diff --git a/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-docs/src/main/asciidoc/spring-boot-features.adoc b/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-docs/src/main/asciidoc/spring-boot-features.adoc
index 9083c13db62..18b93a1ccb4 100644
--- a/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-docs/src/main/asciidoc/spring-boot-features.adoc
+++ b/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-docs/src/main/asciidoc/spring-boot-features.adoc
@@ -7773,6 +7773,11 @@ class KotlinExampleProperties {
 }
 ----
 
+In order to allow <<appendix-configuration-metadata#configuration-metadata-annotation-processor,
+generating your own metadata>> by using the annotation processor,
+{kotlin-documentation}kapt.html[`kapt` should be configured] with the
+`spring-boot-configuration-processor` dependency.
+
 
 [[boot-features-kotlin-testing]]
 === Testing