From 9ae4c141450e5e2278ec75be09617010c89423bd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Buildkite CI <docs-status+buildkite@elastic.co>
Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2025 08:08:42 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Updated docs

---
 html/branches.yaml                            | 10 ++---
 .../current/ec-enable-enterprise-search.html  | 40 +++++++++++++++++--
 .../latest/ec-enable-enterprise-search.html   | 40 +++++++++++++++++--
 html/sitemap.xml                              |  2 +-
 .../current/ec-enable-enterprise-search.html  | 40 +++++++++++++++++--
 .../latest/ec-enable-enterprise-search.html   | 40 +++++++++++++++++--
 6 files changed, 154 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/html/branches.yaml b/html/branches.yaml
index ff6fe39dd9a26c..fabf7f0a2ff772 100644
--- a/html/branches.yaml
+++ b/html/branches.yaml
@@ -3667,11 +3667,11 @@ cloud:
   'Elastic Cloud Enterprise - Elastic Cloud on your Infrastructure/docs/shared/ms-92': 71805b745dc0b4e43ba71025d12a1eea52f07d4e
   'Elastic Cloud Enterprise - Elastic Cloud on your Infrastructure/docs/shared/release-ms-41': d0eaa3ecc37738d47c0d9ed66953e017a5c5aa0c
   Elastic Cloud Hosted Release Notes/docs/saas/master: dabc6b65e30c5115d0f4ef4caa8ce467d7ced614
-  'Elastic Cloud, Hosted Elastic Stack/docs/saas/ms-122': 6395b1fda56827a6c7816c1c5116d4b01e68e6db
-  'Elastic Cloud, Hosted Elastic Stack/docs/shared/ms-122': 6395b1fda56827a6c7816c1c5116d4b01e68e6db
-  'Elasticsearch Add-On for Heroku - Hosted Elasticsearch and Kibana for Heroku Users/docs/heroku/ms-122': 6395b1fda56827a6c7816c1c5116d4b01e68e6db
-  'Elasticsearch Add-On for Heroku - Hosted Elasticsearch and Kibana for Heroku Users/docs/saas/ms-122': 6395b1fda56827a6c7816c1c5116d4b01e68e6db
-  'Elasticsearch Add-On for Heroku - Hosted Elasticsearch and Kibana for Heroku Users/docs/shared/ms-122': 6395b1fda56827a6c7816c1c5116d4b01e68e6db
+  'Elastic Cloud, Hosted Elastic Stack/docs/saas/ms-122': local
+  'Elastic Cloud, Hosted Elastic Stack/docs/shared/ms-122': local
+  'Elasticsearch Add-On for Heroku - Hosted Elasticsearch and Kibana for Heroku Users/docs/heroku/ms-122': local
+  'Elasticsearch Add-On for Heroku - Hosted Elasticsearch and Kibana for Heroku Users/docs/saas/ms-122': local
+  'Elasticsearch Add-On for Heroku - Hosted Elasticsearch and Kibana for Heroku Users/docs/shared/ms-122': local
 cloud-assets:
   'Elastic Cloud Enterprise - Elastic Cloud on your Infrastructure/docs/master': d4a9440f3bb0bbfc676fc8c327449e4d2cd7cd79
 cloud-on-k8s:
diff --git a/html/en/cloud/current/ec-enable-enterprise-search.html b/html/en/cloud/current/ec-enable-enterprise-search.html
index fa84d7737ec92b..fe04816dab48cf 100644
--- a/html/en/cloud/current/ec-enable-enterprise-search.html
+++ b/html/en/cloud/current/ec-enable-enterprise-search.html
@@ -174,12 +174,44 @@
 </ol>
 </div>
 <p>Now that your Enterprise Search instance is set up, learn more about it by following the Enterprise Search Reference <a href="/guide/en/enterprise-search/current/index.html" class="ulink" target="_top">Getting Started</a> documentation.</p>
+<div class="section">
+<div class="titlepage"><div><div>
+<div class="position-relative"><h3 class="title"><a id="ec_automatic_disablement_of_idle_enterprise_search"></a>Automatic disablement of idle Enterprise Search</h3><a class="edit_me edit_me_private" rel="nofollow" title="Editing on GitHub is available to Elastic" href="https://github.com/elastic/cloud/edit/ms-122/docs/shared/ec-ce-enable-enterprise-search.asciidoc">edit</a></div>
+</div></div></div>
+<p>Elastic Cloud Hosted (ECH) automatically disables Enterprise Search if it’s considered unused for an extended period. This is expected behavior and applies even when autoscaling is disabled.</p>
+<p>Enterprise Search is considered unused if all the following conditions are true:</p>
+<div class="ulist itemizedlist">
+<ul class="itemizedlist">
+<li class="listitem">
+The deployment is using the default initial size (a single 2 GB instance).
+</li>
+<li class="listitem">
+No App Search engines have been created.
+</li>
+<li class="listitem">
+No Workplace Search organizations or sources are configured.
+</li>
+<li class="listitem">
+No queries have been run through App Search or Workplace Search in the past 14 days (ECH) or 30 days (Elastic GovCloud).
+</li>
+<li class="listitem">
+No ingest sources, connectors, or existing search indices have been in use.
+</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+<p>ECH uses internal metrics to check usage. If usage metrics show no activity during the evaluation period, the service will be disabled automatically.
+To learn more about these metrics, see the <a href="/guide/en/enterprise-search/current/monitoring-apis.html#stats-api" class="ulink" target="_top">Enterprise Search Stats API</a> documentation.</p>
+<div class="tip admon">
+<div class="icon"></div>
+<div class="admon_content">
+<p>To re-enable Enterprise Search, go to <span class="strong strong"><strong>Elastic Cloud &gt; Deployments &gt; your-deployment &gt; Edit</strong></span>, then enable the Enterprise Search service.</p>
+</div>
+</div>
 <div class="note admon">
 <div class="icon"></div>
 <div class="admon_content">
-<p>If Enterprise Search is left at the default size, and has no engines or sources configured for an extended period, it will be automatically disabled.
-This occurs whether <a class="xref" href="ec-autoscaling.html" title="Deployment autoscaling">autoscaling</a> is enabled or not.</p>
-<p>Reactivate the service by editing the <span class="strong strong"><strong>Enterprise Search</strong></span> settings for your deployment under <span class="strong strong"><strong>Cloud &gt; Deployments &gt; <em>your-deployment</em> &gt; Edit</strong></span>.</p>
+<p>If you’ve added ingestion pipelines or connectors but haven’t created an App Search engine, Enterprise Search may still be disabled even after reactivation.
+To ensure the service remains active, create an App Search engine immediately after re-enabling Enterprise Search.</p>
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="position-relative"><h3><a id="ec-upgrade-appsearch2"></a>Upgrade App Search to Enterprise Search</h3><a class="edit_me edit_me_private" rel="nofollow" title="Editing on GitHub is available to Elastic" href="https://github.com/elastic/cloud/edit/ms-122/docs/shared/ec-ce-upgrade-appsearch.asciidoc">edit</a></div>
@@ -223,6 +255,8 @@
 </li>
 </ol>
 </div>
+</div>
+
 <div class="section">
 <div class="titlepage"><div><div>
 <div class="position-relative"><h3 class="title"><a id="ec-appsearch-readonly2"></a>Read-only mode</h3><a class="edit_me edit_me_private" rel="nofollow" title="Editing on GitHub is available to Elastic" href="https://github.com/elastic/cloud/edit/ms-122/docs/shared/ec-ce-upgrade-appsearch.asciidoc">edit</a></div>
diff --git a/html/en/cloud/latest/ec-enable-enterprise-search.html b/html/en/cloud/latest/ec-enable-enterprise-search.html
index fa84d7737ec92b..fe04816dab48cf 100644
--- a/html/en/cloud/latest/ec-enable-enterprise-search.html
+++ b/html/en/cloud/latest/ec-enable-enterprise-search.html
@@ -174,12 +174,44 @@
 </ol>
 </div>
 <p>Now that your Enterprise Search instance is set up, learn more about it by following the Enterprise Search Reference <a href="/guide/en/enterprise-search/current/index.html" class="ulink" target="_top">Getting Started</a> documentation.</p>
+<div class="section">
+<div class="titlepage"><div><div>
+<div class="position-relative"><h3 class="title"><a id="ec_automatic_disablement_of_idle_enterprise_search"></a>Automatic disablement of idle Enterprise Search</h3><a class="edit_me edit_me_private" rel="nofollow" title="Editing on GitHub is available to Elastic" href="https://github.com/elastic/cloud/edit/ms-122/docs/shared/ec-ce-enable-enterprise-search.asciidoc">edit</a></div>
+</div></div></div>
+<p>Elastic Cloud Hosted (ECH) automatically disables Enterprise Search if it’s considered unused for an extended period. This is expected behavior and applies even when autoscaling is disabled.</p>
+<p>Enterprise Search is considered unused if all the following conditions are true:</p>
+<div class="ulist itemizedlist">
+<ul class="itemizedlist">
+<li class="listitem">
+The deployment is using the default initial size (a single 2 GB instance).
