diff --git a/docs/configuration/recording_rules.md b/docs/configuration/recording_rules.md
index 4416988d47..4e4fad6d02 100644
--- a/docs/configuration/recording_rules.md
+++ b/docs/configuration/recording_rules.md
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ labels:
 The syntax for alerting rules is:
 
 ```
-# The name of the alert. Must be a valid metric name.
+# The name of the alert. Must be a valid label value.
 alert: <string>
 
 # The PromQL expression to evaluate. Every evaluation cycle this is