diff --git a/docs/topics/logging.txt b/docs/topics/logging.txt
index cb0a1366fb..aa2afba760 100644
--- a/docs/topics/logging.txt
+++ b/docs/topics/logging.txt
@@ -321,7 +321,7 @@ This logging configuration does the following things:
     higher) message to ``/dev/null``.
 
   * ``console``, a StreamHandler, which will print any ``DEBUG``
-    (or higher) message to stdout. This handler uses the `simple` output
+    (or higher) message to stderr. This handler uses the `simple` output
     format.
 
   * ``mail_admins``, an AdminEmailHandler, which will email any