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diff --git a/get-started/_snippets/observability-overview.md b/get-started/_snippets/observability-overview.md
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ Apply {{observability}} to various scenarios to improve operational awareness an
 
 :::{dropdown} Use cases
 :open:
-* **[Log monitoring and analytics](/solutions/observability/logs.md):** Centralize and analyze petabytes of log data from any source. This enables quick searching, ad-hoc queries with ES|QL, and visualization with prebuilt dashboards to diagnose issues.
+* **[Log monitoring and analytics](/solutions/observability/logs.md):** Centralize and analyze petabytes of log data from any source. This enables quick searching, querying with ES|QL if needed, and visualization with prebuilt dashboards to diagnose issues.
 * **[Application Performance Monitoring (APM)](/solutions/observability/applications/index.md):** Gain code-level visibility into application performance. By collecting and analyzing traces with native OTel support, teams can identify bottlenecks, track errors, and optimize the end-user experience.
 * **[Infrastructure monitoring](/solutions/observability/infra-and-hosts.md):** Monitor metrics from servers, virtual machines, containers, and serverless environments with over 400 out-of-the-box integrations, including OpenTelemetry. This provides deep insights into resource utilization and overall system health.
 * **[AI-powered log analysis with Streams](/solutions/observability/streams/streams.md):** Ingest raw logs in any format directly to a single endpoint without the need for complex agent management or manual parsing pipelines. Streams leverages AI to automatically parse, structure, and analyze log data on the fly.
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ At the heart of Elastic {{observability}} are several key components that enable
   * [**Logs:**](/solutions/observability/logs.md) Timestamped records of events that provide detailed, contextual information.
   * [**Metrics:**](/solutions/observability/infra-and-hosts/analyze-infrastructure-host-metrics.md) Numerical measurements of system performance and health over time.
   * [**Traces:**](/solutions/observability/apm/traces.md) Representations of end-to-end journeys of requests as they travel through distributed systems.
-* [**OpenTelemetry:**](/solutions/observability/apm/opentelemetry/index.md) {{Observability}} offers first-class, production-grade support for OpenTelemetry. This allows organizations to use vendor-neutral instrumentation and stream native OTel data without proprietary agents, leveraging the {{edot}} (EDOT).
+* [**OpenTelemetry:**](/solutions/observability/apm/opentelemetry/index.md) {{Observability}} offers top-level, production-grade support for OpenTelemetry. This allows organizations to use vendor-neutral instrumentation and stream native OTel data without proprietary agents, leveraging the {{edot}} (EDOT).
 * [**AIOps and AI Assistant:**](/solutions/observability/observability-ai-assistant.md) Leverages predictive analytics and an LLM-powered AI Assistant to reduce the time required to detect, investigate, and resolve incidents. This includes zero-config {{anomaly-detect}}, pattern analysis, and the ability to surface correlations and root causes.
 * **[Alerting](/solutions/observability/incident-management/alerting.md)**: Allows you to create  rules to detect complex conditions and perform actions. 
 * **[Cases](/solutions/observability/incident-management/cases.md):** Cases allows teams to stay aware of potential issues and track investigation details, assign tasks, and collaborate on resolutions.
diff --git a/get-started/_snippets/security-overview.md b/get-started/_snippets/security-overview.md
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ Use {{elastic-sec}} to protect your systems from security threats.
 * [**AI-powered features**](/solutions/security/ai.md): Leverage generative AI to help enhance threat detection, assist with incident response, and improve day-to-day security operations.
 * [**Custom dashboards and visualizations**](/solutions/security/dashboards.md): Create custom dashboards and visualizations to gain insights into security events.
 * [**Cloud Security**](/solutions/security/cloud.md): {{elastic-sec}} provides the following cloud features:
-  * **Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) and Kubernetes Security Posture Management (KSPM):** Check cloud service configurations against security benchmarks to identify and resolve misconfigurations that can be exploited.
+  * **Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) and Kubernetes Security Posture Management (KSPM):** Check cloud service configurations against security benchmarks to identify and resolve misconfigurations that attackers can exploit.
   * **Cloud Workload Protection:** Get visibility and runtime protection for cloud workloads.
   * **Vulnerability Management:** Uncover vulnerabilities within your cloud infrastructure.
 :::
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ Before diving into setup and configuration, familiarize yourself with the founda
 * [**{{elastic-endpoint}}:**](/solutions/security/manage-elastic-defend/elastic-endpoint-self-protection-features.md) The security component, enabled by {{agent}}, that performs {{elastic-defend}}'s threat monitoring and prevention capabilities. 
 * [**Detection engine:**](/solutions/security/detect-and-alert.md) The framework that detects threats by using rules to search for suspicious events in your data, and generates alerts when events meet a rule's criteria.
 * [**Detection rules:**](/solutions/security/detect-and-alert/about-detection-rules.md) Sets of conditions that identify potential threats and malicious activities. Rules analyze various data sources, including logs and network traffic, to detect anomalies, suspicious behaviors, or known attack patterns. {{elastic-sec}} ships out-of-the-box prebuilt rules, and you can create your own custom rules. 
-* [**Alerts:**](/solutions/security/detect-and-alert/manage-detection-alerts.md) Notifications that are generated when rule conditions are met. Alerts include a wide range of information about potential threats, including host, user, network, and other contextual data to assist your investigation.  
+* [**Alerts:**](/solutions/security/detect-and-alert/manage-detection-alerts.md) Notifications that the system generates when rule conditions match. Alerts include a wide range of information about potential threats, including host, user, network, and other contextual data to assist your investigation.  
 * [**Machine learning and anomaly detection:**](/solutions/security/advanced-entity-analytics/anomaly-detection.md) Anomaly detection jobs identify anomalous events or patterns in your data. Use these with machine learning detection rules to generate alerts when behavior deviates from normal activity.
 * [**Entity analytics:**](/solutions/security/advanced-entity-analytics/overview.md) A threat detection feature that combines the power of Elastic’s detection engine and machine learning capabilities to identify unusual behavior for hosts, users, and services. 
 * [**Cases:**](/solutions/security/investigate/cases.md) Allows you to collect and share information about security issues. Opening a case lets you track key investigation details and collect alerts in a central location. You can also send cases to external systems.
diff --git a/get-started/deployment-options.md b/get-started/deployment-options.md
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ Use this page for a quick overview of your options for deploying Elastic.
 
