diff --git a/public/app/plugins/datasource/cloud-monitoring/components/Preprocessor.tsx b/public/app/plugins/datasource/cloud-monitoring/components/Preprocessor.tsx
index 3b24d172ef7..c779d9b1061 100644
--- a/public/app/plugins/datasource/cloud-monitoring/components/Preprocessor.tsx
+++ b/public/app/plugins/datasource/cloud-monitoring/components/Preprocessor.tsx
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ export const Preprocessor: FunctionComponent<Props> = ({ query, metricDescriptor
   return (
     <EditorField
       label="Pre-processing"
-      tooltip="Preprocessing options are displayed when the selected metric has a metric kind of delta or cumulative. The specific options available are determined by the metic's value type. If you select 'Rate', data points are aligned and converted to a rate per time series. If you select 'Delta', data points are aligned by their delta (difference) per time series"
+      tooltip="Preprocessing options are displayed when the selected metric has a metric kind of delta or cumulative. The specific options available are determined by the metric's value type. If you select 'Rate', data points are aligned and converted to a rate per time series. If you select 'Delta', data points are aligned by their delta (difference) per time series"
     >
       <RadioButtonGroup
         onChange={(value: PreprocessorType) => {