diff --git a/pkg/services/alerting/notifiers/slack.go b/pkg/services/alerting/notifiers/slack.go
index a8139b62726..c1dadba414d 100644
--- a/pkg/services/alerting/notifiers/slack.go
+++ b/pkg/services/alerting/notifiers/slack.go
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ func init() {
           data-placement="right">
         </input>
         <info-popover mode="right-absolute">
-          Provide a bot token to use the Slack file.upload API (starts with "xoxb")
+          Provide a bot token to use the Slack file.upload API (starts with "xoxb"). Specify #channel-name or @username in Recipient for this to work 
         </info-popover>
       </div>
     `,