diff --git a/cloud/infra/terraform/relay-observability.tf b/cloud/infra/terraform/relay-observability.tf
index 8967c4ab945..9ce0393fa56 100644
--- a/cloud/infra/terraform/relay-observability.tf
+++ b/cloud/infra/terraform/relay-observability.tf
@@ -98,12 +98,9 @@ locals {
     cell_inventory_holds               = { field = "cellInventoryHolds", description = "Cell-inventory locks acquired in the interval; the percentiles above summarise these." }
     cell_inventory_lock_unavailable    = { field = "cellInventoryLockUnavailable", description = "Fail-fast cell-inventory acquisitions that found the lock held. Includes background sweeps, which step aside by design, so this is contention pressure rather than user-visible failure." }
     cell_inventory_lock_timeouts       = { field = "cellInventoryLockTimeouts", description = "Bounded cell-inventory waits that expired, counted per attempt rather than per request. This is the user-visible lane." }
-    cell_row_lock_scopes_checked       = { field = "cellRowLockScopesChecked", description = "Transactions in which the cell-row lock guard evaluated at least one relay_cells statement. The denominator: zero violations means nothing unless this is non-zero." }
+    cell_row_lock_scopes_checked       = { field = "cellRowLockScopesChecked", description = "Transactions in which the cell-row lock guard evaluated at least one relay_cells write. The denominator: zero violations says nothing unless this is non-zero." }
     cell_row_lock_scopes_stood_down    = { field = "cellRowLockScopesStoodDown", description = "Transactions in which the guard stood down because it could not read a locked row's cell_id. Non-zero is a bug report, not a clean run." }
-    cell_row_lock_scope_violations     = { field = "cellRowLockScopeViolations", description = "Cell-row lock order violations observed in the interval. Warn-only in production; throws in tests." }
-    cell_row_lock_scopes_checked       = { field = "cellRowLockScopesChecked", description = "Transactions in which the cell-row lock guard evaluated at least one relay_cells write. This is the denominator: zero violations only means something while this is above zero." }
-    cell_row_lock_scopes_stood_down    = { field = "cellRowLockScopesStoodDown", description = "Transactions in which the cell-row lock guard could not read a locked relay_cells statement and stopped checking. Any value above zero is a guard bug, not a clean run." }
-    cell_row_lock_scope_violations     = { field = "cellRowLockScopeViolations", description = "relay_cells row locks taken out of ascending cell_id order, or writes naming no cell. Warn-only in production; the per-cell locking conversion is gated on this staying zero against live traffic." }
+    cell_row_lock_scope_violations     = { field = "cellRowLockScopeViolations", description = "Cell-row lock order violations, plus relay_cells writes naming no cell. Warn-only in production, throws in tests; the per-cell locking conversion is gated on this staying zero against live traffic." }
   }
 
   # Regions the director can hint or select. Pinned to relay-contract's RELAY_REGIONS by