diff --git a/ceilometer/pipeline.py b/ceilometer/pipeline.py
index 7a47c42a..d3a6c306 100644
--- a/ceilometer/pipeline.py
+++ b/ceilometer/pipeline.py
@@ -689,8 +689,7 @@ class PipelineManager(object):
         "meter_name" will be excluded; 'meter_name' means 'meter_name'
         will be included.
 
-        The 'meter_name" is Sample name field. For meter names with
-        variable like "instance:m1.tiny", it's "instance:*".
+        The 'meter_name" is Sample name field.
 
         Valid meters definition is all "included meter names", all
         "excluded meter names", wildcard and "excluded meter names", or
diff --git a/ceilometer/tests/functional/api/v2/test_compute_duration_by_resource_scenarios.py b/ceilometer/tests/functional/api/v2/test_compute_duration_by_resource_scenarios.py
index 19254f2b..19950830 100644
--- a/ceilometer/tests/functional/api/v2/test_compute_duration_by_resource_scenarios.py
+++ b/ceilometer/tests/functional/api/v2/test_compute_duration_by_resource_scenarios.py
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ class TestComputeDurationByResource(v2.FunctionalTest,
                                  side_effect=get_interval)
 
     def _invoke_api(self):
-        return self.get_json('/meters/instance:m1.tiny/statistics',
+        return self.get_json('/meters/instance/statistics',
                              q=[{'field': 'timestamp',
                                  'op': 'ge',
                                  'value': self.start.isoformat()},
@@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ class TestComputeDurationByResource(v2.FunctionalTest,
         ]
         with mock.patch.object(type(self.conn), 'get_meter_statistics',
                                return_value=statistics):
-            data = self.get_json('/meters/instance:m1.tiny/statistics',
+            data = self.get_json('/meters/instance/statistics',
                                  q=[{'field': 'timestamp',
                                      'op': 'ge',
                                      'value': self.late1.isoformat()},
@@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ class TestComputeDurationByResource(v2.FunctionalTest,
 
         with mock.patch.object(type(self.conn), 'get_meter_statistics',
                                return_value=statistics):
-            data = self.get_json('/meters/instance:m1.tiny/statistics',
+            data = self.get_json('/meters/instance/statistics',
                                  q=[{'field': 'timestamp',
                                      'op': 'le',
                                      'value': self.early2.isoformat()},
diff --git a/doc/source/configuration.rst b/doc/source/configuration.rst
index 0f32787e..2a5abbf5 100644
--- a/doc/source/configuration.rst
+++ b/doc/source/configuration.rst
@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ with which a source should operate:
   * To define the list of included meters, use the 'meter_name' syntax
   * To define the list of excluded meters, use the '!meter_name' syntax
   * For meters, which identify a complex Sample field, use the wildcard
-    symbol to select all, e.g. for "instance:m1.tiny", use "instance:\*"
+    symbol to select all, e.g. for "disk.read.bytes", use "disk.\*"
 
 The above definition methods can be used in the following combinations:
 
diff --git a/doc/source/webapi/v2.rst b/doc/source/webapi/v2.rst
index 81a52aca..c8f6e09a 100644
--- a/doc/source/webapi/v2.rst
+++ b/doc/source/webapi/v2.rst
@@ -346,20 +346,6 @@ project::
          "op": "eq",
          "value": "8d6057bc-5b90-4296-afe0-84acaa2ef909"}]
 
-Get the list of samples about instances with *m1.tiny* flavor running for June
-2013 for a particular project::
-
-    GET /v2/meters/instance:m1.tiny
-    q: [{"field": "timestamp",
-         "op": "ge",
-         "value": "2013-06-01T00:00:00"},
-        {"field": "timestamp",
-         "op": "lt",
-         "value": "2013-07-01T00:00:00"},
-        {"field": "project_id",
-         "op": "eq",
-         "value": "8d6057bc-5b90-4296-afe0-84acaa2ef909"}]
-
 Now you may want to have statistics on the meters you are targeting.
 Consider the following example where you are getting the list of samples
 about CPU utilization of a given instance (identified by its *resource_id*)
diff --git a/tools/make_test_data.sh b/tools/make_test_data.sh
index 0e6304b5..3576c6f8 100755
--- a/tools/make_test_data.sh
+++ b/tools/make_test_data.sh
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ late2="2012-08-31T20:00:00"
 mkdata() {
   ${bindir}/make_test_data.py --project "$project" \
     --user "$user" --start "$2" --end "$3" \
-    --resource "$1" --counter instance:m1.tiny --volume 1
+    --resource "$1" --counter instance --volume 1
 }
 
 dates=(early1 early2 start middle1 middle2 middle3 middle4 end late1 late2)