diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 79143fb..9ee23ed 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 - `Inspector.ArchiveTaskByKey` is replaced with `Inspector.ArchiveTask`
 - `inspeq` package is removed. All types and functions from the package is moved to `asynq` package.
 - `WorkerInfo` field names have changed.
+- `Inspector.CancelActiveTask` is renamed to `Inspector.CancelProcessing`
 
 ## [0.17.2] - 2021-06-06
 
diff --git a/inspector.go b/inspector.go
index 82ad6f8..0f15435 100644
--- a/inspector.go
+++ b/inspector.go
@@ -546,11 +546,11 @@ func (i *Inspector) ArchiveTask(qname, id string) error {
 	return nil
 }
 
-// CancelActiveTask sends a signal to cancel processing of the task with
-// the given id. CancelActiveTask is best-effort, which means that it does not
+// CancelProcessing sends a signal to cancel processing of the task
+// given a task id. CancelProcessing is best-effort, which means that it does not
 // guarantee that the task with the given id will be canceled. The return
 // value only indicates whether the cancelation signal has been sent.
-func (i *Inspector) CancelActiveTask(id string) error {
+func (i *Inspector) CancelProcessing(id string) error {
 	return i.rdb.PublishCancelation(id)
 }