diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index dc2517e6fb4..cfb379292f0 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -122,6 +122,7 @@ With this release the systemd configuration files for InfluxDB will use the syst
 - [#7107](https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb/pull/7107): Limit shard concurrency
 - [#7028](https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb/pull/7028): Do not run continuous queries that have no time span.
 - [#7025](https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb/issues/7025): Move the CQ interval by the group by offset.
+- [#7125](https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb/pull/7125): Ensure gzip writer is closed in influx_inspect export
 
 ## v0.13.0 [2016-05-12]
 
diff --git a/cmd/influx_inspect/export.go b/cmd/influx_inspect/export.go
index af1ab34c4b4..df8114a7ead 100644
--- a/cmd/influx_inspect/export.go
+++ b/cmd/influx_inspect/export.go
@@ -97,6 +97,7 @@ func (c *cmdExport) writeFiles() error {
 	defer w.Close()
 	if c.compress {
 		w = gzip.NewWriter(w)
+		defer w.Close()
 	}
 
 	// Write out all the DDL