diff --git a/plugins/inputs/vsphere/README.md b/plugins/inputs/vsphere/README.md
index cbf817b364610..c7d438a9c9285 100644
--- a/plugins/inputs/vsphere/README.md
+++ b/plugins/inputs/vsphere/README.md
@@ -430,7 +430,7 @@ instance. For example:
   datastore_metric_exclude = ["*"]
   cluster_metric_exclude = ["*"]
   datacenter_metric_exclude = ["*"]
-  resourcepool_metric_exclude = ["*"]
+  resource_pool_metric_exclude = ["*"]
   vsan_metric_exclude = ["*"]
 
   collect_concurrency = 5