+
 	if pb.metric.FieldName != "" {
 		name = pb.metric.FieldName
 		if prefix := pb.metric.FieldPrefix; prefix != "" {