feat(config): Add default stdout output plugin#19219
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Summary
Addresses open issue: #16718
Modern applications use an approach called zero configuration, in which the default configuration file is 100% valid.
Today, telegraf takes a more classical approach, requiring the user to customize configuration. Otherwise the application crashes. That's an awful out of the box experience.
Instead of bombing out with generic parse error messages on the stock configuration file, telegraf should automatically set outputs.file to ["stdout"].
By the way, the default configuration file has many gaps in terms of failing to mention the default configuration, for about half of the assorted fields. Many of the fields fail to nest comments, further complicating the default behavior.
The documentation occasionally hints at a need to customize outputs, but that's still a far cry from zeroconf.
Expected behavior
Output to stdout by default, so that the telegraf config default configuration file finally becomes 100% valid.
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resolves #16718