diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index a976fcc0d8158..720ed4b41507a 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -160,6 +160,7 @@ consistent with the behavior of `collection_jitter`.
 - [#1425](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1425): Fix win_perf_counter "index out of range" panic.
 - [#1634](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1634): Fix ntpq panic when field is missing.
 - [#1637](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1637): Sanitize graphite output field names.
+- [#1695](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1695): Fix MySQL plugin not sending 0 value fields.
 
 ## v0.13.1 [2016-05-24]
 
diff --git a/plugins/inputs/mysql/mysql.go b/plugins/inputs/mysql/mysql.go
index 63744d88cebd6..3bc0465690484 100644
--- a/plugins/inputs/mysql/mysql.go
+++ b/plugins/inputs/mysql/mysql.go
@@ -1511,7 +1511,7 @@ func parseValue(value sql.RawBytes) (float64, bool) {
 	}
 
 	if bytes.Compare(value, []byte("No")) == 0 || bytes.Compare(value, []byte("OFF")) == 0 {
-		return 0, false
+		return 0, true
 	}
 	n, err := strconv.ParseFloat(string(value), 64)
 	return n, err == nil