diff --git a/gdi/opentelemetry/components/otlphttp-exporter.rst b/gdi/opentelemetry/components/otlphttp-exporter.rst
index 201d76bdb..bb0a262c0 100644
--- a/gdi/opentelemetry/components/otlphttp-exporter.rst
+++ b/gdi/opentelemetry/components/otlphttp-exporter.rst
@@ -124,6 +124,7 @@ By default, gzip compression is turned on. To turn it off use the following conf
       ...
       compression: none
 
+.. _otlphttp-exporter-token-passthrough:
 
 Associate passthroughs to an access token
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diff --git a/gdi/opentelemetry/deployment-modes.rst b/gdi/opentelemetry/deployment-modes.rst
index c76f47c1d..7b72862e8 100644
--- a/gdi/opentelemetry/deployment-modes.rst
+++ b/gdi/opentelemetry/deployment-modes.rst
@@ -101,6 +101,13 @@ Learn more at :ref:`signalfx-exporter`.
 
 .. _collector-current-mode:
 
+Token usage with the ``otlphttp`` exporter
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+If any of your Collectors in agent mode exports data to the ``otlp`` receiver running on the gateway and you want to use the token set at the source instead of the gateway's token, uncomment ``include_metadata: true`` in the default gateway config. 
+
+For more details see :new-page:`Default gateway config <https://github.com/signalfx/splunk-otel-collector/blob/main/cmd/otelcol/config/collector/gateway_config.yaml>` in GitHub and :ref:`otlphttp-exporter-token-passthrough`.
+
 What mode is my Collector deployed as? How can I change it?
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