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* Have a requirement for cost effective long term data storage (many months or years).
* Provide insights and alerts using logs, metrics, traces, or various event types to ensure optimal performance and quick issue resolution for applications.
* Apply [machine learning anomaly detection](/explore-analyze/machine-learning/anomaly-detection.md) to help detect patterns in time series data to find root cause and resolve problems faster.
* Use an AI assistant ([Observability](/explore-analyze/ai-assistant.md), [Security](/solutions/security/ai/ai-assistant.md), or [Playground](/solutions/search/rag/playground.md)) for investigation, incident response, reporting, query generation, or query conversion from other languages using natural language.
* Use an AI assistant ([Observability](/explore-analyze/ai-features/ai-assistant.md), [Security](/solutions/security/ai/ai-assistant.md), or [Playground](/solutions/search/rag/playground.md)) for investigation, incident response, reporting, query generation, or query conversion from other languages using natural language.
* Deploy an architecture model that allows for maximum flexibility between storage cost and performance.

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AI Assistant requires specific privileges and a large language model (LLM) connector. The capabilities and ways to interact with AI Assistant can differ for each solution. To learn more about how it works in each solution, refer to:

- [{{obs-ai-assistant}}](../solutions/observability/observability-ai-assistant.md)
- [AI Assistant for Security](../solutions/security/ai/ai-assistant.md)
- [{{obs-ai-assistant}}](../../solutions/observability/observability-ai-assistant.md)
- [AI Assistant for Security](../../solutions/security/ai/ai-assistant.md)

To learn more about configuring LLM connectors, refer to:

- [Enable LLM access](../solutions/security/ai/set-up-connectors-for-large-language-models-llm.md)
- [Enable LLM access](../../solutions/security/ai/set-up-connectors-for-large-language-models-llm.md)

## Prompt best practices [rag-for-esql]
Elastic AI Assistant allows you to take full advantage of the Elastic platform to improve your operations. It can help you write an ES|QL query for a particular use case, or answer general questions about how to use the platform. Its ability to assist you depends on the specificity and detail of your questions. The more context and detail you provide, the more tailored and useful its responses will be.
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## Elastic Managed LLM [elastic-managed-llm-ai-assistant]

:::{include} ../solutions/_snippets/elastic-managed-llm.md
:::{include} ../../solutions/_snippets/elastic-managed-llm.md
:::
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I'd like this page to serve a clearer role in the narrative and answer the following questions for users:

  • What has Elastic to offer in terms AI core capabilities?
  • What features are augmented with AI?
  • What do I need to know as a user to use these wisely in terms of configuration/customization options and pricing. For example, if I plug the AI Assistant to Open AI / ChatGPT-5, which of my features are now going to use this model, which ones are relying on a different config.

To slightly shift the narrative of the current page to answer these questions, can we:

  • make a better distinction between the Elasticsearch platform's AI capabilities or architectural pieces (most notably the Elastic Inference Service and the Elastic Managed LLM, but also Gen AI connectors in general, or machine learning in general?), and AI-powered features that materialize in end-user flows in each solution. Said otherwise, some of these features here are not "search solution" features but rather platform capabilities. Think of this diagram (elastic internal)
  • list more succinctly certain items here to find the right balance/emphasis to put on certain features. For example, sub-sections under Streams could be a list of bullet points.
  • In the description of each feature, I think that instead of describing too much what the feature does, the goal of this page is rather to summarize how these features leverage AI, if that's automatic/by default or not (and if on by default, what does it use, what is customizable), what kind of AI-related configuration they rely on. For example, in the Attack Discovery docs, we can read: Attack Discovery uses the same LLM connectors as AI Assistant. Does this mean that Attack Discovery's AI capabilities rely on your AI Assistant's config?
  • link not only to features but also relevant configuration documentation if necessary, and pricing. We know that pricing depends on the connector/model used. That's on users to know if they configure their own. But by default we have the Elastic Managed LLM enabled, which costs are controlled by Elastic and are documented per solution on our pricing pages
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@benironside thank you for kicking off this PR. This is clearly a cross-team effort so if you can look after the Security piece of it on this page, that's great. In the meantime, @mdbirnstiehl @szabosteve @leemthompo can you help make these changes for your respective areas?

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---
navigation_title: AI-powered features
applies_to:
stack: ga
serverless: ga
products:
- id: kibana
- id: observability
- id: security
- id: cloud-serverless
---

# AI-powered features

AI is built into many parts of the {{stack}}. This page describes Elastic's AI-powered features, organized by solution, and provides links to more detailed information about each of them.

