diff --git a/doc/monitoring/api_reference.rst b/doc/monitoring/api_reference.rst
index 4eb1b76e..40cb6bd4 100644
--- a/doc/monitoring/api_reference.rst
+++ b/doc/monitoring/api_reference.rst
@@ -315,7 +315,7 @@ it uses quantiles (quantile, defined by a number between 0 and 1) for this purpo
 there's no need to define fixed boundaries like in histograms. Here ranges depend
 on the measured values and the number of measurements.
 
-Let's take a series of measurements from the previous example and sort them in ascending order:
+Let's sort the example series of measurements in ascending order:
 1, 4, 6, 7, 7, 8, 8, 8.
 
 Thus: