diff --git a/deploy-manage/monitor.md b/deploy-manage/monitor.md
index 4337aca48c..1b1a76bd2d 100644
--- a/deploy-manage/monitor.md
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@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ In addition to monitoring your cluster or deployment health and performance, you
 Learn how to enable monitoring of your orchestrator:
 
 * [ECK operator metrics](/deploy-manage/monitor/orchestrators/eck-metrics-configuration.md): Open and secure a metrics endpoint that can be used to monitor the operator’s performance and health. This endpoint can be scraped by third-party Kubernetes monitoring tools.
-* [ECK platform monitoring](/deploy-manage/monitor/orchestrators/ece-platform-monitoring.md): Learn about how ECE collects monitoring data for your installation in the `logging-and-metrics` deployment, and how to access monitoring data.
+* [ECE platform monitoring](/deploy-manage/monitor/orchestrators/ece-platform-monitoring.md): Learn about how ECE collects monitoring data for your installation in the `logging-and-metrics` deployment, and how to access monitoring data.
 
 :::{admonition} Monitoring {{ecloud}}
 Elastic monitors [{{ecloud}}](/deploy-manage/deploy/elastic-cloud.md) service metrics and performance as part of [our shared responsibility](https://www.elastic.co/cloud/shared-responsibility). We provide service availability information on our [service status page](/deploy-manage/cloud-organization/service-status.md).
diff --git a/deploy-manage/monitor/_snippets/stack-monitoring-def.md b/deploy-manage/monitor/_snippets/stack-monitoring-def.md
index 13b54e3318..e5da8aed3f 100644
--- a/deploy-manage/monitor/_snippets/stack-monitoring-def.md
+++ b/deploy-manage/monitor/_snippets/stack-monitoring-def.md
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 Stack monitoring allows you to collect logs and metrics from various Elastic products, including {{es}} nodes, {{ls}} nodes, {{kib}} instances, APM Server, and Beats in your cluster. You can also collect logs.
 
-All of the monitoring metrics are stored in {{es}}, which enables you to easily visualize the data in {{kib}}. 
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+All of the monitoring metrics are stored in {{es}}, which enables you to easily visualize the data in {{kib}}.
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diff --git a/deploy-manage/monitor/stack-monitoring/elasticsearch-monitoring-self-managed.md b/deploy-manage/monitor/stack-monitoring/elasticsearch-monitoring-self-managed.md
index 04755bb2a9..a107b84c5e 100644
--- a/deploy-manage/monitor/stack-monitoring/elasticsearch-monitoring-self-managed.md
+++ b/deploy-manage/monitor/stack-monitoring/elasticsearch-monitoring-self-managed.md
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ To use the {{monitor-features}} with the {{security-features}} enabled, you need
 
 You can collect monitoring and logging data in the following ways: 
 
-* [Collect monitoring data with Elastic Agent](/deploy-manage/monitor/stack-monitoring/collecting-monitoring-data-with-elastic-agent.md)
+* [Collect monitoring data with Elastic Agent](/deploy-manage/monitor/stack-monitoring/collecting-monitoring-data-with-elastic-agent.md) (recommended)
 * [Collect monitoring data with Metricbeat](/deploy-manage/monitor/stack-monitoring/collecting-monitoring-data-with-metricbeat.md)
 * [Collect log data with Filebeat](/deploy-manage/monitor/stack-monitoring/collecting-log-data-with-filebeat.md)