From 8c28661ca7f48980aaa8b3b8882e4b4afd791474 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: James DeFelice <james.defelice@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2020 14:13:23 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] [fix] add missing error check for HTTP req failure (#8071)

---
 plugins/inputs/kubernetes/kubernetes.go | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/plugins/inputs/kubernetes/kubernetes.go b/plugins/inputs/kubernetes/kubernetes.go
index 0a4261fc1..a9bb6ef48 100644
--- a/plugins/inputs/kubernetes/kubernetes.go
+++ b/plugins/inputs/kubernetes/kubernetes.go
@@ -207,6 +207,9 @@ func (k *Kubernetes) gatherPodInfo(baseURL string) ([]Metadata, error) {
 
 func (k *Kubernetes) LoadJson(url string, v interface{}) error {
 	var req, err = http.NewRequest("GET", url, nil)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
 	var resp *http.Response
 	tlsCfg, err := k.ClientConfig.TLSConfig()
 	if err != nil {