diff --git a/doc/source/guides/single-vm.rst b/doc/source/guides/single-vm.rst
index c2ce1a34a0..515cd505c3 100644
--- a/doc/source/guides/single-vm.rst
+++ b/doc/source/guides/single-vm.rst
@@ -78,6 +78,11 @@ passed as the user-data file when booting the VM.
 As DevStack will refuse to run as root, this configures ``cloud-init``
 to create a non-root user and run the ``start.sh`` script as that user.
 
+If you are using cloud-init and you have not
+`enabled custom logging <../configuration.html#enable-logging>`_ of the stack
+output, then the stack output can be found in
+``/var/log/cloud-init-output.log`` by default.
+
 Launching By Hand
 -----------------