diff --git a/x-pack/plugins/ingest_pipelines/public/application/components/pipeline_processors_editor/components/manage_processor_form/processors/gsub.tsx b/x-pack/plugins/ingest_pipelines/public/application/components/pipeline_processors_editor/components/manage_processor_form/processors/gsub.tsx
index a42df6873d57b1..2f2a75853d9e90 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugins/ingest_pipelines/public/application/components/pipeline_processors_editor/components/manage_processor_form/processors/gsub.tsx
+++ b/x-pack/plugins/ingest_pipelines/public/application/components/pipeline_processors_editor/components/manage_processor_form/processors/gsub.tsx
@@ -6,8 +6,6 @@
 
 import React, { FunctionComponent } from 'react';
 import { i18n } from '@kbn/i18n';
-import { FormattedMessage } from '@kbn/i18n/react';
-import { EuiCode } from '@elastic/eui';
 
 import { FIELD_TYPES, fieldValidators, UseField, Field } from '../../../../../../shared_imports';
 
@@ -87,17 +85,7 @@ export const Gsub: FunctionComponent = () => {
 
       <UseField config={fieldsConfig.replacement} component={Field} path="fields.replacement" />
 
-      <TargetField
-        helpText={
-          <FormattedMessage
-            id="xpack.ingestPipelines.pipelineEditor.gsubForm.targetFieldHelpText"
-            defaultMessage="Field used to contain updated text. Defaults to {field}."
-            values={{
-              field: <EuiCode>{'field'}</EuiCode>,
-            }}
-          />
-        }
-      />
+      <TargetField />
 
       <IgnoreMissingField />
     </>
diff --git a/x-pack/plugins/ingest_pipelines/public/application/components/pipeline_processors_editor/components/manage_processor_form/processors/html_strip.tsx b/x-pack/plugins/ingest_pipelines/public/application/components/pipeline_processors_editor/components/manage_processor_form/processors/html_strip.tsx
index fb1a2d97672b01..c3f38cb0213718 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugins/ingest_pipelines/public/application/components/pipeline_processors_editor/components/manage_processor_form/processors/html_strip.tsx
+++ b/x-pack/plugins/ingest_pipelines/public/application/components/pipeline_processors_editor/components/manage_processor_form/processors/html_strip.tsx
@@ -6,8 +6,6 @@
 
 import React, { FunctionComponent } from 'react';
 import { i18n } from '@kbn/i18n';
-import { FormattedMessage } from '@kbn/i18n/react';
-import { EuiCode } from '@elastic/eui';
 
 import { FieldNameField } from './common_fields/field_name_field';
 import { IgnoreMissingField } from './common_fields/ignore_missing_field';
@@ -23,15 +21,7 @@ export const HtmlStrip: FunctionComponent = () => {
         )}
       />
 
-      <TargetField
-        helpText={
-          <FormattedMessage
-            id="xpack.ingestPipelines.pipelineEditor.htmlStripForm.targetFieldHelpText"
-            defaultMessage="Field used to contain stripped text. Defaults to {field}."
-            values={{ field: <EuiCode>{'field'}</EuiCode> }}
-          />
-        }
-      />
+      <TargetField />
 
       <IgnoreMissingField />
     </>
diff --git a/x-pack/plugins/ingest_pipelines/public/application/components/pipeline_processors_editor/components/manage_processor_form/processors/join.tsx b/x-pack/plugins/ingest_pipelines/public/application/components/pipeline_processors_editor/components/manage_processor_form/processors/join.tsx
index ab077d3337f632..c70f48e0297e41 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugins/ingest_pipelines/public/application/components/pipeline_processors_editor/components/manage_processor_form/processors/join.tsx
+++ b/x-pack/plugins/ingest_pipelines/public/application/components/pipeline_processors_editor/components/manage_processor_form/processors/join.tsx
@@ -6,8 +6,6 @@
 
 import React, { FunctionComponent } from 'react';
 import { i18n } from '@kbn/i18n';
-import { FormattedMessage } from '@kbn/i18n/react';
-import { EuiCode } from '@elastic/eui';
 
 import { FIELD_TYPES, fieldValidators, UseField, Field } from '../../../../../../shared_imports';
 
