diff --git a/maxctrl/lib/common.js b/maxctrl/lib/common.js
index fce630d67..bcadc6aad 100644
--- a/maxctrl/lib/common.js
+++ b/maxctrl/lib/common.js
@@ -412,6 +412,24 @@ module.exports = function() {
     this.error = function(err) {
         return Promise.reject(colors.red('Error: ') +  err)
     }
+
+    this.fieldDescriptions = function(fields) {
+        var t = new Table({chars: {
+            'top' : '', 'top-mid': '', 'top-left': '', 'top-right': '', 'left': ' ', 'right': '',
+            'left-mid': '' , 'mid': '' , 'mid-mid': '', 'right-mid': '' , 'middle': '',
+            'bottom' : '', 'bottom-mid': '', 'bottom-left': '', 'bottom-right': '',
+        }})
+
+        t.push(['Field', 'Description'])
+        t.push(['-----', '-----------'])
+
+
+        for (f of fields) {
+            t.push([f.name, f.description])
+        }
+
+        return '\n\n' + t.toString()
+    }
 }
 
 
@@ -431,8 +449,6 @@ var tsvopts = {
         'padding-right': 0,
         compact: true
     },
-
-
 }
 
 function getList() {
diff --git a/maxctrl/lib/list.js b/maxctrl/lib/list.js
index 8789cd257..72124ab40 100644
--- a/maxctrl/lib/list.js
+++ b/maxctrl/lib/list.js
@@ -17,26 +17,32 @@ const list_servers_fields = [
     {
         name: 'Server',
         path: 'id',
+        description: 'Server name'
     },
     {
         name: 'Address',
         path: 'attributes.parameters.address',
+        description: 'Address where the server listens'
     },
     {
         name: 'Port',
         path: 'attributes.parameters.port',
+        description: 'The port on which the server listens'
     },
     {
         name: 'Connections',
         path: 'attributes.statistics.connections',
+        description: 'Current connection count'
     },
     {
         name: 'State',
         path: 'attributes.state',
+        description: 'Server state'
     },
     {
         name: 'GTID',
         path: 'attributes.gtid_current_pos',
+        description: 'Current value of @@gtid_current_pos'
     }
 ]
 
@@ -44,22 +50,27 @@ const list_services_fields = [
     {
         name: 'Service',
         path: 'id',
+        description: 'Service name'
     },
     {
         name: 'Router',
         path: 'attributes.router',
+        description: 'Router used by the service'
     },
     {
         name: 'Connections',
         path: 'attributes.connections',
+        description: 'Current connection count'
     },
     {
         name: 'Total Connections',
         path: 'attributes.total_connections',
+        description: 'Total connection count'
     },
     {
         name: 'Servers',
         path: 'relationships.servers.data[].id',
+        description: 'Servers that the service uses'
     }
 ]
 
@@ -67,18 +78,22 @@ const list_listeners_fields = [
     {
         name: 'Name',
         path: 'id',
+        description: 'Listener name'
     },
     {
         name: 'Port',
         path: 'attributes.parameters.port',
+        description: 'The port where the listener listens'
     },
     {
         name: 'Host',
         path: 'attributes.parameters.host',
+        description: 'The address or socket where the listener listens'
     },
     {
         name: 'State',
         path: 'attributes.state',
+        description: 'Listener state'
     }
 ]
 
@@ -86,14 +101,17 @@ const list_monitors_fields = [
     {
         name: 'Monitor',
         path: 'id',
+        description: 'Monitor name'
     },
     {
         name: 'State',
         path: 'attributes.state',
+        description: 'Monitor state'
     },
     {
         name: 'Servers',
         path: 'relationships.servers.data[].id',
+        description: 'The servers that this monitor monitors'
     }
 ]
 
@@ -101,26 +119,32 @@ const list_sessions_fields = [
     {
         name: 'Id',
         path: 'id',
+        description: 'Session ID'
     },
     {
         name: 'User',
         path: 'attributes.user',
+        description: 'Username'
     },
     {
         name: 'Host',
         path: 'attributes.remote',
+        description: 'Client host address'
     },
     {
         name: 'Connected',
         path: 'attributes.connected',
+        description: 'Time when the session started'
     },
     {
         name: 'Idle',
         path: 'attributes.idle',
+        description: 'How long the session has been idle, in seconds'
     },
     {
         name: 'Service',
         path: 'relationships.services.data[].id',
+        description: 'The service where the session connected'
     }
 ]
 
