diff --git a/docs/settings/apm-settings.asciidoc b/docs/settings/apm-settings.asciidoc
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--- a/docs/settings/apm-settings.asciidoc
+++ b/docs/settings/apm-settings.asciidoc
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ Changing these settings may disable features of the APM App.
   | Index name where Observability annotations are stored. Defaults to `observability-annotations`.
 
 | `xpack.apm.searchAggregatedTransactions`
-  | experimental[] Enables Transaction histogram metrics. Defaults to `auto` and the UI will use metric indices over transaction indices for transactions if aggregated transactions are found. When set to `always`, additional configuration in APM Server is required. When set to `never`, aggregated transactions are not used.
+  | experimental[] Enables Transaction histogram metrics. Defaults to `never` and aggregated transactions are not used. When set to `auto`, the UI will use metric indices over transaction indices for transactions if aggregated transactions are found. When set to `always`, additional configuration in APM Server is required.
     See {apm-server-ref-v}/transaction-metrics.html[Configure transaction metrics] for more information.
 
 | `apm_oss.indexPattern` {ess-icon}