diff --git a/src/Symfony/Component/HttpKernel/EventListener/DumpListener.php b/src/Symfony/Component/HttpKernel/EventListener/DumpListener.php
index 3acbe7d46c86..1b5e8084fdc3 100644
--- a/src/Symfony/Component/HttpKernel/EventListener/DumpListener.php
+++ b/src/Symfony/Component/HttpKernel/EventListener/DumpListener.php
@@ -14,6 +14,8 @@
 use Symfony\Component\Console\ConsoleEvents;
 use Symfony\Component\EventDispatcher\EventSubscriberInterface;
 use Symfony\Component\VarDumper\Cloner\ClonerInterface;
+use Symfony\Component\VarDumper\Dumper\CliDumper;
+use Symfony\Component\VarDumper\Dumper\ContextProvider\SourceContextProvider;
 use Symfony\Component\VarDumper\Dumper\DataDumperInterface;
 use Symfony\Component\VarDumper\Server\Connection;
 use Symfony\Component\VarDumper\VarDumper;
@@ -46,6 +48,20 @@ public function configure()
             $data = $cloner->cloneVar($var);
 
             if (!$connection || !$connection->write($data)) {
+                list('name' => $name, 'file' => $file, 'line' => $line) = (new SourceContextProvider())->getContext();
+                if (\is_string($file)) {
+                    $name = $file;
+                }
+
+                if ($dumper instanceof CliDumper) {
+                    (function (string $name, int $line) {
+                        $this->line = $this->style('meta', $name).' on line '.$this->style('meta', $line).':';
+                        $this->dumpLine(0);
+                    })->bindTo($dumper, $dumper)($name, $line);
+                } else {
+                    $dumper->dump($cloner->cloneVar($name.' on line '.$line.':'));
+                }
+
                 $dumper->dump($data);
             }
         });
diff --git a/src/Symfony/Component/HttpKernel/Tests/EventListener/DumpListenerTest.php b/src/Symfony/Component/HttpKernel/Tests/EventListener/DumpListenerTest.php
index 509f443087eb..d384c50bd036 100644
--- a/src/Symfony/Component/HttpKernel/Tests/EventListener/DumpListenerTest.php
+++ b/src/Symfony/Component/HttpKernel/Tests/EventListener/DumpListenerTest.php
@@ -51,8 +51,7 @@ public function testConfigure()
 
             VarDumper::dump('foo');
             VarDumper::dump('bar');
-
-            $this->assertSame('+foo-+bar-', ob_get_clean());
+            $this->assertSame('+'.__FILE__.' on line '.(__LINE__ - 2).':-+foo-+'.__FILE__.' on line '.(__LINE__ - 1).':-+bar-', ob_get_clean());
         } catch (\Exception $exception) {
         }
 
diff --git a/src/Symfony/Component/VarDumper/VarDumper.php b/src/Symfony/Component/VarDumper/VarDumper.php
index ff0cc948e22f..c0fbac98facc 100644
--- a/src/Symfony/Component/VarDumper/VarDumper.php
+++ b/src/Symfony/Component/VarDumper/VarDumper.php
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
 
 use Symfony\Component\VarDumper\Cloner\VarCloner;
 use Symfony\Component\VarDumper\Dumper\CliDumper;
+use Symfony\Component\VarDumper\Dumper\ContextProvider\SourceContextProvider;
 use Symfony\Component\VarDumper\Dumper\HtmlDumper;
 
 // Load the global dump() function
@@ -37,6 +38,26 @@ public static function dump($var)
             }
 
             self::$handler = function ($var) use ($cloner, $dumper) {
+                (function () {
+                    list('name' => $name, 'file' => $file, 'line' => $line) = (new SourceContextProvider())->getContext();
+
+                    $attr = array();
+                    if ($this instanceof HtmlDumper) {
+                        if (\is_string($file)) {
+                            $attr = array(
+                              'file' => $file,
+                              'line' => $line,
+                              'title' => $file,
+                            );
+                        }
+                    } else {
+                        $name = $file;
+                    }
+
+                    $this->line = $this->style('meta', $name, $attr).' on line '.$this->style('meta', $line).':';
+                    $this->dumpLine(0);
+                })->bindTo($dumper, $dumper)();
+
                 $dumper->dump($cloner->cloneVar($var));
             };
         }