@@ -128,14 +152,17 @@ const list_filters_fields = [
     {
         name: 'Filter',
         path: 'id',
+        description: 'Filter name'
     },
     {
         name: 'Service',
         path: 'relationships.services.data[].id',
+        description: 'Services that use the filter'
     },
     {
         name: 'Module',
         path: 'attributes.module',
+        description: 'The module that the filter uses'
     }
 ]
 
@@ -143,14 +170,17 @@ const list_modules_fields = [
     {
         name: 'Module',
         path: 'id',
+        description: 'Module name'
     },
     {
         name: 'Type',
         path: 'attributes.module_type',
+        description: 'Module type'
     },
     {
         name: 'Version',
         path: 'attributes.version',
+        description: 'Module version'
     }
 ]
 
@@ -158,26 +188,32 @@ const list_threads_fields = [
     {
         name: 'Id',
         path: 'id',
+        description: 'Thread ID'
     },
     {
         name: 'Current FDs',
         path: 'attributes.stats.current_descriptors',
+        description: 'Current number of managed file descriptors'
     },
     {
         name: 'Total FDs',
         path: 'attributes.stats.total_descriptors',
+        description: 'Total number of managed file descriptors'
     },
     {
         name: 'Load (1s)',
         path: 'attributes.stats.load.last_second',
+        description: 'Load percentage over the last second'
     },
     {
         name: 'Load (1m)',
         path: 'attributes.stats.load.last_minute',
+        description: 'Load percentage over the last minute'
     },
     {
         name: 'Load (1h)',
         path: 'attributes.stats.load.last_hour',
+        description: 'Load percentage over the last hour'
     }
 ]
 
@@ -185,14 +221,17 @@ const list_users_fields = [
     {
         name: 'Name',
         path: 'id',
+        description: 'User name'
     },
     {
         name: 'Type',
         path: 'type',
+        description: 'User type'
     },
     {
         name: 'Privileges',
         path: 'attributes.account',
+        description: 'User privileges'
     },
 ]
 
@@ -200,10 +239,12 @@ const list_commands_fields = [
     {
         name: 'Module',
         path: 'id',
+        description: 'Module name'
     },
     {
         name: 'Commands',
         path: 'attributes.commands[].id',
+        description: 'Available commands'
     }
 ]
 
