diff --git a/docs/src/main/asciidoc/spring-cloud-sleuth.adoc b/docs/src/main/asciidoc/spring-cloud-sleuth.adoc
index 992166fdd..7d002f5b3 100644
--- a/docs/src/main/asciidoc/spring-cloud-sleuth.adoc
+++ b/docs/src/main/asciidoc/spring-cloud-sleuth.adoc
@@ -508,7 +508,8 @@ adding a Channel Binder implementation
 (e.g. `spring-cloud-starter-stream-rabbit` for RabbitMQ or
 `spring-cloud-starter-stream-kafka` for Kafka). This will
 automatically turn your app into a producer of messages with payload
-type `Spans`.
+type `Spans`. The channel name to which the spans will be sent
+is called `sleuth`.
 
 === Zipkin Consumer