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 The CrateDB Admin UI
 ====================
 
-CrateDB ships with a web administration user interface (or *Admin UI*).
+CrateDB ships with a web administration user interface (aka *Admin UI*)
+that you can use to inspect and interact with any CrateDB cluster. 
 
-The CrateDB Admin UI runs on every CrateDB node. You can use it to inspect
-and interact with the whole CrateDB cluster in a number of ways.
+.. NOTE::
+
+   The tool is primarily intended for self-hosted clusters and
+   mirrors the relevant features of the CreateDB Cloud Console. Cloud
+   users can also benefit from the Admin UI by using it to view
+   :ref:`shards <shards-browser>` or to provide console access to users
+   without full admin access to the Cloud Console.
 
 Connecting
 ==========
 
-You can access the Admin UI via HTTP on port ``4200``::
+The Admin UI runs on every CrateDB node and can be accessed on port
+``4200``::
 
   http://HOSTNAME:4200/