@@ -213,7 +254,8 @@ exports.handler = function() {}
 exports.builder = function(yargs) {
     yargs
         .command('servers', 'List servers', function(yargs) {
-            return yargs.epilog('List all servers in MaxScale.')
+            return yargs.epilog('List all servers in MaxScale.' +
+                                fieldDescriptions(list_servers_fields))
                 .usage('Usage: list servers')
         }, function(argv) {
             maxctrl(argv, function(host) {
@@ -260,7 +302,8 @@ exports.builder = function(yargs) {
             })
         })
         .command('services', 'List services', function(yargs) {
-            return yargs.epilog('List all services and the servers they use.')
+            return yargs.epilog('List all services and the servers they use.' +
+                                fieldDescriptions(list_services_fields))
                 .usage('Usage: list services')
         }, function(argv) {
             maxctrl(argv, function(host) {
@@ -268,7 +311,8 @@ exports.builder = function(yargs) {
             })
         })
         .command('listeners <service>', 'List listeners of a service', function(yargs) {
-            return yargs.epilog('List listeners for a service.')
+            return yargs.epilog('List listeners for a service.' +
+                                fieldDescriptions(list_listeners_fields))
                 .usage('Usage: list listeners <service>')
         }, function(argv) {
             maxctrl(argv, function(host) {
@@ -276,7 +320,8 @@ exports.builder = function(yargs) {
             })
         })
         .command('monitors', 'List monitors', function(yargs) {
-            return yargs.epilog('List all monitors in MaxScale.')
+            return yargs.epilog('List all monitors in MaxScale.' +
+                                fieldDescriptions(list_monitors_fields))
                 .usage('Usage: list monitors')
         }, function(argv) {
             maxctrl(argv, function(host) {
@@ -284,7 +329,8 @@ exports.builder = function(yargs) {
             })
         })
         .command('sessions', 'List sessions', function(yargs) {
-            return yargs.epilog('List all client sessions.')
+            return yargs.epilog('List all client sessions.' +
+                                fieldDescriptions(list_sessions_fields))
                 .usage('Usage: list sessions')
         }, function(argv) {
             maxctrl(argv, function(host) {
@@ -292,7 +338,8 @@ exports.builder = function(yargs) {
             })
         })
         .command('filters', 'List filters', function(yargs) {
-            return yargs.epilog('List all filters in MaxScale.')
+            return yargs.epilog('List all filters in MaxScale.' +
+                                fieldDescriptions(list_filters_fields))
                 .usage('Usage: list filters')
         }, function(argv) {
             maxctrl(argv, function(host) {
@@ -300,7 +347,8 @@ exports.builder = function(yargs) {
             })
         })
         .command('modules', 'List loaded modules', function(yargs) {
-            return yargs.epilog('List all currently loaded modules.')
+            return yargs.epilog('List all currently loaded modules.' +
+                                fieldDescriptions(list_modules_fields))
                 .usage('Usage: list modules')
         }, function(argv) {
             maxctrl(argv, function(host) {
@@ -308,7 +356,8 @@ exports.builder = function(yargs) {
             })
         })
         .command('threads', 'List threads', function(yargs) {
-            return yargs.epilog('List all worker threads.')
+            return yargs.epilog('List all worker threads.' +
+                                fieldDescriptions(list_threads_fields))
                 .usage('Usage: list threads')
         }, function(argv) {
             maxctrl(argv, function(host) {
@@ -317,7 +366,8 @@ exports.builder = function(yargs) {
         })
         .command('users', 'List created users', function(yargs) {
             return yargs.epilog('List network the users that can be used to connect to the MaxScale REST API' +
-                                ' as well as enabled local accounts.')
+                                ' as well as enabled local accounts.' +
+                                fieldDescriptions(list_users_fields))
                 .usage('Usage: list users')
         }, function(argv) {
             maxctrl(argv, function(host) {
@@ -325,7 +375,8 @@ exports.builder = function(yargs) {
             })
         })
         .command('commands', 'List module commands', function(yargs) {
-            return yargs.epilog('List all available module commands.')
+            return yargs.epilog('List all available module commands.' +
+                                fieldDescriptions(list_commands_fields))
                 .usage('Usage: list commands')
         }, function(argv) {
             maxctrl(argv, function(host) {
diff --git a/maxctrl/lib/show.js b/maxctrl/lib/show.js
index f72e190f7..15a26d2bf 100644
--- a/maxctrl/lib/show.js
+++ b/maxctrl/lib/show.js
@@ -17,93 +17,115 @@ const server_fields = [
     {
         name: 'Server',
         path: 'id',
+        description: 'Server name'
     },
     {
         name: 'Address',
         path: 'attributes.parameters.address',
+        description: 'Address where the server listens'
     },
     {
         name: 'Port',
         path: 'attributes.parameters.port',
+        description: 'The port on which the server listens'
     },
     {
         name: 'State',
         path: 'attributes.state',
+        description: 'Server state'
     },
     {
         name: 'Last Event',
         path: 'attributes.last_event',
+        description: 'The type of the latest event'
     },
     {
         name: 'Triggered At',
         path: 'attributes.triggered_at',
+        description: 'Time when the latest event was triggered at'
     },
     {
         name: 'Services',
         path: 'relationships.services.data[].id',
+        description: 'Services that use this server'
     },
     {
         name: 'Monitors',
         path: 'relationships.monitors.data[].id',
+        description: 'Monitors that monitor this server'
     },
     {
         name: 'Master ID',
         path: 'attributes.master_id',
+        description: 'The server ID of the master'
     },
     {
         name: 'Node ID',
         path: 'attributes.node_id',
+        description: 'The node ID of this server'
     },
     {
         name: 'Slave Server IDs',
         path: 'attributes.slaves',
+        description: 'List of slave server IDs'
     },
     {
         name: 'Statistics',
         path: 'attributes.statistics',
+        description: 'Server statistics'
     },
     {
         name: 'Parameters',
         path: 'attributes.parameters',
-}
+        description: 'Server parameters'
+    }
 ]
 
