diff --git a/doc/man/man5/slurm.conf.5 b/doc/man/man5/slurm.conf.5
index 0f7a732d2b8b6b4b4f954660d9c6e87018a78b47..53f4833d947091d38ef40c6020717a9720ab1c0e 100644
--- a/doc/man/man5/slurm.conf.5
+++ b/doc/man/man5/slurm.conf.5
@@ -1113,7 +1113,9 @@ Also see \fBDefaultStorageHost\fR.
 The fully qualified file name where job completion records are written
 when the \fBJobCompType\fR is "jobcomp/filetxt" or the database where
 job completion records are stored when the \fBJobCompType\fR is a
-database.
+database or an url with format http://yourelasticserver:port where job
+completion records are indexed when the \fBJobCompType\fR is
+"jobcomp/elasticsearch".
 Also see \fBDefaultStorageLoc\fR.
 
 .TP
@@ -1133,7 +1135,7 @@ Also see \fBDefaultStoragePort\fR.
 \fBJobCompType\fR
 The job completion logging mechanism type.
 Acceptable values at present include "jobcomp/none", "jobcomp/filetxt",
-"jobcomp/mysql", and "jobcomp/script"".
+"jobcomp/mysql", "jobcomp/elasticsearch" and "jobcomp/script"".
 The default value is "jobcomp/none", which means that upon job completion
 the record of the job is purged from the system.  If using the accounting
 infrastructure this plugin may not be of interest since the information
@@ -1146,7 +1148,9 @@ parameter.
 The value "jobcomp/script" indicates that a script specified by the
 \fBJobCompLoc\fR parameter is to be executed with environment variables
 indicating the job information.
-
+The value "jobcomp/elasticsearch" indicates that a record of the job
+should be written to an Elasticsearch server specified by the
+\fBJobCompLoc\fR parameter.
 .TP
 \fBJobCompUser\fR
 The user account for accessing the job completion database.