diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/metrics2/package-info.java b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/metrics2/package-info.java
index 877c91274f5..ff7cd2510a0 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/metrics2/package-info.java
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/metrics2/package-info.java
@@ -327,7 +327,7 @@
         <td><pre>
   myprefix.sink.*.class=org.apache.hadoop.metrics2.sink.FileSink
   myprefix.sink.file0.context=context0
-  myprefix.sink.file0.filename=context1.out
+  myprefix.sink.file0.filename=context0.out
   myprefix.sink.file1.context=context1
   myprefix.sink.file1.filename=context1.out
   ...