diff --git a/DependencyInjection/Configuration.php b/DependencyInjection/Configuration.php
index cafd3d0..3c943c3 100644
--- a/DependencyInjection/Configuration.php
+++ b/DependencyInjection/Configuration.php
@@ -23,6 +23,10 @@ class Configuration implements ConfigurationInterface
             ->root('nelmio_api_doc')
             ->children()
                 ->scalarNode('name')->defaultValue('API documentation')->end()
+                ->arrayNode('exclude_sections')
+                    ->prototype('scalar')
+                    ->end()
+                ->end()
                 ->arrayNode('motd')
                     ->addDefaultsIfNotSet()
                     ->children()
diff --git a/DependencyInjection/NelmioApiDocExtension.php b/DependencyInjection/NelmioApiDocExtension.php
index be2e5b8..3406f25 100644
--- a/DependencyInjection/NelmioApiDocExtension.php
+++ b/DependencyInjection/NelmioApiDocExtension.php
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ class NelmioApiDocExtension extends Extension
         $config = $processor->processConfiguration($configuration, $configs);
 
         $container->setParameter('nelmio_api_doc.motd.template', $config['motd']['template']);
+        $container->setParameter('nelmio_api_doc.exclude_sections', $config['exclude_sections']);
         $container->setParameter('nelmio_api_doc.api_name', $config['name']);
         $container->setParameter('nelmio_api_doc.sandbox.enabled',  $config['sandbox']['enabled']);
         $container->setParameter('nelmio_api_doc.sandbox.endpoint', $config['sandbox']['endpoint']);
diff --git a/Extractor/ApiDocExtractor.php b/Extractor/ApiDocExtractor.php
index 993e2ba..6f051a8 100644
--- a/Extractor/ApiDocExtractor.php
+++ b/Extractor/ApiDocExtractor.php
@@ -100,6 +100,7 @@ class ApiDocExtractor
     {
         $array     = array();
         $resources = array();
+        $excludeSections = $this->container->getParameter('nelmio_api_doc.exclude_sections');
 
         foreach ($routes as $route) {
             if (!$route instanceof Route) {
@@ -107,7 +108,8 @@ class ApiDocExtractor
             }
 
             if ($method = $this->getReflectionMethod($route->getDefault('_controller'))) {
-                if ($annotation = $this->reader->getMethodAnnotation($method, self::ANNOTATION_CLASS)) {
+                $annotation = $this->reader->getMethodAnnotation($method, self::ANNOTATION_CLASS);
+                if ($annotation && !in_array($annotation->getSection(), $excludeSections)) {
                     if ($annotation->isResource()) {
                         if ($resource = $annotation->getResource()) {
                             $resources[] = $resource;
diff --git a/Resources/doc/index.md b/Resources/doc/index.md
index 0483079..637c515 100644
--- a/Resources/doc/index.md
+++ b/Resources/doc/index.md
@@ -355,6 +355,12 @@ You can specify your own API name:
     nelmio_api_doc:
         name: My API
 
+You can specify which sections to exclude from the documentation generation:
+
+    # app/config/config.yml
+    nelmio_api_doc:
+        exclude_sections: ["privateapi", "testapi"]
+
 The bundle provides a way to register multiple `input` parsers. The first parser
 that can handle the specified input is used, so you can configure their
 priorities via container tags. Here's an example parser service registration:
@@ -396,6 +402,7 @@ Look at the built-in [Handlers](https://github.com/nelmio/NelmioApiDocBundle/tre
 ``` yaml
 nelmio_api_doc:
     name:                     API documentation
+    exclude_sections:         []
     motd:
         template:             NelmioApiDocBundle::Components/motd.html.twig
     request_listener:
diff --git a/Tests/Fixtures/Controller/TestController.php b/Tests/Fixtures/Controller/TestController.php
index 1c0a266..5d9d3f3 100644
--- a/Tests/Fixtures/Controller/TestController.php
+++ b/Tests/Fixtures/Controller/TestController.php
@@ -261,4 +261,22 @@ class TestController
     public function zReturnSelectedParsersOutputAction()
     {
     }
+
+    /**
+     * @ApiDoc(
+     *     section="private"
+     * )
+     */
+    public function privateAction()
+    {
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @ApiDoc(
+     *     section="exclusive"
+     * )
+     */
+    public function exclusiveAction()
+    {
+    }
 }
diff --git a/Tests/Fixtures/app/config/default.yml b/Tests/Fixtures/app/config/default.yml
index 6d596bc..c7edc26 100644
--- a/Tests/Fixtures/app/config/default.yml
+++ b/Tests/Fixtures/app/config/default.yml
@@ -51,3 +51,6 @@ jms_serializer:
         # class: My\FooBundle\Entity\User
         # expected path: @MyFooBundle/Resources/config/serializer/Entity.User.(yml|xml|php)
         auto_detection: true
+
+nelmio_api_doc:
+    exclude_sections: ["private", "exclusive"]
diff --git a/Tests/Fixtures/app/config/routing.yml b/Tests/Fixtures/app/config/routing.yml
index 62be809..370ae0d 100644
--- a/Tests/Fixtures/app/config/routing.yml
+++ b/Tests/Fixtures/app/config/routing.yml
@@ -141,3 +141,11 @@ test_route_19:
 test_route_20:
     pattern: /z-return-selected-parsers-input
     defaults: { _controller: NelmioApiDocTestBundle:Test:zReturnSelectedParsersInput }
+
+test_route_private:
+    pattern: /private
+    defaults: { _controller: NelmioApiDocTestBundle:Test:private }
+
+test_route_exclusive:
+    pattern: /exclusive
+    defaults: { _controller: NelmioApiDocTestBundle:Test:exclusive }
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