diff --git a/doc/source/admin/special_topics/bug_reports.rst b/doc/source/admin/special_topics/bug_reports.rst
index 81db02b1276..e58b36e3f88 100644
--- a/doc/source/admin/special_topics/bug_reports.rst
+++ b/doc/source/admin/special_topics/bug_reports.rst
@@ -6,18 +6,17 @@ gives the administrator more control over how and when bug reports are
 generated. In the past, email reports would be generated when the user clicks
 the button and only then. Sentry reports would be generated for every failing
 tool, as soon as the tool failed. This disparate behaviour was unified under a
-single configuration file, ``config/error_report.xml.sample``.
+single configuration file, ``config/error_report.yml.sample``.
 
 Let's look at that briefly:
 
-.. code-block:: xml
+.. code-block:: yml
 
-    <?xml version="1.0"?>
-    <bug_reports>
-        <email verbose="true" user_submission="true" />
-        <json user_submission="false" directory="/tmp/reports/" />
-        <sentry user_submission="false"/>
-    </bug_reports>
+    - type: email
+      verbose: true
+      user_submission: true
+    - type: sentry
+      user_submission: false
 
 The actual configuration file contains more documentation which has been
 stripped out here for the sake of brevity. As you can see, there are a couple of
@@ -32,10 +31,10 @@ are common to all plugins:
   involvement
 
 ``verbose``
-  When ``user_submission=True``, and ``verbose=True``, this indicates that a
+  When ``user_submission: true``, and ``verbose: true``, this indicates that a
   message is to be displayed to the end user. For example, the email plugin will
-  inform the user that a mail has been sent. Or the JSON plugin will inform the
-  user that a file has been written to a specific directory.
+  inform the user that an email has been sent. Similarly, the JSON plugin will
+  inform the user that a file has been written to a specific directory.
 
 Email
 -----
@@ -56,8 +55,8 @@ This is a demo-plugin that writes the contents of the error report to a file in
 your temp directory. This just serves as a full-featured reference
 implementation that others can use to build their own bug reporting plugins.
 
-When ``verbose="true" user_submission="true"``, the plugin will inform the user
-that a report has been written to ``/tmp/<number>``.
+When ``user_submission: true`` and ``verbose: true``, the plugin will inform the
+user that a report has been written to ``/tmp/reports/<number>``.
 
 Sentry
 ------
@@ -66,18 +65,20 @@ This refactors the existing on-failure submit-to-sentry behaviour into a bug
 reporting plugin. Now, for example, you are able to disable the automatic
 submission to sentry and only run that whenever the user reports it.
 
-When ``verbose="true" user_submission="true"``, the plugin will inform the user
-that ``Submitted bug report to Sentry. Your guru meditation number is
+When ``user_submission: true`` and ``verbose: true``, the plugin will inform the
+user with ``Submitted bug report to Sentry. Your guru meditation number is
 dc907d44ce294f78b267a56f68e5cd1a``, using the same phrasing that is common to
 users from Galaxy internal server errors.
 
 InfluxDB
 --------
 
-This sends data directly to an InfluxDB server that you have available. If you wish to
-use this plugin you will first need to ``pip install influxdb`` in Galaxy's virtual environment.
+This sends data directly to an InfluxDB server that you have available. If you
+wish to use this plugin you will first need to ``pip install influxdb`` in
+Galaxy's Python virtual environment.
 
-This plugin will send a value of ``1`` every time an error occurs, tagged with important information such as:
+This plugin will send a value of ``1`` every time an error occurs, tagged with
+important information such as:
 
 - handler
 - tool_id
@@ -101,4 +102,4 @@ a matching title. If there are no matching issues, it opens a new issue,
 otherwise, it makes a comment on the existing issue. This provides some measure
 of de-duplication.
 
-Issues will be tagged with the tool + version
+Issues will be tagged with the tool and version.