diff --git a/winlogbeat/docs/fields.asciidoc b/winlogbeat/docs/fields.asciidoc
index 74f7107b326..a8a370b15c0 100644
--- a/winlogbeat/docs/fields.asciidoc
+++ b/winlogbeat/docs/fields.asciidoc
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ type: dict
 
 required: False
 
-The event-specific data. This field is mutually exclusive with `user_data`. If you are capturing event data on versions prior to Windows Vista, the parameters in `event_data` are named `param1`, `param2`, and so on, because event log messages are unnamed in earlier versions of Windows. 
+The event-specific data. This field is mutually exclusive with `user_data`. If you are capturing event data on versions prior to Windows Vista, the parameters in `event_data` are named `param1`, `param2`, and so on, because event log parameters are unnamed in earlier versions of Windows. 
 
 
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diff --git a/winlogbeat/etc/fields.yml b/winlogbeat/etc/fields.yml
index d3359f25aae..fa10dcfacf8 100644
--- a/winlogbeat/etc/fields.yml
+++ b/winlogbeat/etc/fields.yml
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@
         The event-specific data. This field is mutually exclusive with
         `user_data`. If you are capturing event data on versions prior
         to Windows Vista, the parameters in `event_data` are named `param1`,
-        `param2`, and so on, because event log messages are unnamed in
+        `param2`, and so on, because event log parameters are unnamed in
         earlier versions of Windows. 
 
     - name: event_id