diff --git a/plugins/inputs/mcrouter/mcrouter_test.go b/plugins/inputs/mcrouter/mcrouter_test.go
index 5e5adbc53..ab88f879a 100644
--- a/plugins/inputs/mcrouter/mcrouter_test.go
+++ b/plugins/inputs/mcrouter/mcrouter_test.go
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import (
 	"fmt"
 	"strings"
 	"testing"
+	"time"
 
 	"github.com/docker/go-connections/nat"
 	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
@@ -72,77 +73,22 @@ func TestMcrouterGeneratesMetricsIntegration(t *testing.T) {
 
 	var acc testutil.Accumulator
 
-	err = acc.GatherError(m.Gather)
-	require.NoError(t, err)
+	// wait for the uptime stat to show up
+	require.Eventually(t, func() bool {
+		err = acc.GatherError(m.Gather)
+		require.NoError(t, err)
+		return acc.HasInt64Field("mcrouter", "uptime")
+	}, 5*time.Second, 10*time.Millisecond)
 
 	intMetrics := []string{
 		"uptime",
-		// "num_servers",
-		// "num_servers_new",
-		// "num_servers_up",
-		// "num_servers_down",
-		// "num_servers_closed",
-		// "num_clients",
-		// "num_suspect_servers",
-		// "destination_batches_sum",
-		// "destination_requests_sum",
-		// "outstanding_route_get_reqs_queued",
-		// "outstanding_route_update_reqs_queued",
-		// "outstanding_route_get_avg_queue_size",
-		// "outstanding_route_update_avg_queue_size",
-		// "outstanding_route_get_avg_wait_time_sec",
-		// "outstanding_route_update_avg_wait_time_sec",
-		// "retrans_closed_connections",
-		// "destination_pending_reqs",
-		// "destination_inflight_reqs",
-		// "destination_batch_size",
-		// "asynclog_requests",
-		// "proxy_reqs_processing",
-		// "proxy_reqs_waiting",
-		// "client_queue_notify_period",
-		// "ps_num_minor_faults",
-		// "ps_num_major_faults",
-		// "ps_vsize",
-		// "ps_rss",
-		// "fibers_allocated",
-		// "fibers_pool_size",
-		// "fibers_stack_high_watermark",
-		// "successful_client_connections",
-		// "duration_us",
-		// "destination_max_pending_reqs",
-		// "destination_max_inflight_reqs",
-		// "retrans_per_kbyte_max",
-		// "cmd_get_count",
-		// "cmd_delete_out",
-		// "cmd_lease_get",
 		"cmd_set",
-		// "cmd_get_out_all",
-		// "cmd_get_out",
-		// "cmd_lease_set_count",
-		// "cmd_other_out_all",
-		// "cmd_lease_get_out",
-		// "cmd_set_count",
-		// "cmd_lease_set_out",
-		// "cmd_delete_count",
-		// "cmd_other",
-		// "cmd_delete",
 		"cmd_get",
-		// "cmd_lease_set",
-		// "cmd_set_out",
-		// "cmd_lease_get_count",
-		// "cmd_other_out",
-		// "cmd_lease_get_out_all",
-		// "cmd_set_out_all",
-		// "cmd_other_count",
-		// "cmd_delete_out_all",
-		// "cmd_lease_set_out_all"
 	}
 
 	floatMetrics := []string{
 		"rusage_system",
 		"rusage_user",
-		// "ps_user_time_sec",
-		// "ps_system_time_sec",
 	}
 
 	for _, metric := range intMetrics {