diff --git a/docs/reference/ml/apis/find-file-structure.asciidoc b/docs/reference/ml/apis/find-file-structure.asciidoc
index 4f21d70182287..e72555d272356 100644
--- a/docs/reference/ml/apis/find-file-structure.asciidoc
+++ b/docs/reference/ml/apis/find-file-structure.asciidoc
@@ -1284,7 +1284,7 @@ If the request does not encounter errors, you receive the following result:
 
 If you try to analyze a lot of data then the analysis will take a long time.
 If you want to limit the amount of processing your {es} cluster performs for
-a request, use the timeout query parameter. The analysis will be aborted and
+a request, use the `timeout` query parameter. The analysis will be aborted and
 an error returned when the timeout expires. For example, you can replace 20000
 lines in the previous example with 200000 and set a 1 second timeout on the
 analysis:
diff --git a/x-pack/plugin/ml/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/ml/filestructurefinder/FileStructureFinderManagerTests.java b/x-pack/plugin/ml/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/ml/filestructurefinder/FileStructureFinderManagerTests.java
index 5e0aa02d6f0e0..4329e076ce6b8 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugin/ml/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/ml/filestructurefinder/FileStructureFinderManagerTests.java
+++ b/x-pack/plugin/ml/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/ml/filestructurefinder/FileStructureFinderManagerTests.java
@@ -157,16 +157,16 @@ public void testFindFileStructureTimeout() throws IOException, InterruptedExcept
                     // Expected if timeout occurs and the input stream is closed before junk generation is complete
                 }
             });
-            junkProducer.start();
 
             try (InputStream bigInput = new PipedInputStream(generator)) {
 
+                junkProducer.start();
+
                 ElasticsearchTimeoutException e = expectThrows(ElasticsearchTimeoutException.class,
                     () -> structureFinderManager.findFileStructure(explanation, linesOfJunk - 1, bigInput, EMPTY_OVERRIDES, timeout));
 
                 assertThat(e.getMessage(), startsWith("Aborting structure analysis during ["));
                 assertThat(e.getMessage(), endsWith("] as it has taken longer than the timeout of [" + timeout + "]"));
-                explanation.add(e.getMessage());
             }
 
             // This shouldn't take anything like 10 seconds, but VMs can stall so it's best to