diff --git a/src/platform/plugins/private/presentation_panel/public/panel_component/panel_header/use_hover_actions_styles.tsx b/src/platform/plugins/private/presentation_panel/public/panel_component/panel_header/use_hover_actions_styles.tsx
index 39bf034f1b21b..2127845f88b13 100644
--- a/src/platform/plugins/private/presentation_panel/public/panel_component/panel_header/use_hover_actions_styles.tsx
+++ b/src/platform/plugins/private/presentation_panel/public/panel_component/panel_header/use_hover_actions_styles.tsx
@@ -27,10 +27,11 @@ export const useHoverActionStyles = (isEditMode: boolean, showBorder?: boolean)
         ${isEditMode ? editModeOutline : viewModeOutline}
       );
 
+      display: inline-block;
       container: hoverActionsAnchor / inline-size;
       border-radius: ${euiTheme.border.radius.medium};
       position: relative;
-      display: inline-block;
+      vertical-align: top;
       width: 100%;
       height: 100%;
 
@@ -41,9 +42,19 @@ export const useHoverActionStyles = (isEditMode: boolean, showBorder?: boolean)
             }
           `
         : css`
+            .embPanel {
+              outline: 1px solid transparent; // necessary for outline-color transition
+              z-index: ${euiTheme.levels.content}; // necessary for z-index transition
+              // delay hiding border on hover out to match delay on hover actions
+              transition: outline-color ${euiTheme.animation.extraFast},
+                z-index ${euiTheme.animation.extraFast};
+              transition-delay: ${euiTheme.animation.fast};
+            }
+
             &:hover .embPanel {
               outline: var(--internalBorderStyle);
               z-index: ${euiTheme.levels.menu};
+              transition: none; // apply transition on hover out only
             }
           `}
 
@@ -55,9 +66,9 @@ export const useHoverActionStyles = (isEditMode: boolean, showBorder?: boolean)
         visibility: hidden;
 
         // delay hiding hover actions to make grabbing the drag handle easier
-        transition: ${euiTheme.animation.extraFast} opacity ease-in,
-          ${euiTheme.animation.extraFast} z-index linear,
-          ${euiTheme.animation.extraFast} visibility linear;
+        transition: opacity ${euiTheme.animation.extraFast} ease-in,
+          z-index ${euiTheme.animation.extraFast} linear,
+          visibility ${euiTheme.animation.extraFast} linear;
         transition-delay: ${euiTheme.animation.fast};
       }
 
diff --git a/x-pack/solutions/security/plugins/security_solution/public/explore/components/stat_items/utils.tsx b/x-pack/solutions/security/plugins/security_solution/public/explore/components/stat_items/utils.tsx
index 986c9f4e92a52..f3885d2e3ffc7 100644
--- a/x-pack/solutions/security/plugins/security_solution/public/explore/components/stat_items/utils.tsx
+++ b/x-pack/solutions/security/plugins/security_solution/public/explore/components/stat_items/utils.tsx
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ export const MetricItem = styled(EuiFlexItem)`
   &.euiFlexItem {
     flex-basis: 0;
     flex-grow: 0;
+    min-width: 100px;
   }
 `;
 MetricItem.displayName = 'MetricItem';
diff --git a/x-pack/test/security_solution_cypress/cypress/e2e/explore/inspect/inspect_button.cy.ts b/x-pack/test/security_solution_cypress/cypress/e2e/explore/inspect/inspect_button.cy.ts
index b0269565cb317..a9025ba319acd 100644
--- a/x-pack/test/security_solution_cypress/cypress/e2e/explore/inspect/inspect_button.cy.ts
+++ b/x-pack/test/security_solution_cypress/cypress/e2e/explore/inspect/inspect_button.cy.ts
@@ -25,8 +25,7 @@ import { mockRiskEngineEnabled } from '../../../tasks/entity_analytics';
 
 const DATA_VIEW = 'auditbeat-*';
 
-// Failing: See https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/178367
-describe.skip('Inspect Explore pages', { tags: ['@ess', '@serverless'] }, () => {
+describe('Inspect Explore pages', { tags: ['@ess', '@serverless'] }, () => {
   beforeEach(() => {
     // illegal_argument_exception: unknown setting [index.lifecycle.name]
     cy.task('esArchiverLoad', { archiveName: 'risk_scores_new' });