diff --git a/plugins/parsers/all/all.go b/plugins/parsers/all/all.go
index 32821d732..24f433128 100644
--- a/plugins/parsers/all/all.go
+++ b/plugins/parsers/all/all.go
@@ -5,5 +5,6 @@ import (
 	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/parsers/csv"
 	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/parsers/json"
 	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/parsers/json_v2"
+	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/parsers/wavefront"
 	_ "github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/parsers/xpath"
 )
diff --git a/plugins/parsers/registry.go b/plugins/parsers/registry.go
index b97a045c6..79276282a 100644
--- a/plugins/parsers/registry.go
+++ b/plugins/parsers/registry.go
@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@ import (
 	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/parsers/temporary/json_v2"
 	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/parsers/temporary/xpath"
 	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/parsers/value"
-	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/parsers/wavefront"
 )
 
 // Creator is the function to create a new parser
@@ -232,8 +231,6 @@ func NewParser(config *Config) (Parser, error) {
 			config.DefaultTags,
 			config.Separator,
 			config.Templates)
-	case "wavefront":
-		parser, err = NewWavefrontParser(config.DefaultTags)
 	case "grok":
 		parser, err = newGrokParser(
 			config.MetricName,
@@ -365,10 +362,6 @@ func NewLogFmtParser(metricName string, defaultTags map[string]string, tagKeys [
 	return parser, err
 }
 
-func NewWavefrontParser(defaultTags map[string]string) (Parser, error) {
-	return wavefront.NewWavefrontParser(defaultTags), nil
-}
-
 func NewFormUrlencodedParser(
 	metricName string,
 	defaultTags map[string]string,
diff --git a/plugins/parsers/wavefront/parser.go b/plugins/parsers/wavefront/parser.go
index 6ef509cad..7bae2725f 100644
--- a/plugins/parsers/wavefront/parser.go
+++ b/plugins/parsers/wavefront/parser.go
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ import (
 
 	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf"
 	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/metric"
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/plugins/parsers"
 )
 
 const MaxBufferSize = 2
@@ -22,10 +23,10 @@ type Point struct {
 	Tags      map[string]string
 }
 
-type WavefrontParser struct {
+type Parser struct {
 	parsers     *sync.Pool
-	defaultTags map[string]string
-	Log         telegraf.Logger `toml:"-"`
+	DefaultTags map[string]string `toml:"-"`
+	Log         telegraf.Logger   `toml:"-"`
 }
 
 // PointParser is a thread-unsafe parser and must be kept in a pool.
@@ -39,7 +40,7 @@ type PointParser struct {
 	scanBuf  bytes.Buffer // buffer reused for scanning tokens
 	writeBuf bytes.Buffer // buffer reused for parsing elements
 	Elements []ElementParser
-	parent   *WavefrontParser
+	parent   *Parser
 }
 
 // NewWavefrontElements returns a slice of ElementParser's for the Graphite format
@@ -53,22 +54,17 @@ func NewWavefrontElements() []ElementParser {
 	return elements
 }
 
-func NewWavefrontParser(defaultTags map[string]string) *WavefrontParser {
-	wp := &WavefrontParser{defaultTags: defaultTags}
-	wp.parsers = &sync.Pool{
+func (p *Parser) Init() error {
+	p.parsers = &sync.Pool{
 		New: func() interface{} {
-			return NewPointParser(wp)
+			elements := NewWavefrontElements()
+			return &PointParser{Elements: elements, parent: p}
 		},
 	}
-	return wp
+	return nil
 }
 
-func NewPointParser(parent *WavefrontParser) *PointParser {
-	elements := NewWavefrontElements()
-	return &PointParser{Elements: elements, parent: parent}
-}
-
-func (p *WavefrontParser) ParseLine(line string) (telegraf.Metric, error) {
+func (p *Parser) ParseLine(line string) (telegraf.Metric, error) {
 	buf := []byte(line)
 
 	metrics, err := p.Parse(buf)
@@ -83,7 +79,7 @@ func (p *WavefrontParser) ParseLine(line string) (telegraf.Metric, error) {
 	return nil, nil
 }
 
