diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 8632e7cb621352a55be0196e2b02fb4a02b94563..2eb9fa652ce71b2f620ecc4ff474dab505aedbf0 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
 - [#778](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/778): Adding a TCP input listener.
 - [#797](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/797): Provide option for persistent MQTT consumer client sessions.
 - [#799](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/799): Add number of threads for procstat input plugin. Thanks @titilambert!
+- [#776](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/776): Add Zookeeper chroot option to kafka_consumer. Thanks @prune998!
 
 ### Bugfixes
 - [#748](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/748): Fix sensor plugin split on ":"
diff --git a/plugins/inputs/kafka_consumer/kafka_consumer.go b/plugins/inputs/kafka_consumer/kafka_consumer.go
index 0d2a49f89a75dd0b17a066198a418bae3d70ec6e..07c87199f3d289ec34f4bed5a4999bbd2595bc5b 100644
--- a/plugins/inputs/kafka_consumer/kafka_consumer.go
+++ b/plugins/inputs/kafka_consumer/kafka_consumer.go
@@ -14,11 +14,11 @@ import (
 )
 
 type Kafka struct {
-	ConsumerGroup  string
-	Topics         []string
-	ZookeeperPeers []string
+	ConsumerGroup   string
+	Topics          []string
+	ZookeeperPeers  []string
 	ZookeeperChroot string
-	Consumer       *consumergroup.ConsumerGroup
+	Consumer        *consumergroup.ConsumerGroup
 
 	// Legacy metric buffer support
 	MetricBuffer int