diff --git a/cmd/ingester/app/options.go b/cmd/ingester/app/options.go
index 20ab29a32da..d11a5bb8941 100644
--- a/cmd/ingester/app/options.go
+++ b/cmd/ingester/app/options.go
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ const (
 	encodingProto = "protobuf"
 
 	defaultBroker      = "127.0.0.1:9092"
-	defaultTopic       = "jaeger-ingester-spans"
+	defaultTopic       = "jaeger-spans"
 	defaultGroupID     = "jaeger-ingester"
 	defaultParallelism = 1000
 	defaultEncoding    = encodingProto