diff --git a/js/apps/system/aardvark/frontend/js/templates/documentsView.ejs b/js/apps/system/aardvark/frontend/js/templates/documentsView.ejs
index 07c60915d9..32376742b7 100644
--- a/js/apps/system/aardvark/frontend/js/templates/documentsView.ejs
+++ b/js/apps/system/aardvark/frontend/js/templates/documentsView.ejs
@@ -70,6 +70,7 @@
       <button id="confirmDocImport" class="button-success btn-old-padding" style="float:right">
         <img id="uploadIndicator" class="upload-indicator" src="img/ajax-loader.gif"/>Import JSON
       </button>
+      <div title='Example input data:</br></br> I. Line-wise: </br> { "_key": "key1", ... } { "_key": "key2", ... } or </br></br> II. JSON documents embedded into a list: </br> [ </br> { "_key": "key1", ... }, </br> { "_key": "key2", ... }, </br> ... </br> ]' class="upload-info" style="float:left; margin-top:7px; margin-right: 10px;"><i style="font-size: 13pt;" class="fa fa-info-circle"></i></div>
     </div>
   </div>
 
diff --git a/js/apps/system/aardvark/frontend/js/views/documentsView.js b/js/apps/system/aardvark/frontend/js/views/documentsView.js
index 96102f08e7..9294ea285a 100644
--- a/js/apps/system/aardvark/frontend/js/views/documentsView.js
+++ b/js/apps/system/aardvark/frontend/js/views/documentsView.js
@@ -942,6 +942,7 @@
       this.uploadSetup();
 
       $("[data-toggle=tooltip]").tooltip();
+      $('.upload-info').tooltip();
 
       arangoHelper.fixTooltips(".icon_arangodb, .arangoicon", "top");
       this.drawTable();
diff --git a/js/apps/system/aardvark/frontend/scss/_documentsView.scss b/js/apps/system/aardvark/frontend/scss/_documentsView.scss
index 065975de90..e1bc08bf77 100644
--- a/js/apps/system/aardvark/frontend/scss/_documentsView.scss
+++ b/js/apps/system/aardvark/frontend/scss/_documentsView.scss
@@ -122,6 +122,12 @@
   width: 115px;
 }
 
+.queryline {
+  .fa-info-circle:hover {
+    cursor: pointer;
+  }
+}
+
 .ace_error {
   background: none !important;
 }
diff --git a/js/apps/system/aardvark/frontend/scss/generated.css b/js/apps/system/aardvark/frontend/scss/generated.css
index 6cb066181a..de9710445d 100644
--- a/js/apps/system/aardvark/frontend/scss/generated.css
+++ b/js/apps/system/aardvark/frontend/scss/generated.css
@@ -6131,6 +6131,9 @@ table .sorting {
   margin-top: -58px;
   width: 115px; }
 
+.queryline .fa-info-circle:hover {
+  cursor: pointer; }
+
 .ace_error {
   background: none !important; }