diff --git a/.circleci/config.yml b/.circleci/config.yml
index 2399d0c19bf..8b6d8506800 100644
--- a/.circleci/config.yml
+++ b/.circleci/config.yml
@@ -17,6 +17,22 @@ jobs:
           name: check documentation spelling errors
           command: 'codespell -I ./words_to_ignore.txt docs/'
 
+  gometalinter:
+    docker:
+      - image: circleci/golang:1.10
+    working_directory: /go/src/github.com/grafana/grafana
+    steps:
+      - checkout
+      - run:
+          name: install gometalinter tool
+          command: 'go get -u github.com/alecthomas/gometalinter'
+      - run:
+          name: install linters
+          command: 'gometalinter --install'
+      - run:
+          name: run some linters
+          command: 'gometalinter --vendor --deadline 6m --disable-all --enable=structcheck --enable=unconvert --enable=varcheck ./...'
+
   test-frontend:
     docker:
       - image: circleci/node:6.11.4
@@ -123,6 +139,10 @@ workflows:
           filters:
             tags:
               only: /.*/
+      - gometalinter:
+          filters:
+            tags:
+              only: /.*/
       - build:
           filters:
             tags:
diff --git a/pkg/services/alerting/engine.go b/pkg/services/alerting/engine.go
index a6f97333d1b..0945a2a5330 100644
--- a/pkg/services/alerting/engine.go
+++ b/pkg/services/alerting/engine.go
@@ -15,8 +15,8 @@ import (
 )
 
 type Engine struct {
-	execQueue     chan *Job
-	clock         clock.Clock
+	execQueue chan *Job
+	//clock         clock.Clock
 	ticker        *Ticker
 	scheduler     Scheduler
 	evalHandler   EvalHandler
diff --git a/pkg/services/alerting/reader.go b/pkg/services/alerting/reader.go
index 45f0c65d4fb..627159c286b 100644
--- a/pkg/services/alerting/reader.go
+++ b/pkg/services/alerting/reader.go
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ type RuleReader interface {
 
 type DefaultRuleReader struct {
 	sync.RWMutex
-	serverID       string
+	//serverID       string
 	serverPosition int
 	clusterSize    int
 	log            log.Logger
diff --git a/pkg/services/sqlstore/migrator/migrations.go b/pkg/services/sqlstore/migrator/migrations.go
index 5232e65d62b..4e6402a14e5 100644
--- a/pkg/services/sqlstore/migrator/migrations.go
+++ b/pkg/services/sqlstore/migrator/migrations.go
@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ type CopyTableDataMigration struct {
 	targetTable string
 	sourceCols  []string
 	targetCols  []string
-	colMap      map[string]string
+	//colMap      map[string]string
 }
 
 func NewCopyTableDataMigration(targetTable string, sourceTable string, colMap map[string]string) *CopyTableDataMigration {