diff --git a/docs/data-sources/zone.md b/docs/data-sources/zone.md
index eb2475e777..65d7e04e0e 100644
--- a/docs/data-sources/zone.md
+++ b/docs/data-sources/zone.md
@@ -20,9 +20,7 @@ resource or swap to `cloudflare_zones` to further filter the results.
 
 ```terraform
 data "cloudflare_zone" "example" {
-  filter {
-    name = "example.com"
-  }
+  name = "example.com"
 }
 
 resource "cloudflare_record" "example" {
diff --git a/examples/data-sources/cloudflare_zone/data-source.tf b/examples/data-sources/cloudflare_zone/data-source.tf
index 8ad3f99774..cf0b08c748 100644
--- a/examples/data-sources/cloudflare_zone/data-source.tf
+++ b/examples/data-sources/cloudflare_zone/data-source.tf
@@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
 data "cloudflare_zone" "example" {
-  filter {
-    name = "example.com"
-  }
+  name = "example.com"
 }
 
 resource "cloudflare_record" "example" {