diff --git a/docs/configuration.asciidoc b/docs/configuration.asciidoc
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--- a/docs/configuration.asciidoc
+++ b/docs/configuration.asciidoc
@@ -123,6 +123,18 @@ A boolean specifying if the agent should collect performance metrics for the app
 
 Note that both `active` and `instrument` needs to be `true` for instrumentation to be running.
 
+[[instrument-incoming-http-requests]]
+==== `instrumentIncomingHTTPRequests?:`
+
+* *Type:* Boolean
+* *Default:* `true`
+* *Env:* `ELASTIC_APM_INSTRUMENT_INCOMING_HTTP_REQUESTS`
+
+A boolean specifying if the agent should instrument incoming HTTP requests.
+
+To configure if outgoing http requests should be instrumented,
+see <<disable-instrumentations, `disableInstrumentations`>>.
+
 [[central-config]]
 ==== `centralConfig`
 
@@ -660,6 +672,9 @@ see the https://github.com/elastic/apm-agent-nodejs/tree/master/lib/instrumentat
 Note that not all modules represented in this directory will generate spans,
 and adding those to this array has no effect.
 
+To configure if incoming http requests should be instrumented,
+see <<instrument-incoming-http-requests, `instrumentIncomingHTTPRequests`>>.
+
 [[container-id]]
 ==== `containerId`