 const service_fields = [
     {
         name: 'Service',
         path: 'id',
+        description: 'Service name'
     },
     {
         name: 'Router',
         path: 'attributes.router',
+        description: 'Router that the service uses'
     },
     {
         name: 'State',
         path: 'attributes.state',
+        description: 'Service state'
     },
     {
         name: 'Started At',
         path: 'attributes.started',
+        description: 'When the service was started'
     },
     {
         name: 'Current Connections',
         path: 'attributes.connections',
+        description: 'Current connection count'
     },
     {
         name: 'Total Connections',
         path: 'attributes.total_connections',
+        description: 'Total connection count'
     },
     {
         name: 'Servers',
         path: 'relationships.servers.data[].id',
+        description: 'Servers that the service uses'
     },
     {
         name: 'Parameters',
         path: 'attributes.parameters',
+        description: 'Service parameter'
     },
     {
         name: 'Router Diagnostics',
         path: 'attributes.router_diagnostics',
+        description: 'Diagnostics provided by the router module'
     }
 ]
 
@@ -111,87 +133,108 @@ const monitor_fields = [
     {
         name: 'Monitor',
         path: 'id',
+        description: 'Monitor name'
     },
     {
         name: 'State',
         path: 'attributes.state',
+        description: 'Monitor state'
     },
     {
         name: 'Servers',
         path: 'relationships.servers.data[].id',
+        description: 'The servers that this monitor monitors'
     },
     {
         name: 'Parameters',
         path: 'attributes.parameters',
+        description: 'Monitor parameters'
     },
     {
         name: 'Monitor Diagnostics',
-        path: 'attributes.monitor_diagnostics',}
+        path: 'attributes.monitor_diagnostics',
+        description: 'Diagnostics provided by the monitor module'
+    }
 ]
 
 const session_fields = [
     {
         name: 'Id',
         path: 'id',
+        description: 'Session ID'
     },
     {
         name: 'Service',
         path: 'relationships.services.data[].id',
+        description: 'The service where the session connected'
     },
     {
         name: 'State',
         path: 'attributes.state',
+        description: 'Session state'
     },
     {
         name: 'User',
         path: 'attributes.user',
+        description: 'Username'
     },
     {
         name: 'Host',
         path: 'attributes.remote',
+        description: 'Client host address'
     },
     {
         name: 'Connected',
         path: 'attributes.connected',
+        description: 'Time when the session started'
     },
     {
         name: 'Idle',
         path: 'attributes.idle',
+        description: 'How long the session has been idle, in seconds'
     },
     {
         name: 'Connections',
         path: 'attributes.connections[].server',
+        description: 'Ordered list of backend connections'
     },
     {
         name: 'Connection IDs',
         path: 'attributes.connections[].protocol_diagnostics.connection_id',
+        description: 'Thread IDs for the backend connections'
     },
     {
         name: 'Queries',
         path: 'attributes.queries[].statement',
+        description: 'Query history'
     },
     {
         name: 'Log',
         path: 'attributes.log',
-}
+        description: 'Per-session log messages'
+    }
 ]
 
 const filter_fields = [
     {
         name: 'Filter',
         path: 'id',
+        description: 'Filter name'
     },
     {
         name: 'Module',
         path: 'attributes.module',
+        description: 'The module that the filter uses'
     },
     {
         name: 'Services',
         path: 'relationships.services.data[].id',
+        description: 'Services that use the filter'
     },
     {
         name: 'Parameters',
         path: 'attributes.parameters',
+        description: 'Filter parameters'
     }
 ]
 
@@ -199,30 +242,37 @@ const module_fields = [
     {
         name: 'Module',
         path: 'id',
+        description: 'Module name'
     },
     {
         name: 'Type',
         path: 'attributes.module_type',
+        description: 'Module type'
     },
     {
         name: 'Version',
         path: 'attributes.version',
+        description: 'Module version'
     },
     {
         name: 'Maturity',
         path: 'attributes.maturity',
+        description: 'Module maturity'
     },
     {
         name: 'Description',
         path: 'attributes.description',
+        description: 'Short description about the module'
     },
     {
         name: 'Parameters',
         path: 'attributes.parameters',
+        description: 'All the parameters that the module accepts'
     },
     {
         name: 'Commands',
         path: 'attributes.commands',
+        description: 'Commands that the module provides'
     }
 ]
 
