diff --git a/akka-docs/rst/java/event-bus.rst b/akka-docs/rst/java/event-bus.rst
index a3b7ed5cb9..ae1bb7070d 100644
--- a/akka-docs/rst/java/event-bus.rst
+++ b/akka-docs/rst/java/event-bus.rst
@@ -141,6 +141,10 @@ it can be subscribed like this:
 
 .. includecode:: code/docs/event/LoggingDocTest.java#deadletters
 
+.. note::
+   The event stream is a *local facility*, meaning that it will *not* distribute events to other nodes in a clustered environment (unless you subscribe a Remote Actor to the stream explicitly).
+   If you need to broadcast events in an Akka cluster, *without* knowing your recipients explicitly (i.e. obtaining their ActorRefs), you may want to look into: :ref:`distributed-pub-sub`.
+
 Default Handlers
 ----------------
 
diff --git a/akka-docs/rst/scala/event-bus.rst b/akka-docs/rst/scala/event-bus.rst
index 34b4f0e035..b26af8491e 100644
--- a/akka-docs/rst/scala/event-bus.rst
+++ b/akka-docs/rst/scala/event-bus.rst
@@ -136,6 +136,10 @@ how a simple subscription works:
 
 .. includecode:: code/docs/event/LoggingDocSpec.scala#deadletters
 
+.. note::
+   The event stream is a *local facility*, meaning that it will *not* distribute events to other nodes in a clustered environment (unless you subscribe a Remote Actor to the stream explicitly).
+   If you need to broadcast events in an Akka cluster, *without* knowing your recipients explicitly (i.e. obtaining their ActorRefs), you may want to look into: :ref:`distributed-pub-sub`.
+
 Default Handlers
 ----------------