+</li>
+<li class="listitem">
+No App Search engines have been created.
+</li>
+<li class="listitem">
+No Workplace Search organizations or sources are configured.
+</li>
+<li class="listitem">
+No queries have been run through App Search or Workplace Search in the past 14 days (ECH) or 30 days (Elastic GovCloud).
+</li>
+<li class="listitem">
+No ingest sources, connectors, or existing search indices have been in use.
+</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+<p>ECH uses internal metrics to check usage. If usage metrics show no activity during the evaluation period, the service will be disabled automatically.
+To learn more about these metrics, see the <a href="/guide/en/enterprise-search/current/monitoring-apis.html#stats-api" class="ulink" target="_top">Enterprise Search Stats API</a> documentation.</p>
+<div class="tip admon">
+<div class="icon"></div>
+<div class="admon_content">
+<p>To re-enable Enterprise Search, go to <span class="strong strong"><strong>Elastic Cloud &gt; Deployments &gt; your-deployment &gt; Edit</strong></span>, then enable the Enterprise Search service.</p>
+</div>
+</div>
 <div class="note admon">
 <div class="icon"></div>
 <div class="admon_content">
-<p>If Enterprise Search is left at the default size, and has no engines or sources configured for an extended period, it will be automatically disabled.
-This occurs whether <a class="xref" href="ec-autoscaling.html" title="Deployment autoscaling">autoscaling</a> is enabled or not.</p>
-<p>Reactivate the service by editing the <span class="strong strong"><strong>Enterprise Search</strong></span> settings for your deployment under <span class="strong strong"><strong>Cloud &gt; Deployments &gt; <em>your-deployment</em> &gt; Edit</strong></span>.</p>
+<p>If you’ve added ingestion pipelines or connectors but haven’t created an App Search engine, Enterprise Search may still be disabled even after reactivation.
+To ensure the service remains active, create an App Search engine immediately after re-enabling Enterprise Search.</p>
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="position-relative"><h3><a id="ec-upgrade-appsearch2"></a>Upgrade App Search to Enterprise Search</h3><a class="edit_me edit_me_private" rel="nofollow" title="Editing on GitHub is available to Elastic" href="https://github.com/elastic/cloud/edit/ms-122/docs/shared/ec-ce-upgrade-appsearch.asciidoc">edit</a></div>
@@ -223,6 +255,8 @@
 </li>
 </ol>
 </div>
+</div>
+
 <div class="section">
 <div class="titlepage"><div><div>
 <div class="position-relative"><h3 class="title"><a id="ec-appsearch-readonly2"></a>Read-only mode</h3><a class="edit_me edit_me_private" rel="nofollow" title="Editing on GitHub is available to Elastic" href="https://github.com/elastic/cloud/edit/ms-122/docs/shared/ec-ce-upgrade-appsearch.asciidoc">edit</a></div>
diff --git a/html/sitemap.xml b/html/sitemap.xml
index 20c95cd633d489..bec4df17a95d51 100644
--- a/html/sitemap.xml
+++ b/html/sitemap.xml
@@ -27863,7 +27863,7 @@
 
 <url>
     <loc>https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/cloud/current/ec-enable-enterprise-search.html</loc>
-    <lastmod>2025-04-15T09:19:43+00:00</lastmod>
+    <lastmod>2025-08-04T08:08:08+00:00</lastmod>
     <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
     <priority>0.5</priority>
 </url>
