diff --git a/docs/sources/configuration/_index.md b/docs/sources/configuration/_index.md
index 9dc039972d..6beaa09c02 100644
--- a/docs/sources/configuration/_index.md
+++ b/docs/sources/configuration/_index.md
@@ -313,7 +313,7 @@ The query_frontend_config configures the Loki query-frontend.
 # CLI flag: -querier.compress-http-responses
 [compress_responses: <boolean> | default = false]
 
-# URL of downstream Prometheus.
+# URL of downstream Loki.
 # CLI flag: -frontend.downstream-url
 [downstream_url: <string> | default = ""]
 
diff --git a/docs/sources/configuration/query-frontend.md b/docs/sources/configuration/query-frontend.md
index 2ba62fe454..e9c98a35b9 100644
--- a/docs/sources/configuration/query-frontend.md
+++ b/docs/sources/configuration/query-frontend.md
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ data:
 
     frontend:
       log_queries_longer_than: 5s
-      downstream_url: querier.<namespace>.svc.cluster.local:3100
+      downstream_url: http://querier.<namespace>.svc.cluster.local:3100
       compress_responses: true
 ```