diff --git a/docs/metrics/customizing-the-sdk/README.md b/docs/metrics/customizing-the-sdk/README.md
index 334e5a7ea52..4ce2fc253e9 100644
--- a/docs/metrics/customizing-the-sdk/README.md
+++ b/docs/metrics/customizing-the-sdk/README.md
@@ -531,11 +531,11 @@ Histograms with buckets, and it stores at most one exemplar per histogram
 bucket. The exemplar stored is the last measurement recorded - i.e. any new
 measurement overwrites the previous one in that bucket.
 
-`SimpleExemplarReservoir` is the default reservoir used for all metrics except
+* `SimpleExemplarReservoir` is the default reservoir used for all metrics except
 Histograms with buckets. It has a fixed reservoir pool, and implements the
 equivalent of [naive
 reservoir](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reservoir_sampling). The reservoir pool
-size (currently defaulting to 10) determines the maximum number of exemplars
+size (currently defaulting to 1) determines the maximum number of exemplars
 stored.
 
 > **Note**