diff --git a/opentelemetry-otlp/examples/basic-otlp-http/src/main.rs b/opentelemetry-otlp/examples/basic-otlp-http/src/main.rs
index 610268294e..c9c874b0f7 100644
--- a/opentelemetry-otlp/examples/basic-otlp-http/src/main.rs
+++ b/opentelemetry-otlp/examples/basic-otlp-http/src/main.rs
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ fn init_logs() -> Result<sdklogs::LoggerProvider, opentelemetry::logs::LogError>
         .with_resource(RESOURCE.clone())
         .with_exporter(
             http_exporter()
-                .with_protocol(Protocol::HttpBinary) //can be changed to `Protocol::HttpJson` to export in JSON format
+                .with_protocol(Protocol::HttpJson) //can be changed to `Protocol::HttpBinary`
                 .with_endpoint("http://localhost:4318/v1/logs"),
         )
         .install_batch(opentelemetry_sdk::runtime::Tokio)