diff --git a/components/var_dumper.rst b/components/var_dumper.rst
index f8f279929c5..f11d6401a3e 100644
--- a/components/var_dumper.rst
+++ b/components/var_dumper.rst
@@ -91,6 +91,8 @@ current PHP SAPI:
     .. versionadded:: 4.1
         The ``dd()`` helper method was introduced in Symfony 4.1.
 
+.. _var-dumper-dump-server:
+
 The Dump Server
 ---------------
 
@@ -117,22 +119,72 @@ server, which outputs it to its own console or to an HTML file:
 
 Inside a Symfony application, the output of the dump server is configured with
 the :ref:`dump_destination option <configuration-debug-dump_destination>` of the
-``debug`` package.
+``debug`` package:
+
+.. configuration-block::
+
+    .. code-block:: yaml
+
+        # config/packages/debug.yaml
+        debug:
+           dump_destination: "tcp://%env(VAR_DUMPER_SERVER)%"
+
+    .. code-block:: xml
 
-Outside a Symfony application, use the ``ServerDumper`` class::
+        <!-- config/packages/debug.xml -->
+        <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
+        <container xmlns="http://symfony.com/schema/dic/debug"
+            xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+            xmlns:debug="http://symfony.com/schema/dic/debug"
+            xsi:schemaLocation="http://symfony.com/schema/dic/services
+                http://symfony.com/schema/dic/services/services-1.0.xsd
+                http://symfony.com/schema/dic/debug http://symfony.com/schema/dic/debug/debug-1.0.xsd">
+
+            <debug:config dump-destination="tcp://%env(VAR_DUMPER_SERVER)%" />
+        </container>
+
+    .. code-block:: php
+
+        // config/packages/debug.php
+        $container->loadFromExtension('debug', array(
+           'dump_destination' => 'tcp://%env(VAR_DUMPER_SERVER)%',
+        ));
+
+Outside a Symfony application, use the :class:`Symfony\\Component\\VarDumper\\Dumper\\ServerDumper` class::
 
     require __DIR__.'/vendor/autoload.php';
     
     use Symfony\Component\VarDumper\VarDumper;
     use Symfony\Component\VarDumper\Cloner\VarCloner;
     use Symfony\Component\VarDumper\Dumper\ServerDumper;
-    
-    VarDumper::setHandler(function ($var) {
-      $cloner = new VarCloner();
-      $dumper = new ServerDumper('tcp://127.0.0.1:9912');     
-      $dumper->dump($cloner->cloneVar($var));
+
+    $cloner = new VarCloner();
+    $fallbackDumper = \in_array(\PHP_SAPI, array('cli', 'phpdbg')) ? new CliDumper() : new HtmlDumper();
+    $dumper = new ServerDumper('tcp://127.0.0.1:9912', $fallbackDumper, [
+        'cli' => new CliContextProvider(),
+        'source' => new SourceContextProvider(),
+    ]);
+
+    VarDumper::setHandler(function ($var) use ($cloner, $dumper) {
+        $dumper->dump($cloner->cloneVar($var));
     });
 
+
+.. note::
+
+    The :class:`Symfony\\Component\\VarDumper\\Dumper\\ServerDumper` accepts as second argument
+    a :class:`Symfony\\Component\\VarDumper\\Dumper\\DataDumperInterface` instance
+    as a fallback for whenever the server is unreachable and context providers as third argument.
+    These providers allow to gather some info about the context in which was dumped the data.
+    Built-in contexts providers are: ``cli``, ``request`` and ``source``.
+
+Then you can use the following command to start a server out-of-the-box:
+
+.. code-block:: terminal
+
+     $ ./vendor/bin/var-dump-server
+       [OK] Server listening on tcp://127.0.0.1:9912
+
 DebugBundle and Twig Integration
 --------------------------------
 
diff --git a/reference/configuration/debug.rst b/reference/configuration/debug.rst
index eb0931cd887..bed09590add 100644
--- a/reference/configuration/debug.rst
+++ b/reference/configuration/debug.rst
@@ -99,3 +99,5 @@ destination for dumps. Typically, you would set this to ``php://stderr``:
         $container->loadFromExtension('debug', array(
            'dump_destination' => 'php://stderr',
         ));
+
+Configure it to ``"tcp://%env(VAR_DUMPER_SERVER)%"`` in order to use the :ref:`ServerDumper feature <var-dumper-dump-server>`.