diff --git a/ip/ipmonitor.c b/ip/ipmonitor.c
index 685be52c..99f5fda8 100644
--- a/ip/ipmonitor.c
+++ b/ip/ipmonitor.c
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ static void usage(void)
 	fprintf(stderr,
 		"Usage: ip monitor [ all | LISTofOBJECTS ] [ FILE ] [ label ] [all-nsid] [dev DEVICE]\n"
 		"LISTofOBJECTS := link | address | route | mroute | prefix |\n"
-		"		 neigh | netconf | rule | nsid\n"
+		"		 neigh | netconf | rule | nsid | nexthop\n"
 		"FILE := file FILENAME\n");
 	exit(-1);
 }
diff --git a/man/man8/ip-monitor.8 b/man/man8/ip-monitor.8
index 86f8f988..f886d31b 100644
--- a/man/man8/ip-monitor.8
+++ b/man/man8/ip-monitor.8
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ command is the first in the command line and then the object list follows:
 is the list of object types that we want to monitor.
 It may contain
 .BR link ", " address ", " route ", " mroute ", " prefix ", "
-.BR neigh ", " netconf ", "  rule " and " nsid "."
+.BR neigh ", " netconf ", "  rule ", " nsid " and " nexthop "."
 If no
 .B file
 argument is given,