-func (p *WavefrontParser) Parse(buf []byte) ([]telegraf.Metric, error) {
+func (p *Parser) Parse(buf []byte) ([]telegraf.Metric, error) {
 	pp := p.parsers.Get().(*PointParser)
 	defer p.parsers.Put(pp)
 	return pp.Parse(buf)
@@ -127,8 +123,8 @@ func (p *PointParser) Parse(buf []byte) ([]telegraf.Metric, error) {
 	return metrics, nil
 }
 
-func (p *WavefrontParser) SetDefaultTags(tags map[string]string) {
-	p.defaultTags = tags
+func (p *Parser) SetDefaultTags(tags map[string]string) {
+	p.DefaultTags = tags
 }
 
 func (p *PointParser) convertPointToTelegrafMetric(points []Point) ([]telegraf.Metric, error) {
@@ -140,7 +136,7 @@ func (p *PointParser) convertPointToTelegrafMetric(points []Point) ([]telegraf.M
 			tags[k] = v
 		}
 		// apply default tags after parsed tags
-		for k, v := range p.parent.defaultTags {
+		for k, v := range p.parent.DefaultTags {
 			tags[k] = v
 		}
 
@@ -218,3 +214,14 @@ func (p *PointParser) reset(buf []byte) {
 	}
 	p.buf.n = 0
 }
+
+func (p *Parser) InitFromConfig(_ *parsers.Config) error {
+	return p.Init()
+}
+
+func init() {
+	parsers.Add("wavefront",
+		func(_ string) telegraf.Parser {
+			return &Parser{}
+		})
+}
diff --git a/plugins/parsers/wavefront/parser_test.go b/plugins/parsers/wavefront/parser_test.go
index 5b655b73d..aadf140d1 100644
--- a/plugins/parsers/wavefront/parser_test.go
+++ b/plugins/parsers/wavefront/parser_test.go
@@ -11,7 +11,8 @@ import (
 )
 
 func TestParse(t *testing.T) {
-	parser := NewWavefrontParser(nil)
+	parser := &Parser{}
+	require.NoError(t, parser.Init())
 
 	parsedMetrics, err := parser.Parse([]byte("test.metric 1"))
 	require.NoError(t, err)
@@ -78,7 +79,8 @@ func TestParse(t *testing.T) {
 }
 
 func TestParseLine(t *testing.T) {
-	parser := NewWavefrontParser(nil)
+	parser := &Parser{}
+	require.NoError(t, parser.Init())
 
 	parsedMetric, err := parser.ParseLine("test.metric 1")
 	require.NoError(t, err)
@@ -113,7 +115,8 @@ func TestParseLine(t *testing.T) {
 }
 
 func TestParseMultiple(t *testing.T) {
-	parser := NewWavefrontParser(nil)
+	parser := &Parser{}
+	require.NoError(t, parser.Init())
 
 	parsedMetrics, err := parser.Parse([]byte("test.metric 1\ntest.metric2 2 1530939936"))
 	require.NoError(t, err)
@@ -148,7 +151,8 @@ func TestParseMultiple(t *testing.T) {
 }
 
 func TestParseSpecial(t *testing.T) {
-	parser := NewWavefrontParser(nil)
+	parser := &Parser{}
+	require.NoError(t, parser.Init())
 
 	parsedMetric, err := parser.ParseLine("\"test.metric\" 1 1530939936")
 	require.NoError(t, err)
@@ -162,7 +166,8 @@ func TestParseSpecial(t *testing.T) {
 }
 
 func TestParseInvalid(t *testing.T) {
-	parser := NewWavefrontParser(nil)
+	parser := &Parser{}
+	require.NoError(t, parser.Init())
 
 	_, err := parser.Parse([]byte("test.metric"))
 	require.Error(t, err)
@@ -193,7 +198,9 @@ func TestParseInvalid(t *testing.T) {
 }
 
 func TestParseDefaultTags(t *testing.T) {
-	parser := NewWavefrontParser(map[string]string{"myDefault": "value1", "another": "test2"})
+	parser := &Parser{}
+	require.NoError(t, parser.Init())
+	parser.SetDefaultTags(map[string]string{"myDefault": "value1", "another": "test2"})
 
 	parsedMetrics, err := parser.Parse([]byte("test.metric 1 1530939936"))
 	require.NoError(t, err)