diff --git a/.pre-commit-config.yaml b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
index 531c1a5..eb9c178 100644
--- a/.pre-commit-config.yaml
+++ b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ repos:
           # https://github.com/pre-commit/mirrors-isort/issues/9#issuecomment-624404082
           - --filter-files
   - repo: https://github.com/python/black.git
-    rev: 20.8b1
+    rev: 21.4b2
     hooks:
       - id: black
         language_version: python3
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 80dba24..6ce2196 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -77,3 +77,43 @@ just use it.
 
 To avoid using a particular query on a particular backend we can make use of
 ``skip: ['er', 'artcl']``.
+
+
+## Parameters in a query
+
+| Key           | Required | Type                     | Sova/ER      | Description |
+| ------------- |:--------:| ------------------------:|-------------:|------------:|
+| id            | Required | string, unique           | Sova         | This id will appear in sova.log when this bug is encountered. |
+| pattern       | Optional | string / list of strings | ER (,Sova)   | This used as it is by Elastic recheck to form logstash queries like  ``` message:foo ``` or ``` message:foo AND message:bar ``` If not present Elastic Recheck skips this entry |
+| regex         | Optional | string / list of strings | Sova         | Sova searches for this regex in the log files. If not present the pattern string is converted to regex (escaping special characters) and used by sova. |
+| tags          | Optional | string / list of strings | ER           | Elastic recheck uses this to form logstash queries like ``` AND (tags:"console.html" OR tags:"job-output.txt")``` |
+| url           | Optional | string                   | ER           | Launchpad bug URL. If present the bug number and details are displayed on ER dashboard. If not the graph is titled Unknow/private bug |
+| suppress-graph| Optional | bool                     | ER           | Decides whether or not to display a graph for this bug in Elastic recheck dashboard  |
+
+## Adding a new item in queries.yml
+
+To add a new query (optional: from a bug)
+
+- Add a query item in [src/data/queries.yml](https://opendev.org/openstack/tripleo-ci-health-queries/src/branch/master/src/data/queries.yml)
+    - id : unique ID
+    - pattern: The error message(s) to look for.
+    - regex: If it is a complicated error message you can add a regex for sova to use.
+    - tags: tag(s) for logstash query
+    - url: Launchpad Bug URL
+    - suppress-graph: To display/suppress graph for the bug in ER
+
+To move an existing sova regex from sova-patterns.json to queries.yml
+
+- Choose an item from ``` regexes ``` in output/sova-patterns.json. This is the file that sova currently uses.
+  (Do not look at patterns for now)
+- If the regex feels still relevant, vote for it here https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16rqgaSSoQrYNjsI4q0YInJxrOOJL3xyP3t3D6ZpluFY/edit#gid=846893892
+- Add a query entry in src/data/queries.yml
+    - id: `name` of the regexes item you chose.
+    - pattern: If you want this error to be shown in ER dashboard add a string here corresponding to the regex
+    - regex: `regex` of the regexes item you chose.
+
+- Add a sample string matching the pattern (or regex if you have a special regex) in samples/errors-testing.err.
+As the part of check job a task calls sova to check this file and makes sure there is a match for all the regexes
+  in queries.yml.
+- Run tox. If it passes it should create files in output/elastic-recheck and update sova-pattern-generated.
+- Commit all these files.
diff --git a/src/data/queries-example.yml b/src/data/queries-example.yml
index bdf01a4..1479573 100644
--- a/src/data/queries-example.yml
+++ b/src/data/queries-example.yml
@@ -1,11 +1,14 @@
 # yaml-language-server: $schema=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rdo-infra/queries/main/output/queries-schema.json
 queries:
   - id: pip-no-matching-distribution  # sort key
-    name: "PIP failed to find package"  # optional (aka 'reason'), id is used instead
-    pattern: "ERROR: No matching distribution found for"  # required, can be list!
+
     # optionals:
+    pattern: "ERROR: No matching distribution found for"  # required, can be list! This string is used by
+    # Elastic Recheck to form logstash query message:"<pattern>"
+    # Sova in collect-logs
+    name: "PIP failed to find package"  # optional (aka 'reason'), id is used instead
     files: []  # list of glob patterns, narrows down searching
-    regex: false  # optional, default is false
+    regex: string  # optional, default is false
     url: ...  # str or list[str], issue links to lp, bz,...
     category: ...  # see Categories
     tags: []  # see Tags