diff --git a/docs/Public_API.rst b/docs/Public_API.rst
index feaeda288..17d54f634 100644
--- a/docs/Public_API.rst
+++ b/docs/Public_API.rst
@@ -1109,7 +1109,7 @@ Status
 Route
 '''''
 
-    PUT /v1/apps/:guid/metrics
+    POST /v1/apps/:guid/metrics
 
 Body
 ''''
diff --git a/docs/Readme.md b/docs/Readme.md
index 51390764c..d884f481d 100644
--- a/docs/Readme.md
+++ b/docs/Readme.md
@@ -257,7 +257,7 @@ With the user-provided-service aproach, you can consume the credential from VCAP
 You need to emit  your own metric for scaling to the "URL" specified in credential JSON file with below API endpoint.
 
 ```
-PUT /v1/apps/:guid/metrics
+POST /v1/apps/:guid/metrics
 ```
 
 A JSON payload is required with above API to submit metric name, value and the correspondng instance index.