diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-timechart.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-timechart.txt
index 1632b0efc7577a730388154164be888c619ad934..3ff8bd4f0b4d94163d77231881b462e50bbd4e17 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-timechart.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-timechart.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,8 @@ perf-timechart - Tool to visualize total system behavior during a workload
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
 [verse]
-'perf timechart' {record}
+'perf timechart' record <command>
+'perf timechart' [<options>]
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
@@ -41,6 +42,18 @@ OPTIONS
 --symfs=<directory>::
         Look for files with symbols relative to this directory.
 
+EXAMPLES
+--------
+
+$ perf timechart record git pull
+
+  [ perf record: Woken up 13 times to write data ]
+  [ perf record: Captured and wrote 4.253 MB perf.data (~185801 samples) ]
+
+$ perf timechart
+
+  Written 10.2 seconds of trace to output.svg.
+
 SEE ALSO
 --------
 linkperf:perf-record[1]