diff --git a/docs/platforms/python/integrations/asyncio/index.mdx b/docs/platforms/python/integrations/asyncio/index.mdx
index ccc577b62e5e3..4df20143d69d1 100644
--- a/docs/platforms/python/integrations/asyncio/index.mdx
+++ b/docs/platforms/python/integrations/asyncio/index.mdx
@@ -13,12 +13,13 @@ pip install --upgrade 'sentry-sdk'
## Configure
-Add `AsyncioIntegration()` to your list of `integrations`, enable tracing and be sure to call `sentry_sdk.init()` at the beginning of your async loop:
+Add `AsyncioIntegration()` to your list of `integrations`, enable tracing and be sure to call `sentry_sdk.init()` **at the beginning of the first `async` function you call**, as shown in the example below.
+
-In addition to capturing errors, you can monitor interactions between multiple services or applications by [enabling tracing](/concepts/key-terms/tracing/). You can also collect and analyze performance profiles from real users with [profiling](/product/explore/profiling/).
+If you call `sentry_sdk.init()` outside of an `async` function in an async application, the SDK will not behave as expected.
-Select which Sentry features you'd like to install in addition to Error Monitoring to get the corresponding installation and configuration instructions below.
+