diff --git a/java/src/main/java/monasca/persister/repository/InfluxV9RepoWriter.java b/java/src/main/java/monasca/persister/repository/InfluxV9RepoWriter.java
index cc89ee99..ca37d102 100644
--- a/java/src/main/java/monasca/persister/repository/InfluxV9RepoWriter.java
+++ b/java/src/main/java/monasca/persister/repository/InfluxV9RepoWriter.java
@@ -22,18 +22,29 @@ import com.google.inject.Inject;
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
 
 import org.apache.commons.codec.binary.Base64;
+import org.apache.http.Header;
+import org.apache.http.HeaderElement;
 import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;
+import org.apache.http.HttpException;
+import org.apache.http.HttpRequest;
+import org.apache.http.HttpRequestInterceptor;
 import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
+import org.apache.http.HttpResponseInterceptor;
 import org.apache.http.HttpStatus;
+import org.apache.http.client.entity.EntityBuilder;
+import org.apache.http.client.entity.GzipDecompressingEntity;
 import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpPost;
+import org.apache.http.entity.ContentType;
 import org.apache.http.entity.StringEntity;
 import org.apache.http.impl.client.CloseableHttpClient;
 import org.apache.http.impl.client.HttpClients;
 import org.apache.http.impl.conn.PoolingHttpClientConnectionManager;
+import org.apache.http.protocol.HttpContext;
 import org.apache.http.util.EntityUtils;
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 
+import java.io.IOException;
 import java.util.HashMap;
 
 import monasca.persister.configuration.PersisterConfig;
@@ -59,7 +70,6 @@ public class InfluxV9RepoWriter {
 
   private final ObjectMapper objectMapper = new ObjectMapper();
 
-
   @Inject
   public InfluxV9RepoWriter(final PersisterConfig config) {
 
@@ -77,7 +87,44 @@ public class InfluxV9RepoWriter {
     PoolingHttpClientConnectionManager cm = new PoolingHttpClientConnectionManager();
     cm.setMaxTotal(config.getInfluxDBConfiguration().getMaxHttpConnections());
 
-    this.httpClient = HttpClients.custom().setConnectionManager(cm).build();
+    if (config.getInfluxDBConfiguration().getGzip()) {
+
+      this.httpClient =
+          HttpClients.custom().setConnectionManager(cm)
+              .addInterceptorFirst(new HttpRequestInterceptor() {
+
+                public void process(final HttpRequest request, final HttpContext context)
+                    throws HttpException, IOException {
+                  if (!request.containsHeader("Accept-Encoding")) {
+                    request.addHeader("Accept-Encoding", "gzip");
+                  }
+                }
+              }).addInterceptorFirst(new HttpResponseInterceptor() {
+
+            public void process(final HttpResponse response, final HttpContext context)
+                throws HttpException, IOException {
+              HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
+              if (entity != null) {
+                Header ceheader = entity.getContentEncoding();
+                if (ceheader != null) {
+                  HeaderElement[] codecs = ceheader.getElements();
+                  for (int i = 0; i < codecs.length; i++) {
+                    if (codecs[i].getName().equalsIgnoreCase("gzip")) {
+                      response.setEntity(new GzipDecompressingEntity(response.getEntity()));
+                      return;
+                    }
+                  }
+                }
+              }
+            }
+
+          }).build();
+
+    } else {
+
+      this.httpClient = HttpClients.custom().setConnectionManager(cm).build();
+
+    }
 
   }
 
@@ -85,20 +132,39 @@ public class InfluxV9RepoWriter {
 
     HttpPost request = new HttpPost(this.influxUrl);
 
-    request.addHeader("content-type", "application/json");
+    request.addHeader("Content-Type", "application/json");
     request.addHeader("Authorization", this.baseAuthHeader);
 
     InfluxWrite
         influxWrite =
         new InfluxWrite(this.influxName, this.influxRetentionPolicy, influxPointArry,
                         new HashMap());
-    StringEntity params = new StringEntity(this.objectMapper.writeValueAsString(influxWrite));
-    request.setEntity(params);
+
+    String json = this.objectMapper.writeValueAsString(influxWrite);
+
+    if (this.config.getInfluxDBConfiguration().getGzip()) {
+
+      HttpEntity
+          requestEntity =
+          EntityBuilder.create().setText(json).setContentType(ContentType.APPLICATION_JSON)
+              .gzipCompress().build();
+
+      request.setEntity(requestEntity);
+
+      request.addHeader("Content-Encoding", "gzip");
+
+    } else {
+
+      StringEntity stringEntity = new StringEntity(json);
+
+      request.setEntity(stringEntity);
+
+    }
 
     try {
 
-      logger.debug("Writing {} points to influxdb database {} at {}",
-                   influxPointArry.length, this.influxName, this.influxUrl);
+      logger.debug("Writing {} points to influxdb database {} at {}", influxPointArry.length,
+                   this.influxName, this.influxUrl);
 
       HttpResponse response = this.httpClient.execute(request);
 
@@ -106,17 +172,18 @@ public class InfluxV9RepoWriter {
 
       if (rc != HttpStatus.SC_OK) {
 
-        HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
-        String responseString = EntityUtils.toString(entity, "UTF-8");
-        logger.error("Failed to write data to influx database {} at {}: {}",
-                     this.influxName, this.influxUrl, String.valueOf(rc));
+        HttpEntity responseEntity = response.getEntity();
+        String responseString = EntityUtils.toString(responseEntity, "UTF-8");
+        logger.error("Failed to write data to influx database {} at {}: {}", this.influxName,
+                     this.influxUrl, String.valueOf(rc));
         logger.error("Http response: {}", responseString);
 
         throw new Exception(rc + ":" + responseString);
       }
 
-      logger.debug("Successfully wrote {} points to influx database {} at {}",
-                   influxPointArry.length, this.influxName, this.influxUrl);
+      logger
+          .debug("Successfully wrote {} points to influx database {} at {}", influxPointArry.length,
+                 this.influxName, this.influxUrl);
 
     } finally {