 Your deployment type significantly impacts the capabilities available across your Elastic environment and the amount of manual work required to set up and maintain it. Some deployment types provide automated orchestration that handles scaling, upgrades, and monitoring across multiple clusters, while others require you to manage these operational tasks manually. 
 
-The choice you make determines how much time you'll spend on infrastructure management versus focusing on using Elastic's features to solve your business problems.
+The choice you make determines how much time you spend on infrastructure management versus focusing on using Elastic's features to solve your business problems.
 
 ## Quick start options
 
diff --git a/get-started/howto-use-the-docs.md b/get-started/howto-use-the-docs.md
@@ -24,23 +24,23 @@ Here is a detailed breakdown of the documentation structure:
 
 Because you can deploy Elastic products in different ways (like on {{ecloud}} or in your own data center) and have different versions, not all documentation applies to every user. To help you quickly see if a topic is relevant to your situation, we use **applicability badges**.
 
-These badges appear at the top of a page or section and tell you which products, deployment models, and versions the content applies to. They also indicate the maturity level of a feature, such as **beta**, **technical preview**, or **generally available (GA)**. This system ensures that you can identify content specific to your environment and version.
+These badges appear at the top of a page or section and tell you which products, deployment models, and versions the content applies to. They also indicate the maturity level of a feature, such as **beta**, **technical preview**, or **generally available (GA)**. This system ensures that you can refer to content specific to your environment and version.
 
 :::{tip}
-A **Stack** badge indicates that a page applies to [{{stack}}](/get-started/the-stack.md) components across all deployment options except {{serverless-full}}. If a page applies to all deployment options, it will have **{{serverless-short}}** and Stack badges.
+A **Stack** badge indicates that a page applies to [{{stack}}](/get-started/the-stack.md) components across all deployment options except {{serverless-full}}. If a page applies to all deployment options, it has **{{serverless-short}}** and Stack badges.
 :::
 
 ## Page options
 
-On each documentation page, you'll find several links that allow you to interact with the content:
+On each documentation page, you find several links that allow you to interact with the content:
 
