diff --git a/docs/reference/setup/install/check-running.asciidoc b/docs/reference/setup/install/check-running.asciidoc
index 41a7cf5bfb6..db4783c3dfa 100644
--- a/docs/reference/setup/install/check-running.asciidoc
+++ b/docs/reference/setup/install/check-running.asciidoc
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 ==== Checking that Elasticsearch is running
 
 You can test that your Elasticsearch node is running by sending an HTTP
-request to port `9200` on `127.0.0.1`:
+request to port `9200` on `localhost`:
 
 [source,sh]
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-curl 127.0.0.1:9200
+curl localhost:9200
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 which should give you a response something like this: