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@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ these metrics being scraped.
 
 ## Networking metrics
 
-Low level networking metrics like `container_network_receive_bytes_total` are also
+Low-level networking metrics like `container_network_receive_bytes_total` are also
 available from the Kubernetes metrics components.
 HTTP & GRPC traffic metrics with higher level labels are [available from Istio](https://istio.io/latest/docs/reference/config/metrics/).
 One of the main metrics would be `istio_requests_total`, which is a counter incremented for every request handled by an Istio proxy.