diff --git a/content/en/docs/tasks/run-application/horizontal-pod-autoscale-walkthrough.md b/content/en/docs/tasks/run-application/horizontal-pod-autoscale-walkthrough.md
index 6a9fe4de32..800abfea69 100644
--- a/content/en/docs/tasks/run-application/horizontal-pod-autoscale-walkthrough.md
+++ b/content/en/docs/tasks/run-application/horizontal-pod-autoscale-walkthrough.md
@@ -369,8 +369,8 @@ label, you can specify the following metric block to scale only on GET requests:
 type: Object
 object:
   metric:
-    name: `http_requests`
-    selector: `verb=GET`
+    name: http_requests
+    selector: {matchLabels: {verb: GET}}
 ```
 
 This selector uses the same syntax as the full Kubernetes label selectors. The monitoring pipeline