diff --git a/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-docs/src/docs/asciidoc/features/spring-application.adoc b/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-docs/src/docs/asciidoc/features/spring-application.adoc
index 72c27eb6591..08f0c77489f 100644
--- a/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-docs/src/docs/asciidoc/features/spring-application.adoc
+++ b/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-docs/src/docs/asciidoc/features/spring-application.adoc
@@ -418,4 +418,4 @@ Once configured, you can record data by running the application with the Flight
 Spring Boot ships with the `BufferingApplicationStartup` variant; this implementation is meant for buffering the startup steps and draining them into an external metrics system.
 Applications can ask for the bean of type `BufferingApplicationStartup` in any component.
 
-Spring Boot can also be configured to expose a {spring-boot-actuator-restapi-docs}/#startup[`startup` endpoint] that provide this information as a JSON document.
+Spring Boot can also be configured to expose a {spring-boot-actuator-restapi-docs}/#startup[`startup` endpoint] that provides this information as a JSON document.