diff --git a/docs/trace_tuning.md b/docs/trace_tuning.md
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@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ Our recommendation is that set the workers based on the CPU utilization, this va
 
 ### Heap
 
-You can configure the heap of Data Prepper by setting the `JVM_OPTS` environmental variable. 
+You can configure the heap of Data Prepper by setting the `JAVA_OPTS` environmental variable. 
 
 Our recommendation is that set the heap value should be minimum `4` * `batch_size` * `otel_send_batch_size` * `maximum size of indvidual span`.
 
@@ -58,4 +58,4 @@ We ran tests in a `r5.xlarge` with the below configuration,
  * `Heap` : 10GB
  
 The above setup was able to handle a throughput of `2100` spans/second at `20` percent CPU utilization.
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