diff --git a/docs/src/main/asciidoc/spring-cloud-commons.adoc b/docs/src/main/asciidoc/spring-cloud-commons.adoc
index 4ec6640e..8906ccce 100644
--- a/docs/src/main/asciidoc/spring-cloud-commons.adoc
+++ b/docs/src/main/asciidoc/spring-cloud-commons.adoc
@@ -362,8 +362,7 @@ for details of how the `RestTemplate` is set up.
 ==== Retrying Failed Requests
 
 A load balanced `RestTemplate` can be configured to retry failed requests.
-By default this logic is disabled, you can enable it by setting
-`spring.cloud.loadbalancer.retry.enabled=true` and adding link:https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-retry[Spring Retry] to your application's classpath.  The load balanced `RestTemplate` will
+By default this logic is disabled, you can enable it by adding link:https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-retry[Spring Retry] to your application's classpath.  The load balanced `RestTemplate` will
 honor some of the Ribbon configuration values related to retrying failed requests.
 The properties you can use are `client.ribbon.MaxAutoRetries`,
 `client.ribbon.MaxAutoRetriesNextServer`, and `client.ribbon.OkToRetryOnAllOperations`.
diff --git a/spring-cloud-commons/src/main/java/org/springframework/cloud/client/loadbalancer/LoadBalancerRetryProperties.java b/spring-cloud-commons/src/main/java/org/springframework/cloud/client/loadbalancer/LoadBalancerRetryProperties.java
index 634249c0..b750d895 100644
--- a/spring-cloud-commons/src/main/java/org/springframework/cloud/client/loadbalancer/LoadBalancerRetryProperties.java
+++ b/spring-cloud-commons/src/main/java/org/springframework/cloud/client/loadbalancer/LoadBalancerRetryProperties.java
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ import org.springframework.boot.context.properties.ConfigurationProperties;
  */
 @ConfigurationProperties("spring.cloud.loadbalancer.retry")
 public class LoadBalancerRetryProperties {
-    private boolean enabled = false;
+    private boolean enabled = true;
 
     /**
      * Returns true if the load balancer should retry failed requests.