@@ -230,82 +280,102 @@ const thread_fields = [
     {
         name: 'Id',
         path: 'id',
+        description: 'Thread ID'
     },
     {
         name: 'Accepts',
         path: 'attributes.stats.accepts',
+        description: 'Number of TCP accepts done by this thread'
     },
     {
         name: 'Reads',
         path: 'attributes.stats.reads',
+        description: 'Number of EPOLLIN events'
     },
     {
         name: 'Writes',
         path: 'attributes.stats.writes',
+        description: 'Number of EPOLLOUT events'
     },
     {
         name: 'Hangups',
         path: 'attributes.stats.hangups',
+        description: 'Number of EPOLLHUP and EPOLLRDUP events'
     },
     {
         name: 'Errors',
         path: 'attributes.stats.errors',
+        description: 'Number of EPOLLERR events'
     },
     {
         name: 'Avg event queue length',
         path: 'attributes.stats.avg_event_queue_length',
+        description: 'Average number of events returned by one epoll_wait call'
     },
     {
         name: 'Max event queue length',
         path: 'attributes.stats.max_event_queue_length',
+        description: 'Maximum number of events returned by one epoll_wait call'
     },
     {
         name: 'Max exec time',
         path: 'attributes.stats.max_exec_time',
+        description: 'The longest time spent processing events returned by a epoll_wait call'
     },
     {
         name: 'Max queue time',
         path: 'attributes.stats.max_queue_time',
+        description: 'The longest time an event had to wait before it was processed'
     },
     {
         name: 'Current FDs',
         path: 'attributes.stats.current_descriptors',
+        description: 'Current number of managed file descriptors'
     },
     {
         name: 'Total FDs',
         path: 'attributes.stats.total_descriptors',
+        description: 'Total number of managed file descriptors'
     },
     {
         name: 'Load (1s)',
         path: 'attributes.stats.load.last_second',
+        description: 'Load percentage over the last second'
     },
     {
         name: 'Load (1m)',
         path: 'attributes.stats.load.last_minute',
+        description: 'Load percentage over the last minute'
     },
     {
         name: 'Load (1h)',
         path: 'attributes.stats.load.last_hour',
+        description: 'Load percentage over the last hour'
     },
     {
         name: 'QC cache size',
         path: 'attributes.stats.query_classifier_cache.size',
+        description: 'Query classifier size'
     },
     {
         name: 'QC cache inserts',
         path: 'attributes.stats.query_classifier_cache.inserts',
+        description: 'Number of times a new query was added into the query classification cache'
     },
     {
         name: 'QC cache hits',
         path: 'attributes.stats.query_classifier_cache.hits',
+        description: 'How many times a query classification was found in the query classification cache'
     },
     {
         name: 'QC cache misses',
         path: 'attributes.stats.query_classifier_cache.misses',
+        description: 'How many times a query classification was not found in the query classification cache'
     },
     {
         name: 'QC cache evictions',
         path: 'attributes.stats.query_classifier_cache.evictions',
+        description: 'How many times a query classification result was evicted from the query classification cache'
     },
 ]
 
@@ -313,26 +383,32 @@ const show_maxscale_fields = [
     {
         name: 'Version',
         path: 'attributes.version',
+        description: 'MaxScale version'
     },
     {
         name: 'Commit',
         path: 'attributes.commit',
+        description: 'MaxScale commit ID'
     },
     {
         name: 'Started At',
         path: 'attributes.started_at',
+        description: 'Time when MaxScale was started'
     },
     {
         name: 'Activated At',
         path: 'attributes.activated_at',
+        description: 'Time when MaxScale left passive mode'
     },
     {
         name: 'Uptime',
         path: 'attributes.uptime',
+        description: 'Time MaxScale has been running'
     },
     {
         name: 'Parameters',
         path: 'attributes.parameters',
+        description: 'Global MaxScale parameters'
     }
 ]
 
