diff --git a/_data-prepper/pipelines/configuration/processors/otel-trace-raw.md b/_data-prepper/pipelines/configuration/processors/otel-trace-raw.md
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 # otel_trace
 
-The `otel_trace` processor completes trace-group-related fields in all incoming Data Prepper span records by state caching the root span information for each `tradeId`. 
+The `otel_trace` processor completes trace-group-related fields in all incoming Data Prepper span records by state caching the root span information for each `traceId`. 
 
 ## Parameters
 
@@ -41,4 +41,4 @@ The following table describes common [Abstract processor](https://github.com/ope
 The `otel_trace` processor includes the following custom metrics:
 
 * `traceGroupCacheCount`: The number of trace groups in the trace group cache.
-* `spanSetCount`: The number of span sets in the span set collection.
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+* `spanSetCount`: The number of span sets in the span set collection.