diff --git a/salt/sdb/memcached.py b/salt/sdb/memcached.py
index 445280b9e18f..48058771a95d 100644
--- a/salt/sdb/memcached.py
+++ b/salt/sdb/memcached.py
@@ -18,8 +18,8 @@
 
     mymemcache:
       driver: memcached
-      host: localhost
-      port: 11211
+      memcached.host: localhost
+      memcached.port: 11211
 
 The ``driver`` refers to the memcached module, ``host`` and ``port`` the
 memcached server to connect to (defaults to ``localhost`` and ``11211``,