diff --git a/doc/ci/interactive_web_terminal/index.md b/doc/ci/interactive_web_terminal/index.md
index 4c90a4e06db970a7b039c4368c9357c4af69e5d7..312b4a0553b51cc7d3bc1fdd2efb188ff0e12122 100644
--- a/doc/ci/interactive_web_terminal/index.md
+++ b/doc/ci/interactive_web_terminal/index.md
@@ -10,7 +10,8 @@ type: reference
 > [Introduced](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-foss/-/issues/50144) in GitLab 11.3.
 
 Interactive web terminals give the user access to a terminal in GitLab for
-running one-off commands for their CI pipeline, enabling debugging with SSH. Since this is giving the user
+running one-off commands for their CI pipeline. You can think of it like a method for
+debugging with SSH, but done directly from the job page. Since this is giving the user
 shell access to the environment where [GitLab Runner](https://docs.gitlab.com/runner/)
 is deployed, some [security precautions](../../administration/integration/terminal.md#security) were
 taken to protect the users.