@@ -340,14 +416,17 @@ const show_logging_fields = [
     {
         name: 'Current Log File',
         path: 'attributes.log_file',
+        description: 'The current log file MaxScale is logging into'
     },
     {
         name: 'Enabled Log Levels',
         path: 'attributes.log_priorities',
+        description: 'List of log levels enabled in MaxScale'
     },
     {
         name: 'Parameters',
         path: 'attributes.parameters',
+        description: 'Logging parameters'
     }
 ]
 
@@ -355,14 +434,17 @@ const show_commands_fields = [
     {
         name: 'Command',
         path: 'id',
+        description: 'Command name'
     },
     {
         name: 'Parameters',
         path: 'attributes.parameters[].type',
+        description: 'Parameters the command supports'
     },
     {
         name: 'Descriptions',
         path: 'attributes.parameters[].description',
+        description: 'Parameter descriptions'
     }
 ]
 
@@ -375,7 +457,7 @@ exports.builder = function(yargs) {
             return yargs.epilog('Show detailed information about a server. The `Parameters` ' +
                                 'field contains the currently configured parameters for this ' +
                                 'server. See `help alter server` for more details about altering ' +
-                                'server parameters.')
+                                'server parameters.' + fieldDescriptions(server_fields))
                 .usage('Usage: show server <server>')
         }, function(argv) {
             maxctrl(argv, function(host) {
@@ -383,7 +465,8 @@ exports.builder = function(yargs) {
             })
         })
         .command('servers', 'Show all servers', function(yargs) {
-            return yargs.epilog('Show detailed information about all servers.')
+            return yargs.epilog('Show detailed information about all servers.' +
+                                fieldDescriptions(server_fields))
                 .usage('Usage: show servers')
         }, function(argv) {
             maxctrl(argv, function(host) {
@@ -394,7 +477,7 @@ exports.builder = function(yargs) {
             return yargs.epilog('Show detailed information about a service. The `Parameters` ' +
                                 'field contains the currently configured parameters for this ' +
                                 'service. See `help alter service` for more details about altering ' +
-                                'service parameters.')
+                                'service parameters.' + fieldDescriptions(service_fields))
                 .usage('Usage: show service <service>')
         }, function(argv) {
             maxctrl(argv, function(host) {
@@ -402,7 +485,8 @@ exports.builder = function(yargs) {
             })
         })
         .command('services', 'Show all services', function(yargs) {
-            return yargs.epilog('Show detailed information about all services.')
+            return yargs.epilog('Show detailed information about all services.' +
+                                fieldDescriptions(service_fields))
                 .usage('Usage: show services')
         }, function(argv) {
             maxctrl(argv, function(host) {
@@ -413,7 +497,7 @@ exports.builder = function(yargs) {
             return yargs.epilog('Show detailed information about a monitor. The `Parameters` ' +
                                 'field contains the currently configured parameters for this ' +
                                 'monitor. See `help alter monitor` for more details about altering ' +
-                                'monitor parameters.')
+                                'monitor parameters.' + fieldDescriptions(monitor_fields))
                 .usage('Usage: show monitor <monitor>')
         }, function(argv) {
             maxctrl(argv, function(host) {
@@ -421,7 +505,8 @@ exports.builder = function(yargs) {
             })
         })
         .command('monitors', 'Show all monitors', function(yargs) {
-            return yargs.epilog('Show detailed information about all monitors.')
+            return yargs.epilog('Show detailed information about all monitors.' +
+                                fieldDescriptions(monitor_fields))
                 .usage('Usage: show monitors')
         }, function(argv) {
             maxctrl(argv, function(host) {
@@ -435,7 +520,8 @@ exports.builder = function(yargs) {
                                 'ID of a particular session.\n\n' +
                                 'The `Connections` field lists the servers to which ' +
                                 'the session is connected and the `Connection IDs` ' +
-                                'field lists the IDs for those connections.')
+                                'field lists the IDs for those connections.' +
+                                fieldDescriptions(session_fields))
                 .usage('Usage: show session <session>')
         }, function(argv) {
             maxctrl(argv, function(host) {
@@ -444,7 +530,8 @@ exports.builder = function(yargs) {
         })
         .command('sessions', 'Show all sessions', function(yargs) {
             return yargs.epilog('Show detailed information about all sessions. ' +
