diff --git a/plugins/inputs/vsphere/README.md b/plugins/inputs/vsphere/README.md
index 97184ec0a..3324c088c 100644
--- a/plugins/inputs/vsphere/README.md
+++ b/plugins/inputs/vsphere/README.md
@@ -551,6 +551,8 @@ override the default query interval in the vSphere plugin.
   * Power: energy, usage
 * Datastore stats:
   * Disk: Capacity, provisioned, used
+* Numeric Sensor stats:
+  * CPU: temperature
 
 For a detailed list of commonly available metrics, please refer to
 [METRICS.md](METRICS.md)
diff --git a/plugins/inputs/vsphere/finder.go b/plugins/inputs/vsphere/finder.go
index 8d58653c1..529a6ca92 100644
--- a/plugins/inputs/vsphere/finder.go
+++ b/plugins/inputs/vsphere/finder.go
@@ -263,6 +263,7 @@ func init() {
 		"Datastore":              {"parent", "info", "customValue"},
 		"ClusterComputeResource": {"parent", "customValue"},
 		"Datacenter":             {"parent", "customValue"},
+		"HostNumericSensorInfo":  {"parent", "temperature", "baseUnits"},
 	}
 
 	containers = map[string]interface{}{