diff --git a/source/reference/server-status.txt b/source/reference/server-status.txt
index 27f8673e090..cc9a8a1244b 100644
--- a/source/reference/server-status.txt
+++ b/source/reference/server-status.txt
@@ -1278,7 +1278,7 @@ metrics
    members of a replica set to acknowledge the write operation
    (i.e. greater than ``1``.)
 
-.. data:: serverStatus.metrics.getLastError.wtime.totalMillis`
+.. data:: serverStatus.metrics.getLastError.wtime.totalMillis
 
    :data:`~serverStatus.metrics.getLastError.wtime.totalMillis` reports
    the total amount of time in milliseconds that the :program:`mongod`