diff --git a/src/Servers/Kestrel/Core/src/Features/IHttpMinResponseDataRateFeature.cs b/src/Servers/Kestrel/Core/src/Features/IHttpMinResponseDataRateFeature.cs
index c90d3cbba0b4..f69ad83a8d2d 100644
--- a/src/Servers/Kestrel/Core/src/Features/IHttpMinResponseDataRateFeature.cs
+++ b/src/Servers/Kestrel/Core/src/Features/IHttpMinResponseDataRateFeature.cs
@@ -17,5 +17,9 @@ public interface IHttpMinResponseDataRateFeature
     /// This feature is not available for HTTP/2 requests. Instead, use <see cref="KestrelServerLimits.MinResponseDataRate"/>
     /// for server-wide configuration which applies to both HTTP/2 and HTTP/1.x.
     /// </summary>
+    /// <remarks>
+    /// This rate may not accurately measure how much data a client is reading. This is because data is read from the application
+    /// until the transport's operating system buffers are full.
+    /// </remarks>
     MinDataRate? MinDataRate { get; set; }
 }
diff --git a/src/Servers/Kestrel/Core/src/KestrelServerLimits.cs b/src/Servers/Kestrel/Core/src/KestrelServerLimits.cs
index ef6a9ea3264e..579f631f8819 100644
--- a/src/Servers/Kestrel/Core/src/KestrelServerLimits.cs
+++ b/src/Servers/Kestrel/Core/src/KestrelServerLimits.cs
@@ -378,6 +378,10 @@ internal void Serialize(Utf8JsonWriter writer)
     /// bytes divided by the data rate (i.e. the maximum amount of time that write should take to complete with the specified data rate).
     /// The connection is aborted if the write has not completed by the time that timer expires.
     /// </para>
+    /// <para>
+    /// This rate may not accurately measure how much data a client is reading. This is because data is read from the application
+    /// until the transport's operating system buffers are full.
+    /// </para>
     /// </remarks>
     public MinDataRate? MinResponseDataRate { get; set; } =
         // Matches the default IIS minBytesPerSecond