diff --git a/config/newrelic.ini b/config/newrelic.ini
index 6ed91a16e..0d6018868 100644
--- a/config/newrelic.ini
+++ b/config/newrelic.ini
@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ error_collector.enabled = true
 # To stop specific errors from reporting to the UI, set this to
 # a space separated list of the Python exception type names to
 # ignore. The exception name should be of the form 'module:class'.
-error_collector.ignore_errors =
+error_collector.ignore_classes =
 
 # Browser monitoring is the Real User Monitoring feature of the UI.
 # For those Python web frameworks that are supported, this