diff --git a/docs/reference/cluster/stats.asciidoc b/docs/reference/cluster/stats.asciidoc
index c6e73f2c9d29b..a629539542236 100644
--- a/docs/reference/cluster/stats.asciidoc
+++ b/docs/reference/cluster/stats.asciidoc
@@ -225,11 +225,11 @@ Will return, for example:
 //    the response are ignored. So we're really only asserting things about the
 //    the shape of this response, not the values in it.
 
-This API can be restricted to a subset of the nodes using the `?nodeId`
-parameter, which accepts <<cluster-nodes,node filters>>:
+This API can be restricted to a subset of the nodes using <<cluster-nodes,node
+filters>>:
 
 [source,js]
 --------------------------------------------------
-GET /_cluster/stats?nodeId=node1,node*,master:false
+GET /_cluster/stats/nodes/node1,node*,master:false
 --------------------------------------------------
 // CONSOLE