diff --git a/etc/telegraf.conf b/etc/telegraf.conf
index 5de0973f7..690d94605 100644
--- a/etc/telegraf.conf
+++ b/etc/telegraf.conf
@@ -3900,8 +3900,6 @@
 #
 #   ## Metric Statistic Namespaces (required)
 #   namespaces = ["AWS/ELB"]
-#   ## Single metric statistic namespace appended to namespaces on startup
-#   # namespace = "AWS/ELB"
 #
 #   ## Maximum requests per second. Note that the global default AWS rate limit
 #   ## is 50 reqs/sec, so if you define multiple namespaces, these should add up
diff --git a/etc/telegraf_windows.conf b/etc/telegraf_windows.conf
index ca8488d10..49eb32107 100644
--- a/etc/telegraf_windows.conf
+++ b/etc/telegraf_windows.conf
@@ -3887,8 +3887,6 @@
 #
 #   ## Metric Statistic Namespaces (required)
 #   namespaces = ["AWS/ELB"]
-#   ## Single metric statistic namespace appended to namespaces on startup
-#   # namespace = "AWS/ELB"
 #
 #   ## Maximum requests per second. Note that the global default AWS rate limit
 #   ## is 50 reqs/sec, so if you define multiple namespaces, these should add up