Use the DefaultURL parameter if no url is explicitly set by the user

closes #1278
closes #1277

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ time before a new metric is included by the plugin.
 - [#1265](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1265): Make dns lookups for chrony configurable. Thanks @zbindenren!
 - [#1275](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1275): Allow wildcard filtering of varnish stats.
 - [#1142](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1142): Support for glob patterns in exec plugin commands configuration.
+- [#1278](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1278): RabbitMQ input: made url parameter optional by using DefaultURL (http://localhost:15672) if not specified
 
 ### Bugfixes
 

etc/telegraf.conf

@@ -1176,7 +1176,7 @@
 
 # # Read metrics from one or many RabbitMQ servers via the management API
 # [[inputs.rabbitmq]]
-#   url = "http://localhost:15672" # required
+#   # url = "http://localhost:15672"
 #   # name = "rmq-server-1" # optional tag
 #   # username = "guest"
 #   # password = "guest"

plugins/inputs/rabbitmq/rabbitmq.go

@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ type gatherFunc func(r *RabbitMQ, acc telegraf.Accumulator, errChan chan error)
 var gatherFunctions = []gatherFunc{gatherOverview, gatherNodes, gatherQueues}
 
 var sampleConfig = `
-  url = "http://localhost:15672" # required
+  # url = "http://localhost:15672"
   # name = "rmq-server-1" # optional tag
   # username = "guest"
   # password = "guest"
@@ -146,6 +146,9 @@ func (r *RabbitMQ) Gather(acc telegraf.Accumulator) error {
 }
 
 func (r *RabbitMQ) requestJSON(u string, target interface{}) error {
+	if r.URL == "" {
+		r.URL = DefaultURL
+	}
 	u = fmt.Sprintf("%s%s", r.URL, u)
 
 	req, err := http.NewRequest("GET", u, nil)