diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 280a518762a02f919b44446db02d333ebe788796..dcd3b43d3afc6e1331c87e85e40fc2f09114922f 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -10,7 +10,13 @@
 
 - [#1949](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1949): Fix windows `net` plugin.
 
-## v1.1 [unreleased]
+## v1.1.1 [unreleased]
+
+### Bugfixes
+
+- [#2023](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/2023): Fix issue parsing toml durations with single quotes.
+
+## v1.1.0 [2016-11-07]
 
 ### Release Notes
 
diff --git a/internal/internal.go b/internal/internal.go
index 28b37c09f2f1bd6814c8631dd926887cdfeb3236..aae7aa773f87e9299d28c8051cd0c4ea20ecd10a 100644
--- a/internal/internal.go
+++ b/internal/internal.go
@@ -35,8 +35,9 @@ type Duration struct {
 // UnmarshalTOML parses the duration from the TOML config file
 func (d *Duration) UnmarshalTOML(b []byte) error {
 	var err error
+	b = bytes.Trim(b, `'`)
 
-	// see if we can straight convert it
+	// see if we can directly convert it
 	d.Duration, err = time.ParseDuration(string(b))
 	if err == nil {
 		return nil
diff --git a/internal/internal_test.go b/internal/internal_test.go
index 0d98218575be8e5afaf604303a7cddd5a523a3bf..aafc1929a57f51700f23f7bf416bbce20a1213b0 100644
--- a/internal/internal_test.go
+++ b/internal/internal_test.go
@@ -142,6 +142,10 @@ func TestDuration(t *testing.T) {
 	d.UnmarshalTOML([]byte(`1s`))
 	assert.Equal(t, time.Second, d.Duration)
 
+	d = Duration{}
+	d.UnmarshalTOML([]byte(`'1s'`))
+	assert.Equal(t, time.Second, d.Duration)
+
 	d = Duration{}
 	d.UnmarshalTOML([]byte(`10`))
 	assert.Equal(t, 10*time.Second, d.Duration)