diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 7949ea01cb712..caaaef7ba2323 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 - [#226](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/pull/226): Add timestamps to points in Kafka/AMQP outputs. Thanks @ekini
 - [#90](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/issues/90): Add Docker labels to tags in docker plugin
 - [#223](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/pull/223): Add port tag to nginx plugin. Thanks @neezgee!
+- [#227](https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf/pull/227): Add command intervals to exec plugin. Thanks @jpalay!
 
 ### Bugfixes
 
diff --git a/plugins/exec/exec.go b/plugins/exec/exec.go
index c9d115312d774..d37f36c72cd7b 100644
--- a/plugins/exec/exec.go
+++ b/plugins/exec/exec.go
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ func (c CommandRunner) Run(command *Command) ([]byte, error) {
 	cmd.Stdout = &out
 
 	if err := cmd.Run(); err != nil {
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("exec: %s for command '%s'", err, command)
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("exec: %s for command '%s'", err, command.Command)
 	}
 
 	return out.Bytes(), nil