diff --git a/docs/src/docs/asciidoc/documenting-your-api.adoc b/docs/src/docs/asciidoc/documenting-your-api.adoc
index 9242fcbc..7e53f1d9 100644
--- a/docs/src/docs/asciidoc/documenting-your-api.adoc
+++ b/docs/src/docs/asciidoc/documenting-your-api.adoc
@@ -49,6 +49,11 @@ response and the link has not been marked as optional.
 If you do not want to document a link, you can mark it as ignored. This will prevent it
 from appearing in the generated snippet while avoiding the failure described above.
 
+Links can also be documented in a relaxed mode where any undocumented links will not cause
+a test failure. To do so, use the `relaxedLinks` method on
+`org.springframework.restdocs.hypermedia.HypermediaDocumentation`. This can be useful when
+documenting a particular scenario where you only want to focus on a subset of the links.
+
 
 
 [[documenting-your-api-hypermedia-link-formats]]
@@ -144,6 +149,12 @@ treated as having been documented.
 If you do not want to document a field, you can mark it as ignored. This will prevent it
 from appearing in the generated snippet while avoiding the failure described above.
 
+Fields can also be documented in a relaxed mode where any undocumented fields will not
+cause a test failure. To do so, use the `relaxedRequestFields` and `relaxedResponseFields`
+methods on
+`org.springframework.restdocs.payload.PayloadDocumentation`. This can be useful when
+documenting a particular scenario where you only want to focus on a subset of the payload.
+
 TIP: By default, Spring REST Docs will assume that the payload you are documenting is
 JSON. If you want to document an XML payload the content type of the request or response
 must be compatible with `application/xml`.
@@ -454,6 +465,12 @@ If you do not want to document a request parameter, you can mark it as ignored.
 prevent it from appearing in the generated snippet while avoiding the failure described
 above.
 
+Request parameters can also be documented in a relaxed mode where any undocumented
+parameters will not cause a test failure. To do so, use the `relaxedRequestParameters`
+method on `org.springframework.restdocs.request.RequestDocumentation`. This can be useful
+when documenting a particular scenario where you only want to focus on a subset of the
+request parameters.
+
 
 
 [[documenting-your-api-path-parameters]]
@@ -498,6 +515,12 @@ When documenting path parameters, the test will fail if an undocumented path par
 is used in the request. Similarly, the test will also fail if a documented path parameter
 is not found in the request and the path parameter has not been marked as optional.
 
+Path parameters can also be documented in a relaxed mode where any undocumented
+parameters will not cause a test failure. To do so, use the `relaxedPathParameters`
+method on `org.springframework.restdocs.request.RequestDocumentation`. This can be useful
+when documenting a particular scenario where you only want to focus on a subset of the
+path parameters.
+
 If you do not want to document a path parameter, you can mark it as ignored. This will
 prevent it from appearing in the generated snippet while avoiding the failure described
 above.