From 7c81f5936fc4447ae2de2b80619c66f8e4086931 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joshua Powers <powersj@fastmail.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2022 09:21:20 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] fix: check for nil client before closing in amqp (#10635)

(cherry picked from commit 0c4df85c2de2228dfb64b72d9854da714de3a8b3)
---
 plugins/outputs/amqp/amqp.go | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/plugins/outputs/amqp/amqp.go b/plugins/outputs/amqp/amqp.go
index b7029ea77a5f2..68aeeeca3a5cb 100644
--- a/plugins/outputs/amqp/amqp.go
+++ b/plugins/outputs/amqp/amqp.go
@@ -259,7 +259,7 @@ func (q *AMQP) Write(metrics []telegraf.Metric) error {
 				if err != nil {
 					return err
 				}
-			} else {
+			} else if q.client != nil {
 				if err := q.client.Close(); err != nil {
 					q.Log.Errorf("Closing connection failed: %v", err)
 				}