diff --git a/vertical-pod-autoscaler/pkg/updater/main.go b/vertical-pod-autoscaler/pkg/updater/main.go
index 75089ed16a1e..7f0e8adb3a4d 100644
--- a/vertical-pod-autoscaler/pkg/updater/main.go
+++ b/vertical-pod-autoscaler/pkg/updater/main.go
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ var (
 		`Number of pods that can be evicted per seconds. A rate limit set to 0 or -1 will disable
 		the rate limiter.`)
 
-	evictionRateBurst = flag.Int("eviction-rate-limit-burst", 1, `Burst of pods that can be evicted.`)
+	evictionRateBurst = flag.Int("eviction-rate-burst", 1, `Burst of pods that can be evicted.`)
 
 	address = flag.String("address", ":8943", "The address to expose Prometheus metrics.")
 )