diff --git a/docs/monitor/README.md b/docs/monitor/README.md
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@@ -142,9 +142,6 @@
 Fan object attributes: **(Required unless otherwise noted)**
 * [inventory](inventory.md)
 * [method](method.md) - *Optional, default = "timebased"
- * "timebased":
-   * [allowed_out_of_range_time](allowed_out_of_range_time.md)
-   * [functional_delay](functional_delay.md) - Optional, default = 0
 * [deviation](deviation.md)
 * [num_sensors_nonfunc_for_fan_nonfunc](num_sensors_nonfunc_for_fan_nonfunc.md) - Optional, default = 0
 * [monitor_start_delay](monitor_start_delay.md) - Optional, default = 0
diff --git a/docs/monitor/method.md b/docs/monitor/method.md
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 # method
 
 ## Description
-
+The method to use in monitoring a fan's functional state. One method can be
+configured per fan and each supported method requires its own set of attributes
+to be provided.
 
 ## Attribute Value(s)
+Methods:
+* ["timebased"](#timebased) - Default
+* ["count"](#count)
 
+### "timebased"
+Uses timers for determining when a fan's sensor should be marked nonfunctional
+or functional after its been in that state for that continuous amount of time.
+Separate timers are used to transition a fan from functional to
+nonfunctional(`allowed_out_of_range_time`) and nonfunctional to
+functional(`functional_delay`).
+
+* `allowed_out_of_range_time` - Time(in seconds) that each fan sensor is
+allowed to be calculated out of range of a current target before being marked
+nonfunctional.
+* `functional_delay` - Optional, default = 0  
+  * Time(in seconds) that each fan sensor must be calculated within range of a
+  current target before being marked functional.
+
+```
+"method": "timebased",
+"allowed_out_of_range_time": 30,
+"functional_delay": 5
+```
+**Note: Since this method is the default, simply providing
+`allowed_out_of_range_time` and `functional_delay` attributes will result in
+this method being used.**
+* This is equivalent to above:
+  ```
+  "allowed_out_of_range_time": 30,
+  "functional_delay": 5
+  ```
+
+### "count"
+An up/down counter for determining when a fan's sensor should be marked
+nonfunctional based on a `threshold` or functional when the counter = 0. Each
+fan sensor update where its feedback speed is calculated out of range of the
+current target increments the counter by 1. Once the counter reaches the
+`threshold`, the fan is marked nonfunctional. However, at any point the
+sensor's feedback speed is within range, the counter is decremented by 1.
+Therefore the fan's sensor(s) do not have to continuously be in a faulted state
+to be marked nonfunctional and instead is deemed nonfunctional once it
+accumulates the `threshold` number of times deemed out of range. The same is
+true for a nonfunctional fan sensor to become functional, where the counter
+must accumulate enough times deemed within range to decrement the counter to 0.
+
+* `threshold` - Number of total times a fan sensor must be calculated out of
+range before being marked nonfunctional.
+
+```
+"method": "count",
+"sensors": [
+  {
+    "threshold": 30
+  }
+]
+```
 
 ## Example
+<pre><code>
+{
+  "fans": [
+    {
+      "inventory": "/system/chassis/motherboard/fan0",
+      <b><i>"allowed_out_of_range_time": 30,
+      "functional_delay": 5</i></b>,
+      "deviation": 15,
+      "num_sensors_nonfunc_for_fan_nonfunc": 1,
+      "monitor_start_delay": 30,
+      "fan_missing_error_delay": 20,
+      "nonfunc_rotor_error_delay": 0,
+      "sensors": [
+        {
+          "name": "fan0_0",
+          "has_target": true
+        },
+        {
+          "name": "fan0_1",
+          "has_target": false,
+          "factor": 1.45,
+          "offset": -909
+        }
+      ]
+    },
+    {
+      "inventory": "/system/chassis/motherboard/fan1",
+      <b><i>"method": "count"</i></b>,
+      "deviation": 15,
+      "num_sensors_nonfunc_for_fan_nonfunc": 1,
+      "monitor_start_delay": 30,
+      "fan_missing_error_delay": 20,
+      "nonfunc_rotor_error_delay": 0,
+      "sensors": [
+        {
+          "name": "fan0_0",
+          "has_target": true,
+          <b><i>"threshold": 30</i></b>
+        },
+        {
+          "name": "fan0_1",
+          "has_target": false,
+          "factor": 1.45,
+          "offset": -909,
+          <b><i>"threshold": 30</i></b>
+        }
+      ]
+    }
+  ]
+}
+</code></pre>