diff --git a/docs/api.md b/docs/api.md
index 16159625dbed47ed39ebbc0c79c4807717aa8871..9980878ffec596020ab98323fb4e8c18f32ea9f0 100644
--- a/docs/api.md
+++ b/docs/api.md
@@ -29,8 +29,8 @@ The Loki server has the following API endpoints (_Note:_ Authentication is out o
   - `query`: a logQL query
   - `limit`: max number of entries to return
   - `start`: the start time for the query, as a nanosecond Unix epoch (nanoseconds since 1970). Default is always one hour ago.
-  - `end`: the end time for the query, as a nanosecond Unix epoch (nanoseconds since 1970).
-  - `direction`: `forward` or `backward`, useful when specifying a limit
+  - `end`: the end time for the query, as a nanosecond Unix epoch (nanoseconds since 1970). Default is current time.
+  - `direction`: `forward` or `backward`, useful when specifying a limit. Default is backward.
   - `regexp`: a regex to filter the returned results, will eventually be rolled into the query language
 
   Loki needs to query the index store in order to find log streams for particular labels and the store is spread out by time,
diff --git a/docs/operations.md b/docs/operations.md
index 5c5bb4bb2607892bd41bf249cfae09d17460b5e2..79e3651f078933963e0e9de89abea681793a6927 100644
--- a/docs/operations.md
+++ b/docs/operations.md
@@ -154,6 +154,6 @@ The table-manager allows deleting old indices by rotating a number of different
 create the table manually you cannot easily erase old data and your index just grows indefinitely.
 
 If you set your DynamoDB table manually, ensure you set the primary index key to `h`
-(string) and use `r` (binary) as the sort key. Also set the "perior" attribute in the yaml to zero.
+(string) and use `r` (binary) as the sort key. Also set the "period" attribute in the yaml to zero.
 Make sure adjust your throughput base on your usage.
 
diff --git a/docs/promtail.md b/docs/promtail.md
index b8be25cec75af1803fee77d7671bfedea21305fa..5dd07737e9aece6b5f85edf74566dc364a178fe3 100644
--- a/docs/promtail.md
+++ b/docs/promtail.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ## Promtail and scrape_configs
 
-Promtail is an agent which reads the Kubernets pod log files and sends streams of log data to
+Promtail is an agent which reads the Kubernetes pod log files and sends streams of log data to
 the centralised Loki instances along with a set of labels. Each container in a single pod will usually yield a
 single log stream with a set of labels based on that particular pod Kubernetes labels.