diff --git a/gunicorn/config.py b/gunicorn/config.py
index 2dcf64d0..d4f75068 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
     """