diff --git a/javaagent-tooling/src/main/java/io/opentelemetry/javaagent/tooling/LoggingConfigurer.java b/javaagent-tooling/src/main/java/io/opentelemetry/javaagent/tooling/LoggingConfigurer.java
index cba5469ac1..eea728212a 100644
--- a/javaagent-tooling/src/main/java/io/opentelemetry/javaagent/tooling/LoggingConfigurer.java
+++ b/javaagent-tooling/src/main/java/io/opentelemetry/javaagent/tooling/LoggingConfigurer.java
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ class LoggingConfigurer {
   private static final String SIMPLE_LOGGER_DATE_TIME_FORMAT_PROPERTY =
       "io.opentelemetry.javaagent.slf4j.simpleLogger.dateTimeFormat";
   private static final String SIMPLE_LOGGER_DATE_TIME_FORMAT_DEFAULT =
-      "'[opentelemetry.auto.trace 'yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss:SSS Z']'";
+      "'[otel.javaagent 'yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss:SSS Z']'";
   private static final String SIMPLE_LOGGER_DEFAULT_LOG_LEVEL_PROPERTY =
       "io.opentelemetry.javaagent.slf4j.simpleLogger.defaultLogLevel";
   private static final String SIMPLE_LOGGER_PREFIX =
diff --git a/javaagent/src/test/groovy/io/opentelemetry/javaagent/AgentLoadedIntoBootstrapTest.groovy b/javaagent/src/test/groovy/io/opentelemetry/javaagent/AgentLoadedIntoBootstrapTest.groovy
index d6bc6277dc..604d1196a0 100644
--- a/javaagent/src/test/groovy/io/opentelemetry/javaagent/AgentLoadedIntoBootstrapTest.groovy
+++ b/javaagent/src/test/groovy/io/opentelemetry/javaagent/AgentLoadedIntoBootstrapTest.groovy
@@ -20,8 +20,8 @@ class AgentLoadedIntoBootstrapTest extends Specification {
       , true) == 0
   }
 
-  // this tests the case where someone adds the contents of opentelemetry-auto.jar by mistake to
-  // their application's "uber.jar"
+  // this tests the case where someone adds the contents of opentelemetry-javaagent.jar by mistake
+  // to their application's "uber.jar"
   //
   // the reason this can cause issues is because we locate the agent jar based on the CodeSource of
   // the AgentBootstrap class, and then we add that jar file to the bootstrap class path