diff --git a/suricata.yaml.in b/suricata.yaml.in
index 0ea4cdec7d..e521ca5b79 100644
--- a/suricata.yaml.in
+++ b/suricata.yaml.in
@@ -85,8 +85,8 @@ outputs:
       enabled: @e_enable_evelog@
       filetype: regular #regular|syslog|unix_dgram|unix_stream|redis
       filename: eve.json
-      # Enable for multi-threaded eve.json output; output files are suffixed
-      # with an identifier, e.g., eve.json.9.
+      # Enable for multi-threaded eve.json output; output files are amended with
+      # with an identifier, e.g., eve.9.json
       #threaded: false
       #prefix: "@cee: " # prefix to prepend to each log entry
       # the following are valid when type: syslog above