diff --git a/docs/content/configuration/ingress-resources/advanced-configuration-with-annotations.md b/docs/content/configuration/ingress-resources/advanced-configuration-with-annotations.md
index 6139cf2013..342e5342bf 100644
--- a/docs/content/configuration/ingress-resources/advanced-configuration-with-annotations.md
+++ b/docs/content/configuration/ingress-resources/advanced-configuration-with-annotations.md
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ The table below summarizes the available annotations.
 |``nginx.org/limit-req-dry-run`` | N/A | Enables the dry run mode. In this mode, the rate limit is not actually applied, but the number of excessive requests is accounted as usual in the shared memory zone. | false | true |
 |``nginx.org/limit-req-log-level`` | N/A | Sets the desired logging level for cases when the server refuses to process requests due to rate exceeding, or delays request processing. Allowed values are info, notice, warn or error. | error | info |
 |``nginx.org/limit-req-reject-code`` | N/A | Sets the status code to return in response to rejected requests. Must fall into the range 400..599. | 429 | 503 |
-|``nginx.org/limit-req-scale`` | N/A | Enables a constant rate-limit by dividing the configured rate by the number of nginx-ingress pods currently serving traffic. This adjustment ensures that the rate-limit remains consistent, even as the number of nginx-pods fluctuates due to autoscaling. | false | true |
+|``nginx.org/limit-req-scale`` | N/A | Enables a constant rate-limit by dividing the configured rate by the number of nginx-ingress pods currently serving traffic. This adjustment ensures that the rate-limit remains consistent, even as the number of nginx-pods fluctuates due to autoscaling. Note: This will not work properly if requests from a client are not evenly distributed accross all ingress pods (sticky sessions, long lived TCP-Connections with many requests etc.). In such cases using NGINX+'s zone-sync feature instead would give better results. | false | true |
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 ### Snippets and Custom Templates
diff --git a/docs/content/configuration/policy-resource.md b/docs/content/configuration/policy-resource.md
index 65691c56e4..a28b703cc8 100644
--- a/docs/content/configuration/policy-resource.md
+++ b/docs/content/configuration/policy-resource.md
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ rateLimit:
 |``dryRun`` | Enables the dry run mode. In this mode, the rate limit is not actually applied, but the number of excessive requests is accounted as usual in the shared memory zone. | ``bool`` | No |
 |``logLevel`` | Sets the desired logging level for cases when the server refuses to process requests due to rate exceeding, or delays request processing. Allowed values are ``info``, ``notice``, ``warn`` or ``error``. Default is ``error``. | ``string`` | No |
 |``rejectCode`` | Sets the status code to return in response to rejected requests. Must fall into the range ``400..599``. Default is ``503``. | ``int`` | No |
-|``scale`` | Enables a constant rate-limit by dividing the configured rate by the number of nginx-ingress pods currently serving traffic. This adjustment ensures that the rate-limit remains consistent, even as the number of nginx-pods fluctuates due to autoscaling. | ``bool`` | No |
+|``scale`` | Enables a constant rate-limit by dividing the configured rate by the number of nginx-ingress pods currently serving traffic. This adjustment ensures that the rate-limit remains consistent, even as the number of nginx-pods fluctuates due to autoscaling. Note: This will not work properly if requests from a client are not evenly distributed accross all ingress pods (sticky sessions, long lived TCP-Connections with many requests etc.). In such cases using NGINX+'s zone-sync feature instead would give better results. | ``bool`` | No |
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 > For each policy referenced in a VirtualServer and/or its VirtualServerRoutes, NGINX Ingress Controller will generate a single rate limiting zone defined by the [`limit_req_zone`](http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_limit_req_module.html#limit_req_zone) directive. If two VirtualServer resources reference the same policy, NGINX Ingress Controller will generate two different rate limiting zones, one zone per VirtualServer.