diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index b201d9acb72..a3b3d4a39fc 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -257,6 +257,9 @@ Release 2.8.0 - UNRELEASED
     HADOOP-11581. Multithreaded correctness Warnings
     #org.apache.hadoop.fs.shell.Ls (Brahma Reddy Battula via aw)
 
+    HADOOP-11963. Metrics documentation for FSNamesystem misspells
+    PendingDataNodeMessageCount. (Anu Engineer via cnauroth)
+
 Release 2.7.1 - UNRELEASED
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/site/markdown/Metrics.md b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/site/markdown/Metrics.md
index 01a8d5b900b..14631f59736 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/site/markdown/Metrics.md
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/site/markdown/Metrics.md
@@ -224,7 +224,7 @@ Each metrics record contains tags such as HAState and Hostname as additional inf
 | `PendingDeletionBlocks` | Current number of blocks pending deletion |
 | `ExcessBlocks` | Current number of excess blocks |
 | `PostponedMisreplicatedBlocks` | (HA-only) Current number of blocks postponed to replicate |
-| `PendingDataNodeMessageCourt` | (HA-only) Current number of pending block-related messages for later processing in the standby NameNode |
+| `PendingDataNodeMessageCount` | (HA-only) Current number of pending block-related messages for later processing in the standby NameNode |
 | `MillisSinceLastLoadedEdits` | (HA-only) Time in milliseconds since the last time standby NameNode load edit log. In active NameNode, set to 0 |
 | `BlockCapacity` | Current number of block capacity |
 | `StaleDataNodes` | Current number of DataNodes marked stale due to delayed heartbeat |