diff --git a/docs/source/developers/continuous_integration/docker.rst b/docs/source/developers/continuous_integration/docker.rst
index 2622c39497da5..129b5d0bcf135 100644
--- a/docs/source/developers/continuous_integration/docker.rst
+++ b/docs/source/developers/continuous_integration/docker.rst
@@ -165,7 +165,8 @@ to ``archery``.
 
     archery --debug docker run ubuntu-cpp
 
-which translates to passing ``--progress=plain`` to docker(-compose) build command.
+In addition to enabling ``DEBUG``-level logging, this also translates to
+passing ``--progress=plain`` to docker(-compose) build command.
 
 Docker Volume Caches
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