diff --git a/docs/management/advanced-options.asciidoc b/docs/management/advanced-options.asciidoc
index 26227270c50c6..2157ff734cb19 100644
--- a/docs/management/advanced-options.asciidoc
+++ b/docs/management/advanced-options.asciidoc
@@ -259,8 +259,12 @@ Highlights results in *Discover* and saved searches on dashboards. Highlighting
 slows requests when working on big documents.
 
 [[doctable-legacy]]`doc_table:legacy`:: 
-Control the way the Discover's table looks and works. Set this property to `true` to revert to the legacy implementation.
+Controls the way the document table looks and works. Set this property to `true` to revert to the legacy implementation.
 
+[[discover-searchFieldsFromSource]]`discover:searchFieldsFromSource`::
+Load fields from the original JSON {ref}/mapping-source-field.html[`_source`].
+When disabled, *Discover* loads fields using the {es} search API's
+{ref}/search-fields.html#search-fields-param[`fields`] parameter.
 
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 [[kibana-ml-settings]]