@@ -55,17 +53,7 @@ export const Join: FunctionComponent = () => {
 
       <UseField config={fieldsConfig.separator} component={Field} path="fields.separator" />
 
-      <TargetField
-        helpText={
-          <FormattedMessage
-            id="xpack.ingestPipelines.pipelineEditor.joinForm.targetFieldHelpText"
-            defaultMessage="Field used to contain the joined value. Defaults to {field}."
-            values={{
-              field: <EuiCode>{'field'}</EuiCode>,
-            }}
-          />
-        }
-      />
+      <TargetField />
     </>
   );
 };
diff --git a/x-pack/plugins/ingest_pipelines/public/application/components/pipeline_processors_editor/components/manage_processor_form/processors/json.tsx b/x-pack/plugins/ingest_pipelines/public/application/components/pipeline_processors_editor/components/manage_processor_form/processors/json.tsx
index b68b398325085f..f01228a26297b2 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugins/ingest_pipelines/public/application/components/pipeline_processors_editor/components/manage_processor_form/processors/json.tsx
+++ b/x-pack/plugins/ingest_pipelines/public/application/components/pipeline_processors_editor/components/manage_processor_form/processors/json.tsx
@@ -65,12 +65,7 @@ export const Json: FunctionComponent = () => {
         )}
       />
 
-      <TargetField
-        helpText={i18n.translate(
-          'xpack.ingestPipelines.pipelineEditor.jsonForm.targetFieldHelpText',
-          { defaultMessage: 'Field used to contain the JSON object.' }
-        )}
-      />
+      <TargetField />
 
       <UseField
         config={fieldsConfig.add_to_root}
diff --git a/x-pack/plugins/ingest_pipelines/public/application/components/pipeline_processors_editor/components/shared/map_processor_type_to_form.tsx b/x-pack/plugins/ingest_pipelines/public/application/components/pipeline_processors_editor/components/shared/map_processor_type_to_form.tsx
index 799551b296bab9..59ec64944a3c91 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugins/ingest_pipelines/public/application/components/pipeline_processors_editor/components/shared/map_processor_type_to_form.tsx
+++ b/x-pack/plugins/ingest_pipelines/public/application/components/pipeline_processors_editor/components/shared/map_processor_type_to_form.tsx
@@ -7,7 +7,8 @@
 import { i18n } from '@kbn/i18n';
 import React, { ReactNode } from 'react';
 import { FormattedMessage } from '@kbn/i18n/react';
-import { EuiCode } from '@elastic/eui';
+import { EuiCode, EuiLink } from '@elastic/eui';
+import { useKibana } from '../../../../../shared_imports';
 
