diff --git a/plugins/puppet/provider/collectd_conf/parsed.rb b/plugins/puppet/provider/collectd_conf/parsed.rb
index 8ad30a0..ffe7238 100644
--- a/plugins/puppet/provider/collectd_conf/parsed.rb
+++ b/plugins/puppet/provider/collectd_conf/parsed.rb
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ def to_line(record)
 			if record[:value].is_a? Array 
 				values = record[:value]
 			end
-			values.collect do |v| "%s %s" % [ record[:name], v ] end.join("\n")
+			values.collect do |v| "%s %s" % [ record[:name], v ] end.sort.join("\n")
 		end
 	end