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README.md

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 * [tribe](docs/TRIBE.md)
 
 ### Examples
-There are interesting examples of using snap in every plugin repository. For the full list of plugins, review the [plugin catalog](https://github.com/intelsdi-x/snap/blob/master/docs/PLUGIN_CATALOG.md):
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-* [configs](examples/configs/) is a basic example of the configuration file that powers your plugins
-* [tasks](examples/tasks/) has JSON-encoded execution requests for snap plugins
+There are interesting examples of using snap in every plugin repository. For the full list of plugins, review the [plugin catalog](docs/PLUGIN_CATALOG.md). There is an [Examples](examples/README.md) package that demonstrates snap configurations and usages.
 
 ### Roadmap
 We have a few known features we want to take on from here while we remain open for feedback after public release. They are:

examples/README.md

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+# Examples
+Example package contains a collection of snap examples and [videos](./videos.md) that demonstrate the snap libraries and usages.
+
+* [configs](./configs) is an example of the global configuration file that powers your plugins
+* [influxdb-grafana](./influxdb-grafana) has an example of [snap Influxdb publisher plugin](https://github.com/intelsdi-x/snap-plugin-publisher-influxdb). The example demonstrates
+Intel [PCM](https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-performance-counter-monitor) (Performance Counter Monitor) and [PSUTIL](https://github.com/intelsdi-x/snap-plugin-collector-psutil) (Processes and System Utilization) plugins to publish data into Influxdb and using Grafana to view the results. 
+* [riemann](./riemann) has an example of [snap Riemann publisher plugin](https://github.com/intelsdi-x/snap-plugin-publisher-riemann) 
+* [tasks](./tasks) has JSON and YAML formatted execution requests for snap tasks