updated content on monitoring landing page

content/v2.0/monitor-alert/_index.md

@@ -2,7 +2,8 @@
 title: Monitor data and send alerts
 seotitle: Monitor data and send alerts
 description: >
-  Monitor your time series data and send alerts by creating checks, notification rules, and notification endpoints.
+  Monitor your time series data and send alerts by creating checks, notification
+  rules, and notification endpoints.
 menu:
   v2_0:
     name: Monitor and alert
@@ -11,17 +12,29 @@ v2.0/tags: [monitor, alert, checks, notification, endpoints]
 cloud_all: true
 ---
 
-Monitor your time series data and send alerts by creating checks, notification rules, and notification endpoints. To get started, do the following:
+Monitor your time series data and send alerts by creating checks, notification
+rules, and notification endpoints.
 
-1. [Create checks](...create-a-check) to monitor data for a specified check status.
-2. (Optional) Send alerts on a specified check status by doing the following:
+InfluxDB lets
 
-      a. [Create a notification endpoint](/v2.0/monitor-alert/notification-endpoints/create).
+## The monitoring workflow
+1.  InfluxDB uses a [check](/v2.0/reference/glossary/#check) to query data and
+    assigns a status or `_level` based on specific conditions.
+2.  InfluxDB stores the output the check in the `statuses` measurement in the `_monitoring` system bucket.
+3.  [Notification rules](/v2.0/reference/glossary/#notification-rule) check data in the `statuses`
+    measurement and, based conditions set in the notification rule, send a message
+    to a [notification endpoint](/v2.0/reference/glossary/#notification-endpoint).
+4.  InfluxDB stores notifications in the `notifications` measurement in the `_monitoring` system bucket.
 
-      b. [Create notification rules](/v2.0/monitor-alert/notification-rules/create).
+## Monitor your data
+To get started, do the following:
 
-After creating your initial checks and notifications, adjust how you monitor data and alerts as needed. For more information, see:
+1.  [Create checks](/v2.0/monitor-alert/checks/create/) to monitor data and assign a status.
+2.  [Add notification endpoints](/v2.0/monitor-alert/notification-endpoints/create/) to send notifications to.
+3.  [Create notification rules](/v2.0/monitor-alert/notification-rules/create) to check
+    statuses and send notifications to your notifications endpoints.
 
-- [Manage checks](/v2.0/cloud/monitor-alert/manage-checks)
-- [Manage notification rules](/v2.0/monitor-alert/notification-rules)
-- [Manage notification endpoints](/v2.0/monitor-alert/notification-endpoints)
+
+## Manage your monitoring and alerting pipeline
+
+{{< children >}}

content/v2.0/monitor-alert/checks/_index.md

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ related:
 cloud_all: true
 ---
 
-InfluxDB checks query data and apply a status or level to each data point based on specified conditions.
+Checks in InfluxDB query data and apply a status or level to each data point based on specified conditions.
 Learn how to create and manage checks:
 
 {{< children >}}

content/v2.0/monitor-alert/notification-rules/create.md

@@ -39,9 +39,7 @@ _For details, see [Manage checks](/v2.0/monitor-alert/checks/) and
 
 1. Select the **Monitoring and Alerting** icon from the sidebar.
 
-
     {{< nav-icon "alerts" >}}
 
-
 2. Under **Notification Rules**, hover over the rule you want to clone.
 3. Click the clone icon and select **Clone**. The cloned rule appears.