diff --git a/components/src/dynamo/vllm/args.py b/components/src/dynamo/vllm/args.py
index 4c0d0a0988..f3b9f7a574 100644
--- a/components/src/dynamo/vllm/args.py
+++ b/components/src/dynamo/vllm/args.py
@@ -198,6 +198,13 @@ def parse_args() -> Config:
     args = parser.parse_args()
     engine_args = AsyncEngineArgs.from_cli_args(args)
 
+    if hasattr(engine_args, "stream_interval") and engine_args.stream_interval != 1:
+        logger.warning(
+            "--stream-interval is currently not respected in Dynamo. "
+            "Dynamo uses its own post-processing implementation on the frontend, "
+            "bypassing vLLM's OutputProcessor buffering. "
+        )
+
     if engine_args.enable_prefix_caching is None:
         logger.debug(
             "--enable-prefix-caching or --no-enable-prefix-caching not specified. Defaulting to True (vLLM v1 default behavior)"