 * **View as Markdown**: This link shows you the raw Markdown source code for the page you're viewing. This can be helpful if you want to reuse the source or feed the document to AI.  
-* **Edit this page**: Selecting this link will take you directly to the page's source file in its GitHub repository. From there, you can propose edits, which our team will review.  
-* **Report an issue**: If you've found a problem, like a typo, a technical error, or confusing content, but don't want to edit the page yourself, use this link. It will open a new issue in our GitHub repository, pre-filled with information about the page you were on, so you can describe the problem in detail.
+* **Edit this page**: Selecting this link takes you directly to the page's source file in its GitHub repository. From there, you can propose edits, which our team reviews.  
+* **Report an issue**: If you've found a problem, like a typo, a technical error, or confusing content, but don't want to edit the page yourself, use this link. It opens a new issue in our GitHub repository, pre-filled with information about the page you were on, so you can describe the problem in detail.
 
 ## Versioned documentation
 
-Starting with Elastic Stack 9.0, Elastic no longer publishes separate documentation sets for each minor release. Instead, all changes in the 9.x series are included in a single, continuously updated documentation set.
+Starting with Elastic Stack 9.0, Elastic no longer publishes separate documentation sets for each minor release. Instead, all changes in the 9.x series appear in a single, continuously updated documentation set.
 
 This approach helps:
 
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ This means the feature is:
 * Introduced in version 9.1.0
 
 :::{tip}
-If a page applies to all deployment options including {{serverless-full}}, it will have both {{serverless-short}} and Stack badges.
+If a page applies to all deployment options including {{serverless-full}}, it has both {{serverless-short}} and Stack badges.
 :::
 
 ### Serverless example
@@ -82,14 +82,14 @@ This means the feature is:
 * Deprecated starting in version 4.1.0
 
 :::{tip}
-Want to learn more about how availability badges are used? Check the [Elastic Docs syntax guide](https://elastic.github.io/docs-builder/syntax/applies/).
+Want to learn more about how we use availability badges? Check the [Elastic Docs syntax guide](https://elastic.github.io/docs-builder/syntax/applies/).
 :::
 
 ## Accessing previous versions
 
 You can browse documentation for different versions of our products in two ways:
 
-* **Version menu:** On most documentation pages, you'll find a version menu. Clicking this menu allows you to switch to a different version of the documentation for the content you are currently viewing.  
+* **Version menu:** On most documentation pages, you find a version menu. Clicking this menu allows you to switch to a different version of the documentation for the content you are currently viewing.  
 * **All documentation versions page:** For a complete list of all available documentation versions for all Elastic products, you can visit the [All documentation versions](/versions.md) page.
 
 ## Glossary
diff --git a/get-started/index.md b/get-started/index.md
@@ -19,11 +19,11 @@ description: Learn the fundamentals of Elastic. Discover what Elastic offers, ex
 
 # Elastic fundamentals
 
-Welcome to Elastic fundamentals!
+Welcome to Elastic fundamentals.
 
-In this section, we'll walk you through the basics of what our products offer, what they do, how they can help your business, and how to set them up. You'll get a quick look at the core features and concepts, real-world use cases, and deployment options to understand how everything fits together. 
+In this section, we walk you through the basics of what our products offer, what they do, how they can help your business, and how to set them up. You get a quick look at the core features and concepts, real-world use cases, and deployment options to understand how everything fits together. 
 
-You'll also find other helpful information, such as how to use our docs, training resources, and a link to our glossary so you can familiarize yourself with our terminology. Whether you're exercising your options and are curious about what Elastic can offer, are just getting started, or are looking to dive deeper, this is a great place to begin.
+You also find other helpful information, such as how to use our docs, training resources, and a link to our glossary so you can familiarize yourself with our terminology. Whether you're exercising your options and are curious about what Elastic can offer, are getting started, or are looking to dive deeper, this is a great place to begin.
 
 ## What is Elastic? [what-is-es]
 
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ Elastic provides an open source search, analytics, and AI platform, and out-of-t
 
 ## Explore the fundamentals
 
-Continue your journey with these essential guides that will help you understand and work with Elastic:
+Continue your journey with these essential guides that help you understand and work with Elastic:
 
 * **[](/get-started/introduction.md)**: Get an introduction to the {{es}}, Elastic {{observability}}, and {{elastic-sec}} solutions and projects.
 