-                                'See `help show session` for more details.')
+                                'See `help show session` for more details.' +
+                                fieldDescriptions(session_fields))
                 .usage('Usage: show sessions')
         }, function(argv) {
             maxctrl(argv, function(host) {
@@ -452,7 +539,8 @@ exports.builder = function(yargs) {
             })
         })
         .command('filter <filter>', 'Show filter', function(yargs) {
-            return yargs.epilog('The list of services that use this filter is show in the `Services` field.')
+            return yargs.epilog('The list of services that use this filter is show in the `Services` field.' +
+                               fieldDescriptions(filter_fields))
                 .usage('Usage: show filter <filter>')
         }, function(argv) {
             maxctrl(argv, function(host) {
@@ -460,7 +548,8 @@ exports.builder = function(yargs) {
             })
         })
         .command('filters', 'Show all filters', function(yargs) {
-            return yargs.epilog('Show detailed information of all filters.')
+            return yargs.epilog('Show detailed information of all filters.' +
+                                fieldDescriptions(filter_fields))
                 .usage('Usage: show filters')
         }, function(argv) {
             maxctrl(argv, function(host) {
@@ -469,7 +558,8 @@ exports.builder = function(yargs) {
         })
         .command('module <module>', 'Show loaded module', function(yargs) {
             return yargs.epilog('This command shows all available parameters as well as ' +
-                                'detailed version information of a loaded module.')
+                                'detailed version information of a loaded module.' +
+                               fieldDescriptions(module_fields))
                 .usage('Usage: show module <module>')
         }, function(argv) {
             maxctrl(argv, function(host) {
@@ -477,7 +567,8 @@ exports.builder = function(yargs) {
             })
         })
         .command('modules', 'Show all loaded modules', function(yargs) {
-            return yargs.epilog('Displays detailed information about all modules.')
+            return yargs.epilog('Displays detailed information about all modules.' +
+                               fieldDescriptions(module_fields))
                 .usage('Usage: show modules')
         }, function(argv) {
             maxctrl(argv, function(host) {
@@ -486,7 +577,7 @@ exports.builder = function(yargs) {
         })
         .command('maxscale', 'Show MaxScale information', function(yargs) {
             return yargs.epilog('See `help alter maxscale` for more details about altering ' +
-                                'MaxScale parameters.')
+                                'MaxScale parameters.' + fieldDescriptions(show_maxscale_fields))
                 .usage('Usage: show maxscale')
         }, function(argv) {
             maxctrl(argv, function(host) {
@@ -494,7 +585,8 @@ exports.builder = function(yargs) {
             })
         })
         .command('thread <thread>', 'Show thread', function(yargs) {
-            return yargs.epilog('Show detailed information about a worker thread.')
+            return yargs.epilog('Show detailed information about a worker thread.' +
+                               fieldDescriptions(thread_fields))
                 .usage('Usage: show thread <thread>')
         }, function(argv) {
             maxctrl(argv, function(host) {
@@ -502,7 +594,8 @@ exports.builder = function(yargs) {
             })
         })
         .command('threads', 'Show all threads', function(yargs) {
-            return yargs.epilog('Show detailed information about all worker threads.')
+            return yargs.epilog('Show detailed information about all worker threads.' +
+                               fieldDescriptions(thread_fields))
                 .usage('Usage: show threads')
         }, function(argv) {
             maxctrl(argv, function(host) {
@@ -511,7 +604,7 @@ exports.builder = function(yargs) {
         })
         .command('logging', 'Show MaxScale logging information', function(yargs) {
             return yargs.epilog('See `help alter logging` for more details about altering ' +
-                                'logging parameters.')
+                                'logging parameters.' + fieldDescriptions(show_logging_fields))
                 .usage('Usage: show logging')
         }, function(argv) {
             maxctrl(argv, function(host) {
@@ -520,7 +613,7 @@ exports.builder = function(yargs) {
         })
         .command('commands <module>', 'Show module commands of a module', function(yargs) {
             return yargs.epilog('This command shows the parameters the command expects with ' +
-                                'the parameter descriptions.')
+                                'the parameter descriptions.' + fieldDescriptions(show_commands_fields))
                 .usage('Usage: show commands <module>')
         }, function(argv) {
             maxctrl(argv, function(host) {