diff --git a/plugins/outputs/stackdriver/stackdriver.go b/plugins/outputs/stackdriver/stackdriver.go
index a16d78aa5..d9eab15e4 100644
--- a/plugins/outputs/stackdriver/stackdriver.go
+++ b/plugins/outputs/stackdriver/stackdriver.go
@@ -223,7 +223,10 @@ func (s *Stackdriver) sendBatch(batch []telegraf.Metric) error {
 
 			// Convert any declared tag to a resource label and remove it from
 			// the metric
-			resourceLabels := s.ResourceLabels
+			resourceLabels := make(map[string]string, len(s.ResourceLabels)+len(s.TagsAsResourceLabels))
+			for k, v := range s.ResourceLabels {
+				resourceLabels[k] = v
+			}
 			for _, tag := range s.TagsAsResourceLabels {
 				if val, ok := m.GetTag(tag); ok {
 					resourceLabels[tag] = val
diff --git a/plugins/outputs/stackdriver/stackdriver_test.go b/plugins/outputs/stackdriver/stackdriver_test.go
index 817468d37..1ab69f5fc 100644
--- a/plugins/outputs/stackdriver/stackdriver_test.go
+++ b/plugins/outputs/stackdriver/stackdriver_test.go
@@ -155,6 +155,70 @@ func TestWriteResourceTypeAndLabels(t *testing.T) {
 	require.Equal(t, request.TimeSeries[0].Resource.Labels["mylabel"], "myvalue")
 }
 
+func TestWriteTagsAsResourceLabels(t *testing.T) {
+	expectedResponse := &emptypb.Empty{}
+	mockMetric.err = nil
+	mockMetric.reqs = nil
+	mockMetric.resps = append(mockMetric.resps[:0], expectedResponse)
+
+	c, err := monitoring.NewMetricClient(context.Background(), clientOpt)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+
+	s := &Stackdriver{
+		Project:              fmt.Sprintf("projects/%s", "[PROJECT]"),
+		Namespace:            "test",
+		ResourceType:         "foo",
+		TagsAsResourceLabels: []string{"job_name"},
+		ResourceLabels: map[string]string{
+			"mylabel": "myvalue",
+		},
+		Log:    testutil.Logger{},
+		client: c,
+	}
+
+	metrics := []telegraf.Metric{
+		testutil.MustMetric("cpu",
+			map[string]string{
+				"job_name": "cpu",
+				"mytag":    "foo",
+			},
+			map[string]interface{}{
+				"value": 42,
+			},
+			time.Unix(2, 0),
+		),
+		testutil.MustMetric("mem",
+			map[string]string{
+				"job_name": "mem",
+				"mytag":    "bar",
+			},
+			map[string]interface{}{
+				"value": 42,
+			},
+			time.Unix(2, 0),
+		),
+	}
+
+	require.NoError(t, s.Connect())
+	require.NoError(t, s.Write(metrics))
+	require.Len(t, mockMetric.reqs, 1)
+
+	request := mockMetric.reqs[0].(*monitoringpb.CreateTimeSeriesRequest)
+	require.Len(t, request.TimeSeries, 2)
+	for _, ts := range request.TimeSeries {
+		switch ts.Metric.Type {
+		case "test_mem_value/unknown":
+			require.Equal(t, "mem", ts.Resource.Labels["job_name"])
+		case "test_cpu_value/unknown":
+			require.Equal(t, "cpu", ts.Resource.Labels["job_name"])
+		default:
+			require.False(t, true, "Unknown metric type")
+		}
+	}
+}
+
 func TestWriteAscendingTime(t *testing.T) {
 	expectedResponse := &emptypb.Empty{}
 	mockMetric.err = nil