To learn about enabling and disabling these features in your deployment, refer to [](/explore-analyze/ai-features/manage-access-to-ai-assistant.md).

For pricing information, refer to [pricing](https://www.elastic.co/pricing).

## Requirements

- To use Elastic's AI-powered features, you need an appropriate license and feature tier. These vary by solution and feature. Refer to each feature's documentation to learn more.
- Most features require at least one working LLM connector. To learn about setting up large language model (LLM) connectors used by AI-powered features, refer to [](/solutions/security/ai/set-up-connectors-for-large-language-models-llm.md).


## AI-powered features in {{es}}

### Agent builder

```{applies_to}
serverless:
elasticsearch: preview
observability: unavailable
security: unavailable
```

[Agent Builder](/solutions/search/elastic-agent-builder.md) enables you to create AI agents that can interact with your Elasticsearch data, run queries, and provide intelligent responses. It provides a complete framework for building conversational AI experiences on top of your search infrastructure.

### AI assistant
```{applies_to}
stack:
serverless:
```

[](/solutions/observability/observability-ai-assistant.md) helps you understand, analyze, and interact with your Elastic data throughout {{kib}}. It provides a chat interface where you can ask questions about the {{stack}} and your data, and provides contextual insights throughout {{kib}} that explain errors and messages and suggest remediation steps.

### Elastic inference
```{applies_to}
stack:
serverless:
```
[Elastic Inference](/explore-analyze/elastic-inference.md) helps you use machine learning models to make predictions or enact operations — such as text embedding, or reranking - on your data.

To learn more, refer to:

- [Elastic Inference Service (EIS)](/explore-analyze/elastic-inference/eis.md): a managed service that runs inference outside your cluster resources.
- [The inference API](/explore-analyze/elastic-inference/inference-api.md): a general-purpose API that enables you to run inference using EIS, your own models, or third-party services.

### Natural language processing
```{applies_to}
stack:
serverless:
```
Natural Language Processing (NLP) allows you to analyze natural language data and make predictions.

Elastic offers a range of [built-in NLP models](/explore-analyze/machine-learning/nlp/ml-nlp-built-in-models.md) such as the Elastic-trained [ELSER](/explore-analyze/machine-learning/nlp/ml-nlp-elser.md). You can also [deploy custom models](/explore-analyze/machine-learning/nlp/ml-nlp-overview.md).

### AI-powered search
```{applies_to}
stack:
serverless:
```

[AI-powered search](/solutions/search/ai-search/ai-search.md) helps you find data based on intent and contextual meaning using vector search technology, which uses machine learning models to capture meaning in content.

Depending on your team's technical expertise and requirements, you can choose from two broad paths:

- For a minimal configuration, managed workflow use [semantic_text](https://www.elastic.co/docs/solutions/search/semantic-search/semantic-search-semantic-text)
- For more control over the implementation details, implement dense or sparse [vector search](https://www.elastic.co/docs/solutions/search/vector)

### Hybrid search
```{applies_to}
stack:
serverless:
```
[Hybrid search](/solutions/search/hybrid-search.md) combines traditional full-text search with AI-powered search for more powerful search experiences that serve a wider range of user needs.

### Playground
```{applies_to}
stack: preview 9.0, beta 9.1
serverless: beta
```

[Playground](/solutions/search/rag/playground.md) enables you to use large language models (LLMs) to understand, explore, and analyze your {{es}} data using retrieval augmented generation (RAG), via a chat interface. Playground is also very useful for testing and debugging your {{es}} queries, using the [retrievers](/solutions/search/retrievers-overview.md) syntax with the `_search` endpoint.

### Model context protocol
```{applies_to}
stack:
serverless:
```

The [Model Context Protocol (MCP)](/solutions/search/mcp.md) lets you connect AI agents and assistants to your {{es}} data to enable natural language interactions with your indices.


## AI-powered features in {{observability}}

### AI assistant
```{applies_to}
stack:
serverless:
```

[](/solutions/observability/observability-ai-assistant.md) helps you understand, analyze, and interact with your Elastic data throughout {{kib}}. It provides a chat interface where you can ask questions about the {{stack}} and your data, and provides [contextual insights](/solutions/observability/observability-ai-assistant.md#obs-ai-prompts) throughout {{kib}} that explain errors and messages and suggest remediation steps.

