OpenStack Sensu Agent Parsing Error on Startup

Issue

We have configured Sensu to check for OpenStack processes using checks inside of /etc/sensu/conf.d. However after adding these checks the message listed below is now showing up in the Sensu logs:

{"timestamp":"2015-12-14T15:50:04.454605-0500","level":"warn","message":"reconnecting to transport"}
/usr/share/gems/gems/multi_json-1.10.1/lib/multi_json/adapters/json_common.rb:21:in `encode': "\xE2" from ASCII-8BIT to UTF-8 (Encoding::UndefinedConversionError)
from /usr/share/gems/gems/multi_json-1.10.1/lib/multi_json/adapters/json_common.rb:21:in `to_json'
from /usr/share/gems/gems/multi_json-1.10.1/lib/multi_json/adapters/json_common.rb:21:in `dump'
from /usr/share/gems/gems/multi_json-1.10.1/lib/multi_json/adapter.rb:24:in `dump'
from /usr/share/gems/gems/multi_json-1.10.1/lib/multi_json.rb:136:in `dump'
from /usr/share/gems/gems/sensu-logger-1.0.0/lib/sensu/logger/stream.rb:127:in `create_log_event'
from /usr/share/gems/gems/sensu-logger-1.0.0/lib/sensu/logger/stream.rb:51:in `add'
from /usr/share/gems/gems/sensu-logger-1.0.0/lib/sensu/logger/stream.rb:31:in `block (2 levels) in create_level_methods'
from /usr/share/gems/gems/sensu-0.16.0/lib/sensu/client.rb:56:in `publish_result'
from /usr/share/gems/gems/sensu-0.16.0/lib/sensu/client.rb:105:in `block in execute_check_command'
from /usr/share/gems/gems/em-worker-0.0.2/lib/em/worker.rb:21:in `call'
from /usr/share/gems/gems/em-worker-0.0.2/lib/em/worker.rb:21:in `block (2 levels) in do_task'
from /usr/share/gems/gems/eventmachine-1.0.6/lib/eventmachine.rb:960:in `call'
from /usr/share/gems/gems/eventmachine-1.0.6/lib/eventmachine.rb:960:in `run_deferred_callbacks'
from /usr/share/gems/gems/eventmachine-1.0.6/lib/eventmachine.rb:187:in `run_machine'
from /usr/share/gems/gems/eventmachine-1.0.6/lib/eventmachine.rb:187:in `run'
from /usr/share/gems/gems/sensu-0.16.0/lib/sensu/client.rb:12:in `run'
from /usr/share/gems/gems/sensu-0.16.0/bin/sensu-client:10:in `<top (required)>'
from /usr/bin/sensu-client:23:in `load'
from /usr/bin/sensu-client:23:in `<main>'