diff --git a/docs/en/ingest-management/elastic-agent/configuration/elastic-agent-standalone-features.asciidoc b/docs/en/ingest-management/elastic-agent/configuration/elastic-agent-standalone-features.asciidoc
index d186b6acb6..a91c62bb52 100644
--- a/docs/en/ingest-management/elastic-agent/configuration/elastic-agent-standalone-features.asciidoc
+++ b/docs/en/ingest-management/elastic-agent/configuration/elastic-agent-standalone-features.asciidoc
@@ -35,6 +35,8 @@ For FQDN reporting to work as expected, the hostname of the current host must ei
 * Have one of its corresponding IP addresses respond successfully to a reverse DNS lookup.
 --
 +
+If neither pre-requisite is satisfied, `host.name` continues to report the hostname of the current host as if the FQDN feature flag were not enabled.
++
 To enable fully qualified domain names set `enabled: true` for the `fqdn` setting:
 +
 ["source","yaml",subs="attributes"]