diff --git a/app/views/projects/pipelines_settings/_show.html.haml b/app/views/projects/pipelines_settings/_show.html.haml
index 8024fb8979d6fa4f5942b4d04d1d704e87ddb086..132f6372e4099b15fc67c3df4a1fb9cbc169bdfd 100644
--- a/app/views/projects/pipelines_settings/_show.html.haml
+++ b/app/views/projects/pipelines_settings/_show.html.haml
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@
           = f.label :build_coverage_regex, "Test coverage parsing", class: 'label-light'
           .input-group
             %span.input-group-addon /
-            = f.text_field :build_coverage_regex, class: 'form-control', placeholder: '\(\d+.\d+\%\) covered'
+            = f.text_field :build_coverage_regex, class: 'form-control', placeholder: 'Regular expression'
             %span.input-group-addon /
           %p.help-block
             A regular expression that will be used to find the test coverage
diff --git a/changelogs/unreleased/28389-ux-problem-with-pipeline-coverage-placeholder.yml b/changelogs/unreleased/28389-ux-problem-with-pipeline-coverage-placeholder.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ed357d86fe349ee8d155ccd2cb5629137f928fbf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelogs/unreleased/28389-ux-problem-with-pipeline-coverage-placeholder.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+---
+title: Changed coverage reg expression placeholder text to be more like a placeholder
+merge_request:
+author: