diff --git a/plugins/exec/README.md b/plugins/exec/README.md
index 456ab2b77..7aa52db33 100644
--- a/plugins/exec/README.md
+++ b/plugins/exec/README.md
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # Exec Plugin
 
-The exec plugin can execute arbitrary commands which return flattened
-JSON.
+The exec plugin can execute arbitrary commands which output JSON. Then it flattens JSON and finds
+all numeric values, treating them as floats.
 
 For example, if you have a json-returning command called mycollector, you could
 setup the exec plugin with:
@@ -18,3 +18,25 @@ The name is used as a prefix for the measurements.
 The interval is used to determine how often a particular command should be run. Each
 time the exec plugin runs, it will only run a particular command if it has been at least
 `interval` seconds since the exec plugin last ran the command.
+
+
+# Sample
+
+Let's say that we have a command named "mycollector", which gives the following output:
+```json
+{
+    "a": 0.5,
+    "b": {
+        "c": "some text",
+        "d": 0.1,
+        "e": 5
+    }
+}
+```
+
+The collected metrics will be:
+```
+exec_mycollector_a value=0.5
+exec_mycollector_b_d value=0.1
+exec_mycollector_b_e value=5
+```