diff --git a/docs/source/settings.rst b/docs/source/settings.rst
index e1e91fa76..3a340ed9e 100644
--- a/docs/source/settings.rst
+++ b/docs/source/settings.rst
@@ -443,7 +443,7 @@ Address is a string of the form:
 **Default:** ``''``
 
 A comma-delimited list of datadog statsd (dogstatsd) tags to append to
-statsd metrics.
+statsd metrics. e.g. 'tag1:value1,tag2:value2'
 
 .. versionadded:: 20
 
diff --git a/gunicorn/config.py b/gunicorn/config.py
index 402a26b68..903d3c940 100644
--- a/gunicorn/config.py
+++ b/gunicorn/config.py
@@ -1672,7 +1672,7 @@ class DogstatsdTags(Setting):
     validator = validate_string
     desc = """\
     A comma-delimited list of datadog statsd (dogstatsd) tags to append to
-    statsd metrics.
+    statsd metrics. e.g. 'tag1:value1,tag2:value2'
 
     .. versionadded:: 20
     """