diff --git a/content/en/storage-providers/seal-workers/seal-workers.md b/content/en/storage-providers/seal-workers/seal-workers.md
index 94b9a2c3..c96d7308 100644
--- a/content/en/storage-providers/seal-workers/seal-workers.md
+++ b/content/en/storage-providers/seal-workers/seal-workers.md
@@ -74,6 +74,7 @@ export FIL_PROOFS_USE_GPU_COLUMN_BUILDER=1 # when GPU is available
 export FIL_PROOFS_USE_GPU_TREE_BUILDER=1   # when GPU is available
 export FIL_PROOFS_PARAMETER_CACHE=/fast/disk/folder # > 100GiB!
 export FIL_PROOFS_PARENT_CACHE=/fast/disk/folder2   # > 50GiB!
+export LOTUS_WORKER_NAME="Your-Worker-Name" # if not set, defaults to hostname
 
 # The following increases speed of PreCommit1 at the cost of using a full
 # CPU core-complex rather than a single core.
@@ -124,6 +125,8 @@ Worker 1, host othercomputer
         GPU: GeForce RTX 2080, not used
 ```
 
+If you want to give the `lotus-worker` a custom name, you can specify it at runtime with the `--name` option, or by exporting the `LOTUS_WORKER_NAME=Your-Name` enviroment variable. 
+
 ### Limit tasks run in parallel
 
 You can limit the amount of tasks run in parallel per task type with environment variables. The environment variable are formatted as `[short task type]_[sector size]_MAX_CONCURRENT=[limit]`.