diff --git a/api-ref/src/docbkx/ch_compute-v2.1.xml b/api-ref/src/docbkx/ch_compute-v2.1.xml
index 13fcfa737..1ad2807f7 100644
--- a/api-ref/src/docbkx/ch_compute-v2.1.xml
+++ b/api-ref/src/docbkx/ch_compute-v2.1.xml
@@ -659,10 +659,9 @@
    <section xml:id="os-hypervisors-v2.1">
       <title>Hypervisors (os-hypervisors)</title>
       <para>
-        Lists all hypervisors, shows statistics for all hypervisors, which
-        includes information from the machine that hosts the hypervisor
-        through the API for the hypervisor (XenAPI or KVM/libvirt), shows
-        details for a hypervisor, and shows the uptime for a hypervisor.
+        Lists all hypervisors, shows summary statistics for all hypervisors
+        over all compute nodes, shows details for a hypervisor, and shows the
+        uptime for a hypervisor.
       </para>
       <wadl:resources
          href="../wadls/compute-api/src/v2.1/wadl/os-hypervisors-v2.1.wadl"
diff --git a/api-ref/src/wadls/compute-api/src/v2.1/wadl/os-hypervisors-v2.1.wadl b/api-ref/src/wadls/compute-api/src/v2.1/wadl/os-hypervisors-v2.1.wadl
index 72a3f9366..62cd0c775 100644
--- a/api-ref/src/wadls/compute-api/src/v2.1/wadl/os-hypervisors-v2.1.wadl
+++ b/api-ref/src/wadls/compute-api/src/v2.1/wadl/os-hypervisors-v2.1.wadl
@@ -70,8 +70,10 @@
     <method name="GET" id="showHypervisorStatistics">
         <wadl:doc xml:lang="EN" title="Show hypervisor statistics"
             xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook">
-            <para role="shortdesc">Shows statistics for all
-                hypervisors.</para>
+            <para role="shortdesc">
+                Shows summary statistics for all hypervisors over all compute
+                nodes.
+            </para>
         </wadl:doc>
         <response status="200">
             <representation mediaType="application/json">