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articles/partner-solutions/elastic/manage.md

@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
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-title: Manage settings for your Elastic resource via Azure portal
-description: Manage settings, view resources, reconfigure metrics/logs, and more for your Elastic resource via Azure portal.
+title: Manage settings for your Elastic resource in the Azure portal
+description: Manage settings, view resources, reconfigure metrics/logs, and more for your Elastic resource by using the Azure portal.
 ms.topic: how-to
-ms.date: 07/01/2025
-
+ms.date: 07/15/2025
+#customer intent: As an Azure developer, I want to use the Azure portal manage my Elastic resources that use search, log analytics, and security monitoring functions for Azure environments.
 
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-# Manage settings for your Elastic resource via Azure portal
+# Manage settings for your Elastic resource in the Azure portal
 
 This article shows how to manage the settings for Elastic resources.
 
@@ -49,13 +49,13 @@ Below the essentials, you can navigate to other details about your resource by s
 
 ## Reconfigure rules for metrics and logs
 
-When you created the Elastic resource, you configured which logs are sent to Elastic. If you need to change those settings, select **Metrics and Logs** in the left pane. 
+When you created the Elastic resource, you configured which logs are sent to Elastic. If you need to change those settings, in the left menu, select **Elastic deployment configuration** > **Logs & metrics**.
 
 Make the needed changes to how logs are sent to Elastic.
 
 ## View monitored resources
 
-To view the list of resources emitting logs to Elastic, select **Elastic deployment configuration > Monitored resources** in the service menu.
+To view the list of resources emitting logs to Elastic, select **Elastic deployment configuration** > **Monitored resources** in the service menu.
 
 > [!TIP]
 > You can filter the list of resources by type, subscription, resource group, region, and whether the resource is sending logs to Elastic. 
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ To view the list of resources emitting logs to Elastic, select **Elastic deploym
 
 To monitor multiple subscriptions:
 
-1. Select **Elastic deployment configuration > Monitored Subscriptions**.
+1. Select **Elastic deployment configuration** > **Monitored Subscriptions**.
 
 1. Select **Add subscriptions** from the Command bar.
 
@@ -77,15 +77,15 @@ To monitor multiple subscriptions:
 
     Diagnostics settings are automatically added to the subscription's resources that match the defined tag rules.
 
-    Select **Refresh**  to view the subscriptions and their monitoring status. 
+    Select **Refresh**  to view the subscriptions and their monitoring status.
 
-Once the subscription is added, the status changes to *Active*.  
+Once the subscription is added, the status changes to *Active*.
 
 ### Remove subscriptions
 
 To unlink subscriptions from an Elastic resource:
 
-1. Select **Elastic deployment configuration > Monitored Subscriptions** from the service menu. 
+1. Select **Elastic deployment configuration** > **Monitored Subscriptions** from the service menu. 
 
 1. Select the subscription you want to remove.
 
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ You can install Elastic agents on virtual machines.
 
 ### Virtual machines
 
-To monitor resources for virtual machines, select **Elastic deployment configuration > Virtual machine agent** in the service menu.
+To monitor resources for virtual machines, select **Elastic deployment configuration** > **Virtual machines** in the service menu.
 
 [!INCLUDE [install-elastic-agent](../includes/agent.md)]
 
@@ -117,30 +117,25 @@ Once the Connector is created, navigate to Kibana.
 
 > [!NOTE]
 > 
-> Kibana is a user interface that lets you visualize your Elasticsearch data and navigate the Elastic Stack. Your Connector can be used within Elastic's Observability AI Assistant to help provide contextual responses to your natural language prompts on your observability data by invoking the Azure OpenAI deployment.
-
-## Private link management
-
-You can limit network access to a private link.
+> Kibana is a user interface that lets you visualize your Elasticsearch data and navigate the Elastic Stack. Your Connector can be used in Elastic's Observability AI Assistant. It can provide contextual responses to your natural language prompts on your observability data by invoking the Azure OpenAI deployment.
 
-To enable private link access:
+## Traffic filters
 
-1. Select **Configuration** in the left navigation.
+1. In the left menu, select **Elastic deployment configuration** > **Traffic Filter**.
 
-1. Under **Networking**, select **Private Link** and the name of the private link.
+1. Enter a name for the filter.
 
-## Traffic filters
+1. Select a **Filter Type**: 
 
-To manage how Elastic deployments can be accessed, set Traffic filters for Azure Private Links.
+   - **IP Address and CIDR Blocks**
 
-There are two types of filters available:
+     Enter your **IP List**
 
-- IP traffic filter
-- Private Link traffic filter
+   - **Private Link**
 
-Select **Add** to set up and automatically associate a new traffic filter to an Elastic deployment.
+     Choose either **Select Existing** or **Add Manually** and then fill in the required fields.
 
-To associate an already existing traffic filter to the current deployment, you select **Link**. 
+1. Select **Create**
 
 > [!IMPORTANT]
 > The traffic filter must be in the same region as the deployment.
@@ -149,7 +144,7 @@ If a traffic filter is no longer needed, unlink it from deployment and then dele
 
 ## Connected Elastic resources
 
-To access all Elastic resources and deployments you created using the Azure or Elastic portal experience, go to the **Connected Elastic resources** tab in any of your Azure Elastic resources.
+To access all Elastic resources and deployments you created using the Azure or Elastic portal experience, go to the **Connected Elastic Resources** tab in any of your Azure Elastic resources.
 
 You can easily manage the corresponding Elastic deployments or Azure resources using the links, provided you have owner or contributor rights to those deployments and resources.
 
@@ -159,16 +154,14 @@ You can easily manage the corresponding Elastic deployments or Azure resources u
 
 > [!IMPORTANT]
 > 
-> - A single Azure Marketplace SaaS unifies billing for multiple Elastic deployments. 
-> - If you wish to completely stop billing for the marketplace SaaS, delete all linked Elastic deployments (created from Azure or Elastic portal). 
+> - A single Azure Marketplace SaaS unifies billing for multiple Elastic deployments.
+> - If you wish to completely stop billing for the marketplace SaaS, delete all linked Elastic deployments created from the Azure portal or Elastic portal.
 
 ## Get support
 
 Contact [Elastic](https://cloud.elastic.co/help) for customer support.
 
-You can also request support in the Azure portal from the [resource overview](#resource-overview).  
-
-Select **Support + Troubleshooting** > **New support request** from the service menu. 
+You can also request support in the Azure portal from the [resource overview](#resource-overview). From the left menu, select **Support + Troubleshooting** > **New support request**.
 
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