### Streams
```{applies_to}
serverless: ga
stack: preview 9.1, ga 9.2
```

[Streams](/solutions/observability/streams/streams.md) provides a single, centralized UI within Kibana that streamlines common tasks like extracting fields, setting data retention, and routing data, so you don't need to use multiple applications or manually configure underlying Elasticsearch components. Streams incorporates AI in the following ways:

#### Generate significant events with AI
```{applies_to}
serverless: ga
stack: preview 9.1, ga 9.2
```
[Significant Events](/solutions/observability/streams/management/significant-events.md) periodically runs a query on your stream to find important events. These can include error messages, exceptions, and other relevant log messages. You can use AI to suggest queries based on your data.

#### Generate Grok patterns
```{applies_to}
serverless: ga
stack: preview 9.1, ga 9.2
```
You can [generate Grok patterns](/solutions/observability/streams/management/extract/grok.md#streams-grok-patterns) to parse your data using AI instead of writing them by hand.

#### Generate partition suggestions
```{applies_to}
serverless: preview
stack: preview 9.2
```
[Partitioning](/solutions/observability/streams/management/partitioning.md) helps you organize log data into meaningful child streams within a wired stream. You can let AI suggest logical groupings based on your data, which you can review and accept.

#### Generate stream descriptions and feature identification
```{applies_to}
serverless: ga
stack: preview 9.1, ga 9.2
```
On the Streams [advanced settings](/solutions/observability/streams/management/advanced.md) tab, you can use AI to generate your [stream description](/solutions/observability/streams/management/advanced.md#streams-advanced-description) and [feature identification](/solutions/observability/streams/management/advanced.md#streams-advanced-features) that AI features like significant events use when generating suggestions.

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I thought of one other AI component to streams, you can also partition wired streams based on AI suggestions. More info here. https://www.elastic.co/docs/solutions/observability/streams/management/partitioning. If you want some assistance with writing up the blurbs about these, I can help tomorrow.

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Yeah that would be great! I am pretty much in the dark on this topic :D

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Feel free to make whatever edits you see fit

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I added the Partitioning description and added a little bit to the other descriptions.

## AI-powered features in {{elastic-sec}}

### AI Assistant for Security
```{applies_to}
stack: all
serverless:
security: all
```

[Elastic AI Assistant for Security](/solutions/security/ai/ai-assistant.md) helps you interact with your {{elastic-sec}} data and assists with tasks such as alert investigation, incident response, and query generation. It provides a chat interface where you can ask questions about the {{stack}} and your data, and provides contextual insights throughout {{kib}} that explain errors and messages and suggest remediation steps.

### Attack Discovery
```{applies_to}
stack: ga
serverless:
security: ga
```

[Attack Discovery](/solutions/security/ai/attack-discovery.md) leverages large language models (LLMs) to analyze alerts in your environment and identify threats. Each "discovery" represents a potential attack and describes relationships among multiple alerts to tell you which users and hosts are involved, how alerts correspond to the MITRE ATT&CK matrix, and which threat actor might be responsible. This can help make the most of each security analyst’s time, fight alert fatigue, and reduce your mean time to respond.

### Automatic Migration

[Automatic Migration](/solutions/security/get-started/automatic-migration.md) helps you quickly migrate Splunk assets to {{elastic-sec}}. The following asset types are supported:

* {applies_to}`stack: preview 9.0, ga 9.1` {applies_to}`serverless: ga` Splunk rules
* {applies_to}`stack: preview 9.2` {applies_to}`serverless: preview` Splunk dashboards

### Automatic Import
```{applies_to}
stack: ga
serverless:
security: ga
```

[Automatic Import](/solutions/security/get-started/automatic-import.md) helps you quickly parse, ingest, and create ECS mappings for data from sources that don’t yet have prebuilt Elastic integrations. This can accelerate your migration to {{elastic-sec}}, and help you quickly add new data sources to an existing SIEM solution in {{elastic-sec}}.

### Automatic Troubleshooting
```{applies_to}
stack: ga 9.2, preview 9.0
serverless:
security: ga
```
[Automatic troubleshooting](/solutions/security/manage-elastic-defend/automatic-troubleshooting.md) helps you identify and resolve issues that could prevent {{elastic-defend}} from working as intended. It provides actionable insights into the following common problem areas:

* {applies_to}`stack: ga 9.2` {applies_to}`serverless: ga` **Policy responses**: Detect warnings or failures in {{elastic-defend}}’s integration policies.
* **Third-party antivirus (AV) software**: Identify installed third-party antivirus (AV) products that may conflict with {{elastic-defend}}.