diff --git a/raw/en/cloud/current/ec-enable-enterprise-search.html b/raw/en/cloud/current/ec-enable-enterprise-search.html
index 482f974aff14d5..f0c6a52abb120f 100644
--- a/raw/en/cloud/current/ec-enable-enterprise-search.html
+++ b/raw/en/cloud/current/ec-enable-enterprise-search.html
@@ -90,12 +90,44 @@
 </ol>
 </div>
 <p>Now that your Enterprise Search instance is set up, learn more about it by following the Enterprise Search Reference <a href="/guide/en/enterprise-search/current/index.html" class="ulink" target="_top">Getting Started</a> documentation.</p>
+<div class="section">
+<div class="titlepage"><div><div>
+<div class="position-relative"><h3 class="title"><a id="ec_automatic_disablement_of_idle_enterprise_search"></a>Automatic disablement of idle Enterprise Search</h3><a class="edit_me edit_me_private" rel="nofollow" title="Editing on GitHub is available to Elastic" href="https://github.com/elastic/cloud/edit/ms-122/docs/shared/ec-ce-enable-enterprise-search.asciidoc">edit</a></div>
+</div></div></div>
+<p>Elastic Cloud Hosted (ECH) automatically disables Enterprise Search if it’s considered unused for an extended period. This is expected behavior and applies even when autoscaling is disabled.</p>
+<p>Enterprise Search is considered unused if all the following conditions are true:</p>
+<div class="ulist itemizedlist">
+<ul class="itemizedlist">
+<li class="listitem">
+The deployment is using the default initial size (a single 2 GB instance).
+</li>
+<li class="listitem">
+No App Search engines have been created.
+</li>
+<li class="listitem">
+No Workplace Search organizations or sources are configured.
+</li>
+<li class="listitem">
+No queries have been run through App Search or Workplace Search in the past 14 days (ECH) or 30 days (Elastic GovCloud).
+</li>
+<li class="listitem">
+No ingest sources, connectors, or existing search indices have been in use.
+</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+<p>ECH uses internal metrics to check usage. If usage metrics show no activity during the evaluation period, the service will be disabled automatically.
+To learn more about these metrics, see the <a href="/guide/en/enterprise-search/current/monitoring-apis.html#stats-api" class="ulink" target="_top">Enterprise Search Stats API</a> documentation.</p>
+<div class="tip admon">
+<div class="icon"></div>
+<div class="admon_content">
+<p>To re-enable Enterprise Search, go to <span class="strong strong"><strong>Elastic Cloud &gt; Deployments &gt; your-deployment &gt; Edit</strong></span>, then enable the Enterprise Search service.</p>
+</div>
+</div>
 <div class="note admon">
 <div class="icon"></div>
 <div class="admon_content">
-<p>If Enterprise Search is left at the default size, and has no engines or sources configured for an extended period, it will be automatically disabled.
-This occurs whether <a class="xref" href="ec-autoscaling.html" title="Deployment autoscaling">autoscaling</a> is enabled or not.</p>
-<p>Reactivate the service by editing the <span class="strong strong"><strong>Enterprise Search</strong></span> settings for your deployment under <span class="strong strong"><strong>Cloud &gt; Deployments &gt; <em>your-deployment</em> &gt; Edit</strong></span>.</p>
+<p>If you’ve added ingestion pipelines or connectors but haven’t created an App Search engine, Enterprise Search may still be disabled even after reactivation.
