diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index d036a5afaad..d45abd7ad4c 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -22,7 +22,10 @@ release.
 - Add database connection pool metrics semantic conventions
   ([#2273](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification/pull/2273)).
 - Specify optional support for an Exponential Histogram Aggregation.
-  ([#2252](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification/pull/2252))
+  ([#2252](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification/pull/2252)).
+- Change JVM runtime metric `process.runtime.jvm.memory.max`
+  to `process.runtime.jvm.memory.limit`
+- ([#2605](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification/pull/2605)).
 
 ### Logs
 
diff --git a/specification/metrics/semantic_conventions/runtime-environment-metrics.md b/specification/metrics/semantic_conventions/runtime-environment-metrics.md
index 44b09c95043..eae8dcd811d 100644
--- a/specification/metrics/semantic_conventions/runtime-environment-metrics.md
+++ b/specification/metrics/semantic_conventions/runtime-environment-metrics.md
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ All JVM metric attributes are required unless otherwise indicated.
 |                                            |                                                          |         |                                           |                                                   |            | pool          | Name of pool [1]      |
 | process.runtime.jvm.memory.committed       | Measure of memory committed                              | Bytes   | `By`                                      | UpDownCounter                                     | Int64      | type          | `"heap"`, `"nonheap"` |
 |                                            |                                                          |         |                                           |                                                   |            | pool          | Name of pool [1]      |
-| process.runtime.jvm.memory.max             | Measure of max obtainable memory                         | Bytes   | `By`                                      | UpDownCounter                                     | Int64      | type          | `"heap"`, `"nonheap"` |
+| process.runtime.jvm.memory.limit           | Measure of max obtainable memory                         | Bytes   | `By`                                      | UpDownCounter                                     | Int64      | type          | `"heap"`, `"nonheap"` |
 |                                            |                                                          |         |                                           |                                                   |            | pool          | Name of pool [1]      |
 | process.runtime.jvm.threads.count          | Number of executing threads                              | threads | `{threads}`                               | UpDownCounter                                     | Int64      |               |                       |
 | process.runtime.jvm.classes.loaded         | Number of classes loaded since JVM start                 | classes | `{classes}`                               | Counter                                           | Int64      |               |                       |