diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 517abea96..60949047f 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -68,6 +68,7 @@ should now look like:
 - [#1463](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1463): Shared WaitGroup in Exec plugin
 - [#1436](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1436): logparser: honor modifiers in "pattern" config.
 - [#1418](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1418): logparser: error and exit on file permissions/missing errors.
+- [#1499](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1499): Make the user able to specify full path for HAproxy stats
 
 ## v1.0 beta 2 [2016-06-21]
 
diff --git a/plugins/inputs/haproxy/haproxy.go b/plugins/inputs/haproxy/haproxy.go
index 0a0b3da82..9529bad3f 100644
--- a/plugins/inputs/haproxy/haproxy.go
+++ b/plugins/inputs/haproxy/haproxy.go
@@ -92,9 +92,11 @@ type haproxy struct {
 var sampleConfig = `
   ## An array of address to gather stats about. Specify an ip on hostname
   ## with optional port. ie localhost, 10.10.3.33:1936, etc.
-
-  ## If no servers are specified, then default to 127.0.0.1:1936
-  servers = ["http://myhaproxy.com:1936", "http://anotherhaproxy.com:1936"]
+  ## Make sure you specify the complete path to the stats endpoint
+  ## ie 10.10.3.33:1936/haproxy?stats
+  #
+  ## If no servers are specified, then default to 127.0.0.1:1936/haproxy?stats
+  servers = ["http://myhaproxy.com:1936/haproxy?stats"]
   ## Or you can also use local socket
   ## servers = ["socket:/run/haproxy/admin.sock"]
 `
@@ -111,7 +113,7 @@ func (r *haproxy) Description() string {
 // Returns one of the errors encountered while gather stats (if any).
 func (g *haproxy) Gather(acc telegraf.Accumulator) error {
 	if len(g.Servers) == 0 {
-		return g.gatherServer("http://127.0.0.1:1936", acc)
+		return g.gatherServer("http://127.0.0.1:1936/haproxy?stats", acc)
 	}
 
 	var wg sync.WaitGroup
@@ -167,12 +169,16 @@ func (g *haproxy) gatherServer(addr string, acc telegraf.Accumulator) error {
 		g.client = client
 	}
 
+	if !strings.HasSuffix(addr, ";csv") {
+		addr += "/;csv"
+	}
+
 	u, err := url.Parse(addr)
 	if err != nil {
 		return fmt.Errorf("Unable parse server address '%s': %s", addr, err)
 	}
 
-	req, err := http.NewRequest("GET", fmt.Sprintf("%s://%s%s/;csv", u.Scheme, u.Host, u.Path), nil)
+	req, err := http.NewRequest("GET", addr, nil)
 	if u.User != nil {
 		p, _ := u.User.Password()
 		req.SetBasicAuth(u.User.Username(), p)
@@ -184,7 +190,7 @@ func (g *haproxy) gatherServer(addr string, acc telegraf.Accumulator) error {
 	}
 
 	if res.StatusCode != 200 {
-		return fmt.Errorf("Unable to get valid stat result from '%s': %s", addr, err)
+		return fmt.Errorf("Unable to get valid stat result from '%s', http response code : %d", addr, res.StatusCode)
 	}
 
 	return importCsvResult(res.Body, acc, u.Host)
diff --git a/plugins/inputs/haproxy/haproxy_test.go b/plugins/inputs/haproxy/haproxy_test.go
index f9057e0cd..befcabd97 100644
--- a/plugins/inputs/haproxy/haproxy_test.go
+++ b/plugins/inputs/haproxy/haproxy_test.go
@@ -243,7 +243,7 @@ func TestHaproxyDefaultGetFromLocalhost(t *testing.T) {
 
 	err := r.Gather(&acc)
 	require.Error(t, err)
-	assert.Contains(t, err.Error(), "127.0.0.1:1936/;csv")
+	assert.Contains(t, err.Error(), "127.0.0.1:1936/haproxy?stats/;csv")
 }
 
 const csvOutputSample = `