 import {
   Append,
@@ -171,6 +172,25 @@ export const mapProcessorTypeToDescriptor: MapProcessorTypeToDescriptor = {
     label: i18n.translate('xpack.ingestPipelines.processors.label.enrich', {
       defaultMessage: 'Enrich',
     }),
+    description: function Description() {
+      const {
+        services: { documentation },
+      } = useKibana();
+      const esDocUrl = documentation.getEsDocsBasePath();
+      return (
+        <FormattedMessage
+          id="xpack.ingestPipelines.processors.description.enrich"
+          defaultMessage="Adds enrich data to incoming documents based on an {enrichPolicyLink}."
+          values={{
+            enrichPolicyLink: (
+              <EuiLink external target="_blank" href={esDocUrl + '/ingest-enriching-data.html'}>
+                {'enrich policy'}
+              </EuiLink>
+            ),
+          }}
+        />
+      );
+    },
   },
   fail: {
     FieldsComponent: Fail,
@@ -178,6 +198,10 @@ export const mapProcessorTypeToDescriptor: MapProcessorTypeToDescriptor = {
     label: i18n.translate('xpack.ingestPipelines.processors.label.fail', {
       defaultMessage: 'Fail',
     }),
+    description: i18n.translate('xpack.ingestPipelines.processors.description.fail', {
+      defaultMessage:
+        'Returns a custom error message on failure. Often used to notify requesters of required conditions.',
+    }),
   },
   foreach: {
     FieldsComponent: Foreach,
@@ -185,6 +209,9 @@ export const mapProcessorTypeToDescriptor: MapProcessorTypeToDescriptor = {
     label: i18n.translate('xpack.ingestPipelines.processors.label.foreach', {
       defaultMessage: 'Foreach',
     }),
+    description: i18n.translate('xpack.ingestPipelines.processors.description.foreach', {
+      defaultMessage: 'Applies an ingest processor to each value in an array.',
+    }),
   },
   geoip: {
     FieldsComponent: GeoIP,
@@ -192,6 +219,10 @@ export const mapProcessorTypeToDescriptor: MapProcessorTypeToDescriptor = {
     label: i18n.translate('xpack.ingestPipelines.processors.label.geoip', {
       defaultMessage: 'GeoIP',
     }),
+    description: i18n.translate('xpack.ingestPipelines.processors.description.geoip', {
+      defaultMessage:
+        'Adds geo data based on an IP address. Uses geo data from a Maxmind database file.',
+    }),
   },
   grok: {
     FieldsComponent: Grok,
@@ -199,6 +230,25 @@ export const mapProcessorTypeToDescriptor: MapProcessorTypeToDescriptor = {
     label: i18n.translate('xpack.ingestPipelines.processors.label.grok', {
       defaultMessage: 'Grok',
     }),
+    description: function Description() {
+      const {
+        services: { documentation },
+      } = useKibana();
+      const esDocUrl = documentation.getEsDocsBasePath();
+      return (
+        <FormattedMessage
+          id="xpack.ingestPipelines.processors.description.grok"
+          defaultMessage="Uses {grokLink} expressions to extract matches from a field."
+          values={{
+            grokLink: (
+              <EuiLink external target="_blank" href={esDocUrl + '/grok-processor.html'}>
+                {'grok'}
+              </EuiLink>
+            ),
+          }}
+        />
+      );
+    },
   },
   gsub: {
     FieldsComponent: Gsub,
@@ -206,6 +256,9 @@ export const mapProcessorTypeToDescriptor: MapProcessorTypeToDescriptor = {
     label: i18n.translate('xpack.ingestPipelines.processors.label.gsub', {
       defaultMessage: 'Gsub',
     }),
+    description: i18n.translate('xpack.ingestPipelines.processors.description.gsub', {
+      defaultMessage: 'Uses a regular expression to replace field substrings.',
+    }),
   },
   html_strip: {
     FieldsComponent: HtmlStrip,
@@ -213,6 +266,9 @@ export const mapProcessorTypeToDescriptor: MapProcessorTypeToDescriptor = {
     label: i18n.translate('xpack.ingestPipelines.processors.label.htmlStrip', {
       defaultMessage: 'HTML strip',
     }),
+    description: i18n.translate('xpack.ingestPipelines.processors.description.htmlStrip', {
+      defaultMessage: 'Removes HTML tags from a field.',
+    }),
   },
   inference: {
     FieldsComponent: Inference,
@@ -220,6 +276,10 @@ export const mapProcessorTypeToDescriptor: MapProcessorTypeToDescriptor = {
     label: i18n.translate('xpack.ingestPipelines.processors.label.inference', {
       defaultMessage: 'Inference',
     }),
+    description: i18n.translate('xpack.ingestPipelines.processors.description.inference', {
+      defaultMessage:
+        'Uses a pre-trained data frame analytics model to infer against incoming data.',
+    }),
   },
   join: {
     FieldsComponent: Join,
@@ -227,6 +287,10 @@ export const mapProcessorTypeToDescriptor: MapProcessorTypeToDescriptor = {
     label: i18n.translate('xpack.ingestPipelines.processors.label.join', {
       defaultMessage: 'Join',
     }),
+    description: i18n.translate('xpack.ingestPipelines.processors.description.join', {
+      defaultMessage:
+        'Joins array elements into a string. Inserts a separator between each element.',
+    }),
   },
   json: {
     FieldsComponent: Json,
@@ -234,6 +298,9 @@ export const mapProcessorTypeToDescriptor: MapProcessorTypeToDescriptor = {
     label: i18n.translate('xpack.ingestPipelines.processors.label.json', {
       defaultMessage: 'JSON',
     }),
+    description: i18n.translate('xpack.ingestPipelines.processors.description.json', {
+      defaultMessage: 'Creates a JSON object from a compatible string.',
+    }),
   },
   kv: {
     FieldsComponent: Kv,