From ec795849ea082b6c71fb81ffb7a532b9eba41b0b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: James Phillips <slackpad@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2017 21:43:39 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Fetches metrics in the retry loop so there's some hope.

Fixes #3656
---
 api/agent_test.go | 10 ++++------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/api/agent_test.go b/api/agent_test.go
index 7d97a3af7..3787b3642 100644
--- a/api/agent_test.go
+++ b/api/agent_test.go
@@ -37,13 +37,11 @@ func TestAPI_AgentMetrics(t *testing.T) {
 	defer s.Stop()
 
 	agent := c.Agent()
-
-	metrics, err := agent.Metrics()
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("err: %v", err)
-	}
-
 	retry.Run(t, func(r *retry.R) {
+		metrics, err := agent.Metrics()
+		if err != nil {
+			r.Fatalf("err: %v", err)
+		}
 		for _, g := range metrics.Gauges {
 			if g.Name == "consul.runtime.alloc_bytes" {
 				return