diff --git a/documentation/examples/prometheus.conf b/documentation/examples/prometheus.conf
index f862519198..3bbaad72c7 100644
--- a/documentation/examples/prometheus.conf
+++ b/documentation/examples/prometheus.conf
@@ -25,6 +25,6 @@ job: {
   # Let's define a group of targets to scrape for this job. In this case, only one.
   target_group: {
     # These endpoints are scraped via HTTP.
-    target: "http://localhost:9090/metrics.json"
+    target: "http://localhost:9090/metrics"
   }
 }