diff --git a/metricbeat/docs/modules/kubernetes.asciidoc b/metricbeat/docs/modules/kubernetes.asciidoc
index 4a67e1b29beb..55d4e22dbf90 100644
--- a/metricbeat/docs/modules/kubernetes.asciidoc
+++ b/metricbeat/docs/modules/kubernetes.asciidoc
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ This file is generated! See scripts/docs_collector.py
 This module fetches metrics from Kubernetes https://kubernetes.io/docs/admin/kubelet/[kubelet]
 agent and https://github.com/kubernetes/kube-state-metrics[kube-state-metrics] service.
 
-All metricsets with the `state_` prefix require `hosts` field pointing to kube-stat-metrics
+All metricsets with the `state_` prefix require `hosts` field pointing to kube-state-metrics
 service within the cluster, while the rest should be pointed to kubelet service. Check the
 example configuration on how to do it.
 
diff --git a/metricbeat/module/kubernetes/_meta/docs.asciidoc b/metricbeat/module/kubernetes/_meta/docs.asciidoc
index 59fe65436703..6717bf0bd655 100644
--- a/metricbeat/module/kubernetes/_meta/docs.asciidoc
+++ b/metricbeat/module/kubernetes/_meta/docs.asciidoc
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 This module fetches metrics from Kubernetes https://kubernetes.io/docs/admin/kubelet/[kubelet]
 agent and https://github.com/kubernetes/kube-state-metrics[kube-state-metrics] service.
 
-All metricsets with the `state_` prefix require `hosts` field pointing to kube-stat-metrics
+All metricsets with the `state_` prefix require `hosts` field pointing to kube-state-metrics
 service within the cluster, while the rest should be pointed to kubelet service. Check the
 example configuration on how to do it.