From 2a63f711a37e06e7633a1e00777c21b7c5a0f2b0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Varun C <varunchi@amazon.com>
Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2025 17:29:22 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] nonamederrors fix

---
 plugins/outputs/cloudwatch/util.go | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/plugins/outputs/cloudwatch/util.go b/plugins/outputs/cloudwatch/util.go
index f1386c144b..45d4b30e9c 100644
--- a/plugins/outputs/cloudwatch/util.go
+++ b/plugins/outputs/cloudwatch/util.go
@@ -100,12 +100,12 @@ func resize(dist distribution.Distribution, listMaxSize int) (distList []distrib
 }
 
 func payload(datum *cloudwatch.MetricDatum, entity *cloudwatch.Entity) (size int) {
+	size += timestampSize
+
 	if entity != nil {
 		size += calculateEntitySize(*entity)
 	}
 
-	size += timestampSize
-
 	for _, dimension := range datum.Dimensions {
 		size += len(*dimension.Name) + len(*dimension.Value) + dimensionOverheads
 	}