diff --git a/_monitoring-plugins/alerting/api.md b/_monitoring-plugins/alerting/api.md
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--- a/_monitoring-plugins/alerting/api.md
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@@ -518,7 +518,7 @@ The following table shows the syntax to use for each trigger option:
 
 Trigger options | Definition | Syntax
 :--- | :--- : :---
-Tag | Creates alerts for documents that match a muliple query with this tag applied. If you group multiple queries by a single tag, then you can set it to trigger an alert if the results are returned by this tag name.| `query[tag=<tag-name>]`
+Tag | Creates alerts for documents that match a multiple query with this tag applied. If you group multiple queries by a single tag, then you can set it to trigger an alert if the results are returned by this tag name.| `query[tag=<tag-name>]`
 Query by name | Creates alerts for documents matched or returned by the named query.  | `query[name=<query-name>]`
 Query by ID | Creates alerts for documents that were returned by the identified query. | `query[id=<query-id>]`