diff --git a/docs/sources/developers/plugins/add-authentication-for-data-source-plugins.md b/docs/sources/developers/plugins/add-authentication-for-data-source-plugins.md
index d0c5c2c4a70..bb0b333e998 100644
--- a/docs/sources/developers/plugins/add-authentication-for-data-source-plugins.md
+++ b/docs/sources/developers/plugins/add-authentication-for-data-source-plugins.md
@@ -285,9 +285,9 @@ func (ds *dataSource) QueryData(ctx context.Context, req *backend.QueryDataReque
 
 If your data source uses the same OAuth provider as Grafana itself, for example using [Generic OAuth Authentication]({{< relref "../../auth/generic-oauth.md" >}}), your data source plugin can reuse the access token for the logged-in Grafana user.
 
-To allow Grafana to pass the access token to the plugin, the user needs to enable **Forward OAuth Identity** on the data source configuration page. This tells Grafana to pass the token to the plugin in a Authorization header. Note that your plugin needs to use the [DataSourceHttpSettings](https://developers.grafana.com/ui/latest/index.html?path=/story/data-source-datasourcehttpsettings--basic) component in the configuration editor to expose the setting for your data source plugin.
+To allow Grafana to pass the access token to the plugin, update the data source configuration and set the` jsonData.oauthPassThru` property to `true`. The [DataSourceHttpSettings](https://developers.grafana.com/ui/latest/index.html?path=/story/data-source-datasourcehttpsettings--basic) provides a toggle, the **Forward OAuth Identity** option, for this. You can also build an appropriate toggle to set `jsonData.oauthPassThru` in your data source configuration page UI.
 
-The Authorization header is available on the `DataQuery` object on the query data request in your backend data source.
+When configured, Grafana will pass the user's token to the plugin in an Authorization header, available on the `QueryDataRequest` object on the `QueryData` request in your backend data source.
 
 ```go
 func (ds *dataSource) QueryData(ctx context.Context, req *backend.QueryDataRequest) (*backend.QueryDataResponse, error) {