This helps you resolve configuration errors, address incompatibilities, and ensure that your hosts remain protected.
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- file: scripting/painless-lab.md
- file: scripting/modules-scripting-expression.md
- file: scripting/modules-scripting-engine.md

- file: ai-assistant.md
- file: manage-access-to-ai-assistant.md
- file: scripting/painless-lab.md
- file: ai-features/ai-features.md
children:
- file: ai-features/ai-assistant.md
- file: ai-features/manage-access-to-ai-assistant.md
- file: discover.md
children:
- file: discover/discover-get-started.md
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# Remote cluster settings moved to reference: https://github.com/elastic/docs-content/issues/579
'deploy-manage/remote-clusters/remote-clusters-settings.md': 'elasticsearch://reference/elasticsearch/configuration-reference/remote-clusters.md'

# Moved explore-analyze AI assistant content into a subfolder (docs-content-internal/issues/455)
'explore-analyze/manage-access-to-ai-assistant.md': 'explore-analyze/ai-features/manage-access-to-ai-assistant.md'
'explore-analyze/ai-assistant.md': 'explore-analyze/ai-features/ai-assistant.md'

# Related to https://github.com/elastic/docs-content/pull/3685
'deploy-manage/monitor/autoops/cc-cloud-connect-autoops-faq.md': 'deploy-manage/monitor/autoops/ec-autoops-faq.md'

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serverless: ga
```

The [**GenAI settings**](/explore-analyze/manage-access-to-ai-assistant.md) page allows you to:
The [**GenAI settings**](/explore-analyze/ai-features/manage-access-to-ai-assistant.md) page allows you to:

- Manage which AI connectors are available in your environment.
- Enable or disable AI Assistant and other AI-powered features in your environment.
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navigation_title: AI Assistant
---

# AI Assistant for {{elastic-sec}}
# Elastic AI Assistant for Security

The Elastic AI Assistant utilizes generative AI to bolster your cybersecurity operations team. It allows users to interact with {{elastic-sec}} for tasks such as alert investigation, incident response, and query generation or conversation using natural language and much more.
Elastic AI Assistant for Security helps you interact with your {{elastic-sec}} data and assists with tasks such as alert investigation, incident response, and query generation. It provides a chat interface where you can ask questions about the {{stack}} and your data, and provides contextual insights throughout {{kib}} that explain errors and messages and suggest remediation steps.

:::{image} /solutions/images/security-assistant-basic-view.png
:alt: Image of AI Assistant chat window
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:::

::::{warning}
The Elastic AI Assistant is designed to enhance your analysis with smart dialogues. Its capabilities are still developing. Users should exercise caution as the quality of its responses might vary. Your insights and feedback will help us improve this feature. Always cross-verify AI-generated advice for accuracy.
The Elastic AI Assistant is designed to enhance your analysis with smart dialogues. Its capabilities are still developing. You should exercise caution as the quality of its responses might vary. Your insights and feedback will help us improve this feature. Always cross-verify AI-generated advice for accuracy.
::::

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serverless: ga
```

The [**GenAI settings**](/explore-analyze/manage-access-to-ai-assistant.md) page allows you to:
The [**GenAI settings**](/explore-analyze/ai-features/manage-access-to-ai-assistant.md) page allows you to:

- Manage which AI connectors are available in your environment.
- Enable or disable AI Assistant and other AI-powered features in your environment.
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# Automatic troubleshooting

Automatic troubleshooting helps you identify and resolve issues that could prevent {{elastic-defend}} from working as intended. This feature provides actionable insights into the following common problem areas:
Automatic troubleshooting helps you identify and resolve issues that could prevent {{elastic-defend}} from working as intended. It provides actionable insights into the following common problem areas:

* {applies_to}`stack: ga 9.2` {applies_to}`serverless: ga` **Policy responses**: Detect warnings or failures in {{elastic-defend}}’s integration policies.
* **Third-party antivirus (AV) software**: Identify installed third-party antivirus (AV) products that may conflict with {{elastic-defend}}.

With these checks, you can resolve configuration errors, address incompatibilities, and ensure that your hosts remain protected.
This helps you resolve configuration errors, address incompatibilities, and ensure that your hosts remain protected.

::::{admonition} Requirements
To use this feature, you need:
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