+To ensure the service remains active, create an App Search engine immediately after re-enabling Enterprise Search.</p>
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="position-relative"><h3><a id="ec-upgrade-appsearch2"></a>Upgrade App Search to Enterprise Search</h3><a class="edit_me edit_me_private" rel="nofollow" title="Editing on GitHub is available to Elastic" href="https://github.com/elastic/cloud/edit/ms-122/docs/shared/ec-ce-upgrade-appsearch.asciidoc">edit</a></div>
@@ -139,6 +171,8 @@
 </li>
 </ol>
 </div>
+</div>
+
 <div class="section">
 <div class="titlepage"><div><div>
 <div class="position-relative"><h3 class="title"><a id="ec-appsearch-readonly2"></a>Read-only mode</h3><a class="edit_me edit_me_private" rel="nofollow" title="Editing on GitHub is available to Elastic" href="https://github.com/elastic/cloud/edit/ms-122/docs/shared/ec-ce-upgrade-appsearch.asciidoc">edit</a></div>
diff --git a/raw/en/cloud/latest/ec-enable-enterprise-search.html b/raw/en/cloud/latest/ec-enable-enterprise-search.html
index 482f974aff14d5..f0c6a52abb120f 100644
--- a/raw/en/cloud/latest/ec-enable-enterprise-search.html
+++ b/raw/en/cloud/latest/ec-enable-enterprise-search.html
@@ -90,12 +90,44 @@
 </ol>
 </div>
 <p>Now that your Enterprise Search instance is set up, learn more about it by following the Enterprise Search Reference <a href="/guide/en/enterprise-search/current/index.html" class="ulink" target="_top">Getting Started</a> documentation.</p>
+<div class="section">
+<div class="titlepage"><div><div>
+<div class="position-relative"><h3 class="title"><a id="ec_automatic_disablement_of_idle_enterprise_search"></a>Automatic disablement of idle Enterprise Search</h3><a class="edit_me edit_me_private" rel="nofollow" title="Editing on GitHub is available to Elastic" href="https://github.com/elastic/cloud/edit/ms-122/docs/shared/ec-ce-enable-enterprise-search.asciidoc">edit</a></div>
+</div></div></div>
+<p>Elastic Cloud Hosted (ECH) automatically disables Enterprise Search if it’s considered unused for an extended period. This is expected behavior and applies even when autoscaling is disabled.</p>
+<p>Enterprise Search is considered unused if all the following conditions are true:</p>
+<div class="ulist itemizedlist">
+<ul class="itemizedlist">
+<li class="listitem">
+The deployment is using the default initial size (a single 2 GB instance).
+</li>
+<li class="listitem">
+No App Search engines have been created.
+</li>
+<li class="listitem">
+No Workplace Search organizations or sources are configured.
+</li>
+<li class="listitem">
+No queries have been run through App Search or Workplace Search in the past 14 days (ECH) or 30 days (Elastic GovCloud).
+</li>
+<li class="listitem">
+No ingest sources, connectors, or existing search indices have been in use.
+</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+<p>ECH uses internal metrics to check usage. If usage metrics show no activity during the evaluation period, the service will be disabled automatically.
+To learn more about these metrics, see the <a href="/guide/en/enterprise-search/current/monitoring-apis.html#stats-api" class="ulink" target="_top">Enterprise Search Stats API</a> documentation.</p>
+<div class="tip admon">
+<div class="icon"></div>
+<div class="admon_content">
+<p>To re-enable Enterprise Search, go to <span class="strong strong"><strong>Elastic Cloud &gt; Deployments &gt; your-deployment &gt; Edit</strong></span>, then enable the Enterprise Search service.</p>
+</div>
+</div>
 <div class="note admon">
 <div class="icon"></div>
 <div class="admon_content">
-<p>If Enterprise Search is left at the default size, and has no engines or sources configured for an extended period, it will be automatically disabled.
-This occurs whether <a class="xref" href="ec-autoscaling.html" title="Deployment autoscaling">autoscaling</a> is enabled or not.</p>
-<p>Reactivate the service by editing the <span class="strong strong"><strong>Enterprise Search</strong></span> settings for your deployment under <span class="strong strong"><strong>Cloud &gt; Deployments &gt; <em>your-deployment</em> &gt; Edit</strong></span>.</p>
+<p>If you’ve added ingestion pipelines or connectors but haven’t created an App Search engine, Enterprise Search may still be disabled even after reactivation.
+To ensure the service remains active, create an App Search engine immediately after re-enabling Enterprise Search.</p>
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="position-relative"><h3><a id="ec-upgrade-appsearch2"></a>Upgrade App Search to Enterprise Search</h3><a class="edit_me edit_me_private" rel="nofollow" title="Editing on GitHub is available to Elastic" href="https://github.com/elastic/cloud/edit/ms-122/docs/shared/ec-ce-upgrade-appsearch.asciidoc">edit</a></div>
@@ -139,6 +171,8 @@
 </li>
 </ol>
 </div>
+</div>
+
 <div class="section">
 <div class="titlepage"><div><div>
 <div class="position-relative"><h3 class="title"><a id="ec-appsearch-readonly2"></a>Read-only mode</h3><a class="edit_me edit_me_private" rel="nofollow" title="Editing on GitHub is available to Elastic" href="https://github.com/elastic/cloud/edit/ms-122/docs/shared/ec-ce-upgrade-appsearch.asciidoc">edit</a></div>
