diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml
index 6091105a860765328f6f015123300985d18bd8bd..4fadca955c3e22a2335e749c569ed2dee958f15a 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml
@@ -2095,7 +2095,7 @@ SET ENABLE_SEQSCAN TO OFF;
       to send replication data to one or more standby servers.
       Note that in addition to these parameters,
       <xref linkend="guc-wal-level"> must be set appropriately on the master
-      server, and may also want to enable WAL archiving as
+      server, and optionally WAL archiving can be enabled as
       well (see <xref linkend="runtime-config-wal-archiving">).
       The values of these parameters on standby servers are irrelevant,
       although you may wish to set them there in preparation for the
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 8da8f85e7096ed7404faa7eae92cd1caed1854b1..a19e3f06ccc14eaeea69f7e349bc27fc0308f8ac 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -314,7 +314,8 @@ postgres: <replaceable>user</> <replaceable>database</> <replaceable>host</> <re
       The client's host name will be available only if
       <xref linkend="guc-log-hostname"> is set or if the user's host name
       needed to be looked up during <filename>pg_hba.conf</filename>
-      processing.
+      processing. Only directly connected standbys are listed; no information
+      about downstream standby servers is recorded.
      </entry>
      </row>