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ Continue your journey with these essential guides that will help you understand
 
 ## Training resources
 
-Whether you are just getting started with Elastic, an expert, or simply want to expand your knowledge, we provide role-based and solution-based training to empower you to get the most out of our solutions. You can even receive accreditation for completing our courses. 
+Whether you are getting started with Elastic, an expert, or want to efficiently expand your knowledge, we provide role-based and solution-based training to empower you to get the most out of our solutions. You can even receive accreditation for completing our courses. 
 
 Ready to dive in? Check out [https://www.elastic.co/training](https://www.elastic.co/training) to browse our virtual and on-demand training courses. If you're unsure where to start, check out the [Elasticsearch Engineer](https://www.elastic.co/training/elasticsearch-engineer) course. 
 
@@ -60,4 +60,4 @@ Check out these additional resources to learn and explore other areas of Elastic
 
 * **[Deploy and manage](/deploy-manage/index.md)**: Learn how to deploy and manage all aspects of your Elastic environment.
 * **[Manage data](/manage-data/index.md)**: Learn how to ingest and manage data stored in {{es}}. 
-* **[How to use the documentation](/get-started/howto-use-the-docs.md)**: Understand how our documentation is organized, find the right version information for your products, and learn how to contribute.
+* **[How to use the documentation](/get-started/howto-use-the-docs.md)**: Understand how we organize our documentation, find the right version information for your products, and learn how to contribute.
diff --git a/get-started/introduction.md b/get-started/introduction.md
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ Whether you're building a search experience, monitoring your infrastructure, or
 | Monitor data for anomalous activity, detect, prevent, and respond to security incidents | [{{elastic-sec}}](/solutions/security.md)<br>• [Get started](/solutions/security/get-started.md)| SOC teams, security analysts, IT security admins |
 
 :::{tip}
-Check out our [customer success stories](https://www.elastic.co/customers/success-stories) to learn how various organizations utilize our products for their specific business needs.
+Check out our [customer success stories](https://www.elastic.co/customers/success-stories) to learn how various organizations use our products for their specific business needs.
 :::
 
 Each of our solutions is available as a fully managed {{serverless-short}} project, a managed service on {{ech}}, or a self-managed deployment. Refer to [deployment options](../get-started/deployment-options.md) to learn about these options.
diff --git a/get-started/the-stack.md b/get-started/the-stack.md
@@ -20,9 +20,9 @@ $$$kibana-navigation-search$$$
 
 ## An overview of the {{stack}} [stack-components]
 
-What is the {{stack}}? It’s a fast and highly scalable set of components — {{es}}, {{kib}}, {{beats}}, {{ls}}, and others — that together enable you to securely take data from any source, in any format, and then search, analyze, and visualize it.
+What is the {{stack}}? It's a fast and highly scalable set of components—{{es}}, {{kib}}, {{beats}}, {{ls}}, and others—that together enable you to securely take data from any source, in any format, and then search, analyze, and visualize it.
 
-The products in the {{es}} are designed to be used together and releases are synchronized to simplify the installation and upgrade process.
+The products in the {{es}} are designed to work together. We synchronize their releases to simplify the installation and upgrades.
 
 You have many options for deploying the {{stack}} to suit your needs. You can deploy it on your own hardware, in the cloud, or use a managed service on {{ecloud}}.
 
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ Trying to decide which ingest component to use? Refer to [Adding data to {{es}}]
 
 #### APM [stack-components-apm]
 
-Elastic APM is an application performance monitoring system built on the {{stack}}. It allows you to monitor software services and applications in real-time, by collecting detailed performance information on response time for incoming requests, database queries, calls to caches, external HTTP requests, and more. This makes it easy to pinpoint and fix performance problems quickly. [Learn more about APM](/solutions/observability/apm/index.md).
+Elastic APM is an application performance monitoring system built on the {{stack}}. It allows you to monitor software services and applications in real-time, by collecting detailed performance information on response time for incoming requests, database queries, calls to caches, external HTTP requests, and more. This makes it efficient to pinpoint and fix performance problems quickly. [Learn more about APM](/solutions/observability/apm/index.md).
 
 #### {{beats}} [stack-components-beats]
 
diff --git a/get-started/versioning-availability.md b/get-started/versioning-availability.md
