diff --git a/.drone.yml b/.drone.yml
index 4190807e50a..6c5961a92d4 100644
--- a/.drone.yml
+++ b/.drone.yml
@@ -1273,11 +1273,6 @@ steps:
   depends_on: []
   image: node:22.11.0-alpine
   name: yarn-install
-- commands:
-  - pip3 install codespell
-  - codespell -I docs/.codespellignore docs/
-  image: python:3.8
-  name: codespell
 - commands:
   - yarn run prettier:checkDocs
   depends_on:
@@ -1635,11 +1630,6 @@ steps:
   depends_on: []
   image: node:22.11.0-alpine
   name: yarn-install
-- commands:
-  - pip3 install codespell
-  - codespell -I docs/.codespellignore docs/
-  image: python:3.8
-  name: codespell
 - commands:
   - yarn run prettier:checkDocs
   depends_on:
@@ -5579,6 +5569,6 @@ kind: secret
 name: gcr_credentials
 ---
 kind: signature
-hmac: bdf4cd3767ad13e5a8d7221731676e8ee1991dae0da9ae2cee92087d5c660ece
+hmac: be82e983dfa15f85f82935674ec109056f519ff99c7ab1f4be71f9ce62b571a7
 
 ...
diff --git a/.github/CODEOWNERS b/.github/CODEOWNERS
index 14e772bd595..3f1bf16df2c 100644
--- a/.github/CODEOWNERS
+++ b/.github/CODEOWNERS
@@ -32,10 +32,10 @@
 /devenv/README.md @grafana/docs-grafana
 
 # START Technical documentation
+/.vale.ini
 # `make docs` procedure and related workflows are owned @grafana/docs-tooling. Slack #docs.
 /docs/                                                                            @grafana/docs-tooling
 
-/docs/.codespellignore                                                            @grafana/docs-tooling
 /docs/sources/                                                                    @irenerl24
 
 /docs/sources/alerting/                                                           @brendamuir
@@ -757,6 +757,7 @@ embed.go @grafana/grafana-as-code
 /.github/workflows/commands.yml @torkelo
 /.github/workflows/community-release.yml @grafana/grafana-developer-enablement-squad
 /.github/workflows/detect-breaking-changes-* @grafana/plugins-platform-frontend
+/.github/workflows/documentation-ci.yml @grafana/docs-tooling
 /.github/workflows/doc-validator.yml @grafana/docs-tooling
 /.github/workflows/deploy-pr-preview.yml @grafana/docs-tooling
 /.github/workflows/epic-add-to-platform-ux-parent-project.yml @meanmina
diff --git a/.github/workflows/documentation-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/documentation-ci.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..80ad62a573e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/documentation-ci.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+name: Documentation CI
+on:
+  pull_request:
+    paths: ["docs/sources/**"]
+  workflow_dispatch:
+jobs:
+  vale:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    container:
+      image: grafana/vale:latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
+        with:
+          persist-credentials: false
+      - uses: grafana/writers-toolkit/vale-action@4b1248585248751e3b12fd020cf7ac91540ca09c # vale-action/v1.0.0
+        with:
+          filter: |
+            '.Name in ["Grafana.WordList", "Grafana.Spelling", "Grafana.ProductPossessives"]'
+          token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
diff --git a/.vale.ini b/.vale.ini
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..3f5c12597c8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.vale.ini
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+MinAlertLevel = warning
+
+[*]
+BasedOnStyles = Grafana
diff --git a/docs/.codespellignore b/docs/.codespellignore
deleted file mode 100644
index 43ea4f4fa93..00000000000
--- a/docs/.codespellignore
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-aks
-eror
-geomap
-Geomap
-grafanalib
-grafonnet
-iam
-Jsonnet
-[Operato Windrose](https://grafana.com/grafana/plugins/operato-windrose-panel/)
-runbook
-sergent
-sparkline
-wan
diff --git a/scripts/drone/pipelines/docs.star b/scripts/drone/pipelines/docs.star
index 536749b9e04..7b1f63642bc 100644
--- a/scripts/drone/pipelines/docs.star
+++ b/scripts/drone/pipelines/docs.star
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ This module returns all the pipelines used in the event of documentation changes
 load(
     "scripts/drone/steps/lib.star",
     "build_docs_website_step",
-    "codespell_step",
     "identify_runner_step",
     "verify_gen_cue_step",
     "yarn_install_step",
@@ -33,7 +32,6 @@ def docs_pipelines(ver_mode, trigger):
     steps = [
         identify_runner_step(),
         yarn_install_step(),
-        codespell_step(),
         lint_docs(),
         build_docs_website_step(),
         verify_gen_cue_step(),
diff --git a/scripts/drone/steps/lib.star b/scripts/drone/steps/lib.star
index e8afa62788f..36cd3a2db86 100644
--- a/scripts/drone/steps/lib.star
+++ b/scripts/drone/steps/lib.star
@@ -753,16 +753,6 @@ def frontend_metrics_step(trigger = None):
         step = dict(step, when = trigger)
     return step
 
-def codespell_step():
-    return {
-        "name": "codespell",
-        "image": images["python"],
-        "commands": [
-            "pip3 install codespell",
-            "codespell -I docs/.codespellignore docs/",
-        ],
-    }
-
 def grafana_server_step():
     """Runs the grafana-server binary as a service.