diff --git a/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-actuator-autoconfigure/src/docs/asciidoc/endpoints/startup.adoc b/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-actuator-autoconfigure/src/docs/asciidoc/endpoints/startup.adoc
index 3c210183410..76ac18e2365 100644
--- a/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-actuator-autoconfigure/src/docs/asciidoc/endpoints/startup.adoc
+++ b/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-actuator-autoconfigure/src/docs/asciidoc/endpoints/startup.adoc
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ The `startup` endpoint provides information about the application's startup sequ
 [[startup-retrieving]]
 == Retrieving the Application Startup steps
 
-To retrieve the steps recorded so far during the application startup phase , make a `GET` request to `/actuator/startup`, as shown in the following curl-based example:
+To retrieve the steps recorded so far during the application startup phase , make a `POST` request to `/actuator/startup`, as shown in the following curl-based example:
 
 include::{snippets}/startup/curl-request.adoc[]