diff --git a/plugins/inputs/influxdb_listener/influxdb_listener.go b/plugins/inputs/influxdb_listener/influxdb_listener.go
index 674433db9a38a..0a548221aca3d 100644
--- a/plugins/inputs/influxdb_listener/influxdb_listener.go
+++ b/plugins/inputs/influxdb_listener/influxdb_listener.go
@@ -347,6 +347,9 @@ func (h *InfluxDBListener) handleWriteUpstreamParser(res http.ResponseWriter, re
 		var err error
 		body, err = gzip.NewReader(body)
 		if err != nil {
+			if err == influx_upstream.ErrEOF {
+				return
+			}
 			h.Log.Debugf("Error decompressing request body: %v", err.Error())
 			if err := badRequest(res, err.Error()); err != nil {
 				h.Log.Debugf("error in bad-request: %v", err)