diff --git a/contrib/inventory/consul_io.py b/contrib/inventory/consul_io.py
index cf622ed6c4a..bc84d19a2e5 100755
--- a/contrib/inventory/consul_io.py
+++ b/contrib/inventory/consul_io.py
@@ -50,6 +50,12 @@ Other options include:
 
 which restricts the included nodes to those from the given datacenter
 
+'url':
+
+the URL of the Consul cluster. host, port and scheme are derived from the
+URL. If not specified, connection configuration defaults to http requests
+to localhost on port 8500.
+
 'domain':
 
 if specified then the inventory will generate domain names that will resolve
@@ -95,7 +101,7 @@ kv_metadata is used to lookup metadata for each discovered node. Like kv_groups
 above it is used to build a path to lookup in the kv store where it expects to
 find a json dictionary of metadata entries. If found, each key/value pair in the
 dictionary is added to the metadata for the node. eg node 'nyc-web-1' in datacenter
-'nyc-dc1' and kv_metadata = 'ansible/metadata', then the key 
+'nyc-dc1' and kv_metadata = 'ansible/metadata', then the key
 'ansible/groups/nyc-dc1/nyc-web-1' should contain '{"databse": "postgres"}'
 
 'availability':