diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 9fa599e14..7df4a26a9 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -133,11 +133,14 @@ path = [ "/opt", "/home" ]
 
 ## Supported Plugins
 
-Telegraf currently has support for collecting metrics from:
+**You can view usage instructions for each plugin by running**
+`telegraf -usage <pluginname>`
+
+Telegraf currently has support for collecting metrics from
 
 * disque
 * elasticsearch
-* exec (generic executable JSON-gathering plugin)
+* exec (generic JSON-emitting executable plugin)
 * haproxy
 * httpjson (generic JSON-emitting http service plugin)
 * kafka_consumer
diff --git a/plugins/mysql/mysql.go b/plugins/mysql/mysql.go
index a55006a4d..9714b25e9 100644
--- a/plugins/mysql/mysql.go
+++ b/plugins/mysql/mysql.go
@@ -16,7 +16,9 @@ type Mysql struct {
 var sampleConfig = `
 # specify servers via a url matching:
 #  [username[:password]@][protocol[(address)]]/[?tls=[true|false|skip-verify]]
-#  e.g. root:root@http://10.0.0.18/?tls=false
+#  e.g.
+#    root:root@http://10.0.0.18/?tls=false
+#    root:passwd@tcp(127.0.0.1:3036)/
 #
 # If no servers are specified, then localhost is used as the host.
 servers = ["localhost"]`
diff --git a/plugins/postgresql/postgresql.go b/plugins/postgresql/postgresql.go
index 85479577d..9312c4aa4 100644
--- a/plugins/postgresql/postgresql.go
+++ b/plugins/postgresql/postgresql.go
@@ -25,11 +25,11 @@ var sampleConfig = `
 #   postgres://[pqgotest[:password]]@localhost?sslmode=[disable|verify-ca|verify-full]
 # or a simple string:
 #   host=localhost user=pqotest password=... sslmode=...
-# 
+#
 # All connection parameters are optional. By default, the host is localhost
 # and the user is the currently running user. For localhost, we default
 # to sslmode=disable as well.
-# 
+#
 
 address = "sslmode=disable"