diff --git a/salt/telegraf/etc/telegraf.conf b/salt/telegraf/etc/telegraf.conf
index 1e8d9d3fe..ecfb0730a 100644
--- a/salt/telegraf/etc/telegraf.conf
+++ b/salt/telegraf/etc/telegraf.conf
@@ -247,6 +247,25 @@
 [[inputs.jolokia2_agent]]
   name_prefix= "kafka_"
   urls = ["http://localhost:8778/jolokia"]
+  fieldexclude   = [
+    "*.EventType",
+    "*.FifteenMinuteRate",
+    "*.FiveMinuteRate",
+    "*.MeanRate",
+    "*.OneMinuteRate",
+    "*.RateUnit",
+    "*.LatencyUnit",
+    "*.50thPercentile",
+    "*.75thPercentile",
+    "*.95thPercentile",
+    "*.98thPercentile",
+    "*.99thPercentile",
+    "*.999thPercentile",
+    "*.Min",
+    "*.Mean",
+    "*.Max",
+    "*.StdDev"
+  ]
 
 [[inputs.jolokia2_agent.metric]]
   name         = "topics"