diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 95ad6d1a2709f..357d9f22db77a 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ in their config file.
 - [#2079](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/2079): Enable setting ClientID in MQTT output.
 - [#2001](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/2001): MongoDB input plugin: Improve state data.
 - [#2078](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/2078): Ping input: add standard deviation field.
+- [#2121](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/2121): Add GC pause metric to InfluxDB input plugin.
 
 ### Bugfixes
 
diff --git a/plugins/inputs/influxdb/influxdb.go b/plugins/inputs/influxdb/influxdb.go
index bb11cfee4c9a4..3c98eead34a38 100644
--- a/plugins/inputs/influxdb/influxdb.go
+++ b/plugins/inputs/influxdb/influxdb.go
@@ -94,32 +94,33 @@ type point struct {
 }
 
 type memstats struct {
-	Alloc         int64   `json:"Alloc"`
-	TotalAlloc    int64   `json:"TotalAlloc"`
-	Sys           int64   `json:"Sys"`
-	Lookups       int64   `json:"Lookups"`
-	Mallocs       int64   `json:"Mallocs"`
-	Frees         int64   `json:"Frees"`
-	HeapAlloc     int64   `json:"HeapAlloc"`
-	HeapSys       int64   `json:"HeapSys"`
-	HeapIdle      int64   `json:"HeapIdle"`
-	HeapInuse     int64   `json:"HeapInuse"`
-	HeapReleased  int64   `json:"HeapReleased"`
-	HeapObjects   int64   `json:"HeapObjects"`
-	StackInuse    int64   `json:"StackInuse"`
-	StackSys      int64   `json:"StackSys"`
-	MSpanInuse    int64   `json:"MSpanInuse"`
-	MSpanSys      int64   `json:"MSpanSys"`
-	MCacheInuse   int64   `json:"MCacheInuse"`
-	MCacheSys     int64   `json:"MCacheSys"`
-	BuckHashSys   int64   `json:"BuckHashSys"`
-	GCSys         int64   `json:"GCSys"`
-	OtherSys      int64   `json:"OtherSys"`
-	NextGC        int64   `json:"NextGC"`
-	LastGC        int64   `json:"LastGC"`
-	PauseTotalNs  int64   `json:"PauseTotalNs"`
-	NumGC         int64   `json:"NumGC"`
-	GCCPUFraction float64 `json:"GCCPUFraction"`
+	Alloc         int64      `json:"Alloc"`
+	TotalAlloc    int64      `json:"TotalAlloc"`
+	Sys           int64      `json:"Sys"`
+	Lookups       int64      `json:"Lookups"`
+	Mallocs       int64      `json:"Mallocs"`
+	Frees         int64      `json:"Frees"`
+	HeapAlloc     int64      `json:"HeapAlloc"`
+	HeapSys       int64      `json:"HeapSys"`
+	HeapIdle      int64      `json:"HeapIdle"`
+	HeapInuse     int64      `json:"HeapInuse"`
+	HeapReleased  int64      `json:"HeapReleased"`
+	HeapObjects   int64      `json:"HeapObjects"`
+	StackInuse    int64      `json:"StackInuse"`
+	StackSys      int64      `json:"StackSys"`
+	MSpanInuse    int64      `json:"MSpanInuse"`
+	MSpanSys      int64      `json:"MSpanSys"`
+	MCacheInuse   int64      `json:"MCacheInuse"`
+	MCacheSys     int64      `json:"MCacheSys"`
+	BuckHashSys   int64      `json:"BuckHashSys"`
+	GCSys         int64      `json:"GCSys"`
+	OtherSys      int64      `json:"OtherSys"`
+	NextGC        int64      `json:"NextGC"`
+	LastGC        int64      `json:"LastGC"`
+	PauseTotalNs  int64      `json:"PauseTotalNs"`
+	PauseNs       [256]int64 `json:"PauseNs"`
+	NumGC         int64      `json:"NumGC"`
+	GCCPUFraction float64    `json:"GCCPUFraction"`
 }
 
 // Gathers data from a particular URL
@@ -202,6 +203,7 @@ func (i *InfluxDB) gatherURL(
 						"next_gc":         m.NextGC,
 						"last_gc":         m.LastGC,
 						"pause_total_ns":  m.PauseTotalNs,
+						"pause_ns":        m.PauseNs[(m.NumGC+255)%256],
 						"num_gc":          m.NumGC,
 						"gcc_pu_fraction": m.GCCPUFraction,
 					},
diff --git a/plugins/inputs/influxdb/influxdb_test.go b/plugins/inputs/influxdb/influxdb_test.go
index 09707a548587b..c27aa77dc33f9 100644
--- a/plugins/inputs/influxdb/influxdb_test.go
+++ b/plugins/inputs/influxdb/influxdb_test.go
@@ -86,6 +86,7 @@ func TestInfluxDB(t *testing.T) {
 		"frees":           int64(381008),
 		"heap_idle":       int64(15802368),
 		"pause_total_ns":  int64(5132914),
+		"pause_ns":        int64(127053),
 		"lookups":         int64(77),
 		"heap_sys":        int64(33849344),
 		"mcache_sys":      int64(16384),