diff --git a/test_unstructured_ingest/dest/astra.sh b/test_unstructured_ingest/dest/astra.sh
index 1f043d36fe..36129c3a9f 100755
--- a/test_unstructured_ingest/dest/astra.sh
+++ b/test_unstructured_ingest/dest/astra.sh
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ PYTHONPATH=. ./unstructured/ingest/main.py \
   --api-endpoint "$ASTRA_DB_ENDPOINT" \
   --collection-name "$COLLECTION_NAME" \
   --embedding-dimension "$EMBEDDING_DIMENSION" \
-  --requested-indexing-policy '{"deny": "metadata"}'
+  --requested-indexing-policy '{"deny": ["metadata"]}'
 
 python "$SCRIPT_DIR"/python/test-ingest-astra-output.py \
   --token "$ASTRA_DB_TOKEN" \
diff --git a/unstructured/ingest/cli/cmds/astra.py b/unstructured/ingest/cli/cmds/astra.py
index 9f79c4cdfa..947ee35a4a 100644
--- a/unstructured/ingest/cli/cmds/astra.py
+++ b/unstructured/ingest/cli/cmds/astra.py
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ def get_cli_options() -> t.List[click.Option]:
                 default=None,
                 type=Dict(),
                 help="The indexing policy to use for the collection."
-                'example: \'{"deny": "metadata"}\' ',
+                'example: \'{"deny": ["metadata"]}\' ',
             ),
         ]
         return options