diff --git a/docs/streaming-programming-guide.md b/docs/streaming-programming-guide.md
index 939599aa6855b..0c125eb693a8e 100644
--- a/docs/streaming-programming-guide.md
+++ b/docs/streaming-programming-guide.md
@@ -522,9 +522,9 @@ common ones are as follows.
   <td> <b>reduceByKey</b>(<i>func</i>, [<i>numTasks</i>]) </td>
   <td> When called on a DStream of (K, V) pairs, return a new DStream of (K, V) pairs where the
   values for each key are aggregated using the given reduce function. <b>Note:</b> By default,
-  this uses Spark's default number of parallel tasks (2 for local machine, 8 for a cluster) to
-  do the grouping. You can pass an optional <code>numTasks</code> argument to set a different
-  number of tasks.</td>
+  this uses Spark's default number of parallel tasks (2 for local mode, and in cluster mode the number
+  is determined by the config property <code>spark.default.parallelism</code>) to do the grouping.
+  You can pass an optional <code>numTasks</code> argument to set a different number of tasks.</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
   <td> <b>join</b>(<i>otherStream</i>, [<i>numTasks</i>]) </td>
@@ -743,8 +743,9 @@ said two parameters - <i>windowLength</i> and <i>slideInterval</i>.
   <td> When called on a DStream of (K, V) pairs, returns a new DStream of (K, V)
   pairs where the values for each key are aggregated using the given reduce function <i>func</i>
   over batches in a sliding window. <b>Note:</b> By default, this uses Spark's default number of
-  parallel tasks (2 for local machine, 8 for a cluster) to do the grouping. You can pass an optional
-   <code>numTasks</code> argument to set a different number of tasks.
+  parallel tasks (2 for local mode, and in cluster mode the number is determined by the config
+  property <code>spark.default.parallelism</code>) to do the grouping. You can pass an optional
+  <code>numTasks</code> argument to set a different number of tasks.
   </td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
@@ -956,9 +957,10 @@ before further processing.
 ### Level of Parallelism in Data Processing
 Cluster resources maybe under-utilized if the number of parallel tasks used in any stage of the
 computation is not high enough. For example, for distributed reduce operations like `reduceByKey`
-and `reduceByKeyAndWindow`, the default number of parallel tasks is 8. You can pass the level of
-parallelism as an argument (see the
-[`PairDStreamFunctions`](api/scala/index.html#org.apache.spark.streaming.dstream.PairDStreamFunctions)
+and `reduceByKeyAndWindow`, the default number of parallel tasks is decided by the [config property]
+(configuration.html#spark-properties) `spark.default.parallelism`. You can pass the level of
+parallelism as an argument (see [`PairDStreamFunctions`]
+(api/scala/index.html#org.apache.spark.streaming.dstream.PairDStreamFunctions)
 documentation), or set the [config property](configuration.html#spark-properties)
 `spark.default.parallelism` to change the default.