diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 4dd2754ec0910..33c804794dadb 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ next_version := 1.16.0
 tag := $(shell git describe --exact-match --tags 2>git_describe_error.tmp; rm -f git_describe_error.tmp)
 branch := $(shell git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD)
 commit := $(shell git rev-parse --short=8 HEAD)
+glibc_version := 2.17
 
 ifdef NIGHTLY
 	version := $(next_version)
@@ -191,6 +192,7 @@ install: $(buildbin)
 	@if [ $(GOOS) != "windows" ]; then cp -fv etc/telegraf.conf $(DESTDIR)$(sysconfdir)/telegraf/telegraf.conf$(conf_suffix); fi
 	@if [ $(GOOS) != "windows" ]; then cp -fv etc/logrotate.d/telegraf $(DESTDIR)$(sysconfdir)/logrotate.d; fi
 	@if [ $(GOOS) = "windows" ]; then cp -fv etc/telegraf_windows.conf $(DESTDIR)/telegraf.conf; fi
+	@if [ $(GOOS) = "linux" ]; then scripts/check-dynamic-glibc-versions.sh $(buildbin) $(glibc_version); fi
 	@if [ $(GOOS) = "linux" ]; then mkdir -pv $(DESTDIR)$(prefix)/lib/telegraf/scripts; fi
 	@if [ $(GOOS) = "linux" ]; then cp -fv scripts/telegraf.service $(DESTDIR)$(prefix)/lib/telegraf/scripts; fi
 	@if [ $(GOOS) = "linux" ]; then cp -fv scripts/init.sh $(DESTDIR)$(prefix)/lib/telegraf/scripts; fi
diff --git a/scripts/check-dynamic-glibc-versions.sh b/scripts/check-dynamic-glibc-versions.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000000..a89dae107bc8d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/check-dynamic-glibc-versions.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,77 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+set -euo pipefail
+IFS=$'\n\t'
+
+usage () {
+    echo "Check that no dynamic symbols provided by glibc are newer than a given version"
+    echo "Usage:"
+    echo "   $0 program version"
+    echo "where program is the elf binary to check and version is a dotted version string like 2.3.4"
+    exit 1
+}
+
+#validate input and display help
+[[ $# = 2 ]] || usage
+prog=$1
+max=$2
+
+#make sure dependencies are installed
+have_deps=true
+for i in objdump sort uniq sed; do
+    if ! command -v "$i" > /dev/null; then
+	echo "$i not in path"
+	have_deps=false
+    fi
+done
+if [[ $have_deps = false ]]; then
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+#compare dotted versions
+#see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4023830/how-to-compare-two-strings-in-dot-separated-version-format-in-bash
+vercomp () {
+    if [[ $1 == $2 ]]
+    then
+        return 0
+    fi
+    local IFS=.
+    local i ver1=($1) ver2=($2)
+    # fill empty fields in ver1 with zeros
+    for ((i=${#ver1[@]}; i<${#ver2[@]}; i++))
+    do
+        ver1[i]=0
+    done
+    for ((i=0; i<${#ver1[@]}; i++))
+    do
+        if [[ -z ${ver2[i]} ]]
+        then
+            # fill empty fields in ver2 with zeros
+            ver2[i]=0
+        fi
+        if ((10#${ver1[i]} > 10#${ver2[i]}))
+        then
+            return 1
+        fi
+        if ((10#${ver1[i]} < 10#${ver2[i]}))
+        then
+            return 2
+        fi
+    done
+    return 0
+}
+
+objdump -T "$prog" | # get the dynamic symbol table
+    sed -n "s/.* GLIBC_\([0-9.]\+\).*/\1/p" | # find the entries for glibc and grab the version
+    sort | uniq | # remove duplicates
+    while read v; do
+        set +e
+        vercomp "$v" "$max" # fail if any version is newer than our max
+        comp=$?
+        set -e
+        if [[ $comp -eq 1 ]]; then
+            echo "$v is newer than $max"
+            exit 1
+        fi
+    done
+
+exit 0