diff --git a/admin.rst b/admin.rst
index 9d4841c8d..8334fd02b 100644
--- a/admin.rst
+++ b/admin.rst
@@ -12,7 +12,6 @@ The first step is to create an Nginx configuration file that proxies requests to
     # upstream configuration
     upstream postgrest {
       server localhost:3000;
-      keepalive 64;
     }
     # ...
     server {