---
title: Configure Elastic Docs
description: It's first important to understand how we build Elastic Docs: When working with docs-builder, there are three levels at which you can configure Elastic...
url: https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3431/reference/docs-builder/configure
products:
  - Elastic Docs Builder
---

# Configure Elastic Docs
It's first important to understand how we build Elastic Docs:

| System property                                                                                                   | Asciidoc                                                                                         | V3                                                                                                                            |
|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| **Docs build tool** --> An engine used to take the markup in the content sources and transform it into web pages. | Customized version of AsciiDoctor (lives in [**elastic/docs**](https://github.com/elastic/docs)) | Customized doc builder using open source tools (lives in [**elastic/docs-builder**](https://github.com/elastic/docs-builder)) |

When working with `docs-builder`, there are three levels at which you can configure Elastic documentation:
1. Site-level
2. Content set-level
3. Page-level


## Site-level configuration

At the site level, you can configure:
- Content sources: where files live.
- Global navigation: how navigations are compiled and presented to users.

[Site configuration](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3431/reference/docs-builder/configure/site)

## Content-level configuration

At the content set level, you can configure:
- Content-set-level and sub-content-set-level navigation: how smaller groups of files are organized and presented to users.
- Attributes: variables that will be substituted at build-time for pre-defined values.

[Content-set configuration](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3431/reference/docs-builder/configure/content-set)

## Page-level configuration

At the page level, you can configure:
- Frontmatter that influences on-page UX to benefit the user in some way.

[Page configuration](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3431/reference/docs-builder/configure/page)