diff --git a/docs/source/distributions/self_hosted_distro/remote-vllm.md b/docs/source/distributions/self_hosted_distro/remote-vllm.md
index efa443778..46df56008 100644
--- a/docs/source/distributions/self_hosted_distro/remote-vllm.md
+++ b/docs/source/distributions/self_hosted_distro/remote-vllm.md
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ The following environment variables can be configured:
 In the following sections, we'll use AMD, NVIDIA or Intel GPUs to serve as hardware accelerators for the vLLM
 server, which acts as both the LLM inference provider and the safety provider. Note that vLLM also
 [supports many other hardware accelerators](https://docs.vllm.ai/en/latest/getting_started/installation.html) and
-that we only use GPUs here for demonstration purposes.
+that we only use GPUs here for demonstration purposes. Note that if you run into issues, you can include the environment variable `--env VLLM_DEBUG_LOG_API_SERVER_RESPONSE=true` (available in vLLM v0.8.3 and above) in the `docker run` command to enable log response from API server for debugging.
 
 ### Setting up vLLM server on AMD GPU
 
diff --git a/llama_stack/templates/remote-vllm/doc_template.md b/llama_stack/templates/remote-vllm/doc_template.md
index fe50e9d49..3cede6080 100644
--- a/llama_stack/templates/remote-vllm/doc_template.md
+++ b/llama_stack/templates/remote-vllm/doc_template.md
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ The following environment variables can be configured:
 In the following sections, we'll use AMD, NVIDIA or Intel GPUs to serve as hardware accelerators for the vLLM
 server, which acts as both the LLM inference provider and the safety provider. Note that vLLM also
 [supports many other hardware accelerators](https://docs.vllm.ai/en/latest/getting_started/installation.html) and
-that we only use GPUs here for demonstration purposes.
+that we only use GPUs here for demonstration purposes. Note that if you run into issues, you can include the environment variable `--env VLLM_DEBUG_LOG_API_SERVER_RESPONSE=true` (available in vLLM v0.8.3 and above) in the `docker run` command to enable log response from API server for debugging.
 
 ### Setting up vLLM server on AMD GPU