diff --git a/tools/asynqmon/cmd/ls.go b/tools/asynqmon/cmd/ls.go
index e503538..f9cfb55 100644
--- a/tools/asynqmon/cmd/ls.go
+++ b/tools/asynqmon/cmd/ls.go
@@ -20,10 +20,10 @@ var validArgs = []string{"enqueued", "inprogress", "scheduled", "retry", "dead"}
 var lsCmd = &cobra.Command{
 	Use:   "ls",
 	Short: "lists queue contents",
-	Long: `The ls command lists all tasks from the given queue in a table format.
+	Long: `The ls command lists all tasks from the specified queue in a table format.
 
-The command takes one argument which specifies the queue. The value
-for the argument should be one of "enqueued", "inprogress", "scheduled",
+The command takes one argument which specifies the queue to inspect. The value
+of the argument should be one of "enqueued", "inprogress", "scheduled",
 "retry", or "dead".
 
 Example: asynqmon ls dead`,
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ func ls(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) {
 	case "dead":
 		listDead(r)
 	default:
-		fmt.Printf("error: `asynqmon ls <queue>` only accepts %v as the argument for queue.\n", validArgs)
+		fmt.Printf("error: `asynqmon ls <queue>` only accepts %v as the argument.\n", validArgs)
 		return
 	}
 }
diff --git a/tools/asynqmon/cmd/root.go b/tools/asynqmon/cmd/root.go
index 49b2ea1..9bc08ac 100644
--- a/tools/asynqmon/cmd/root.go
+++ b/tools/asynqmon/cmd/root.go
@@ -19,12 +19,13 @@ var db int
 var rootCmd = &cobra.Command{
 	Use:   "asynqmon",
 	Short: "A monitoring tool for asynq queues",
-	Long: `TODO(hibiken): A longer description that spans multiple lines and likely contains
-examples and usage of using your application. For example:
+	Long: `Asynqmon is a CLI tool to inspect and monitor queues managed by asynq package.
 
-Cobra is a CLI library for Go that empowers applications.
-This application is a tool to generate the needed files
-to quickly create a Cobra application.`,
+Asynqmon has a few subcommands to show the current state of the queues, while others were
+used to make manual changes to the queues. Monitoring commands can be used in conjunction 
+with the "watch" command to continuously run the command at a certain interval.
+	
+Example: watch -n 5 asynqmon stats`,
 	// Uncomment the following line if your bare application
 	// has an action associated with it:
 	//	Run: func(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) { },