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title: Project settings
description: Elastic Cloud Serverless projects are fully managed and automatically scaled by Elastic. You have the option of Elasticsearch Serverless, Observability,...
url: https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/docs-content/pull/4236/deploy-manage/deploy/elastic-cloud/project-settings
products:
  - Elastic Cloud Serverless
---

# Project settings
Elastic Cloud Serverless projects are fully managed and automatically scaled by Elastic. You have the option of Elasticsearch Serverless, Observability, or Elastic Security for your project.
Your project’s performance and general data retention are controlled by the **Search AI Lake settings**. To manage these settings:
1. Navigate to [cloud.elastic.co](https://cloud.elastic.co/).
2. Log in to your Elastic Cloud account.
3. Select your project from the **Serverless projects** panel and click **Manage**.

Additionally, there are [features and add-ons](#project-features-add-ons) available for security that you can configure.

## Search AI Lake settings

Once ingested, your data is stored in cost-efficient, general storage. A cache layer is available on top of the general storage for recent and frequently queried data that provides faster search speed. Data in this cache layer is considered **search-ready**.
Together, these data storage layers form your project’s **Search AI Lake**.
The total volume of search-ready data is the sum of the following:
1. The volume of non-time series project data
2. The volume of time series project data included in the Search Boost Window

<note>
  Time series data refers to any document in standard indices or data streams that includes the `@timestamp` field. This field must be present for data to be subject to the Search Boost Window setting.
</note>

Each project type offers different settings that let you adjust the performance and volume of search-ready data, as well as the features available in your projects.
The documentation in this section describes shared capabilities that are available in multiple solutions. These settings allow you to tune your project settings not all functionality as you would have with a self-managed deployment.


| Setting                                    | Description                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 | Project Type                       |
|--------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|------------------------------------|
| **Search Power**Search Power               | Search Power controls the speed of searches against your data. With Search Power, you can improve search performance by adding more resources for querying, or you can reduce provisioned resources to cut costs. Choose from three Search Power settings:**On-demand:**On-demand: Autoscales based on data and search load, with a lower minimum baseline for resource use. This flexibility results in more variable query latency and reduced maximum throughput.**Performant:**Performant: Delivers consistently low latency and autoscales to accommodate moderately high query throughput.**High-throughput:**High-throughput: Optimized for high-throughput scenarios, autoscaling to maintain query latency even at very high query volumes.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        | Elasticsearch                      |
| **Search Boost Window**Search Boost Window | Non-time series data is always considered search-ready. The **Search Boost Window**Search Boost Window determines the volume of time series project data that will be considered search-ready.Increasing the window results in a bigger portion of time series project data included in the total search-ready data volume.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 | Elasticsearch                      |
| **Data Retention**Data Retention           | Data retention policies determine how long your project data is retained.In Elastic Cloud Serverless data retention policies are configured through [data streams](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/docs-content/pull/4236/manage-data/lifecycle/data-stream)data streams and you can [specify different retention periods](/elastic/docs-content/pull/4236/manage-data/lifecycle/data-stream/tutorial-update-existing-data-stream#set-lifecycle)specify different retention periods for specific data streams in your project. Elastic Security has to additional configuration settings that can be configured to manage your data retention.**Maximum data retention period**Maximum data retention periodWhen enabled, this setting determines the maximum length of time that data can be retained in any data streams of this project.Editing this setting replaces the data retention set for all data streams of the project that have a longer data retention defined. Data older than the new maximum retention period that you set is permanently deleted. **Default data retention period**Default data retention periodWhen enabled, this setting determines the default retention period that is automatically applied to all data streams in your project that do not have a custom retention period already set. | ElasticsearchObservabilitySecurity |
| **Project features**Project features       | Controls [feature tiers and add-on options](#project-features-add-ons)feature tiers and add-on options for your Elastic Security project.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   | Security                           |


## Project features and add-ons

```yaml
serverless:
  security:
  observability:
```


### Elastic Security project features

For Elastic Security projects, edit the **Project features** to select a feature tier and enable add-on options for specific use cases.

| Feature tier                                                   | Description and add-ons                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             |
|----------------------------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| **Elastic AI SOC Engine (EASE)**Elastic AI SOC Engine (EASE)   | A package of AI-powered tools meant to work with and enhance your existing SOC platforms: triage and correlate alerts from any platform using Attack Discovery, get realtime recommendations and assistance from AI Assistant, and share insights with your other tools.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            |
| **Security Analytics Essentials**Security Analytics Essentials | A suite of security analytics, detections, investigations, and collaboration tools. Does not include AI-powered tools. Allows these add-ons:* **Endpoint Protection Essentials**Endpoint Protection Essentials: endpoint protections with Elastic Defend.* **Cloud Protection Essentials**Cloud Protection Essentials: Cloud native security features.                                                                                                                                                                                                                              |
| **Security Analytics Complete**Security Analytics Complete     | Everything in **Security Analytics Essentials**Security Analytics Essentials and **EASE**EASE, plus advanced features such as entity analytics, threat intelligence, and more. Allows these add-ons:* **Endpoint Protection Complete**Endpoint Protection Complete: Everything in **Endpoint Protection Essentials**Endpoint Protection Essentials plus advanced endpoint detection and response features.* **Cloud Protection Complete**Cloud Protection Complete: Everything in **Cloud Protection Essentials**Cloud Protection Essentials plus advanced cloud security features. |


#### Downgrading the feature tier

<note>
  You cannot downgrade to EASE from any other feature tier. You can upgrade from EASE to other tiers.
</note>

When you downgrade your Security project features selection from **Security Analytics Complete** to **Security Analytics Essentials**, the following features become unavailable:
- All Entity Analytics features
- The ability to use certain entity analytics-related integration packages, such as:
  - Data Exfiltration detection
- Lateral Movement detection
- Living off the Land Attack detection
- Intelligence Indicators page
- External rule action connectors
- Case connectors
- Endpoint response actions history
- Endpoint host isolation exceptions
- AI Assistant
- Attack discovery

And, the following data may be permanently deleted:
- AI Assistant conversation history
- AI Assistant settings
- Entity Analytics user and host risk scores
- Entity Analytics asset criticality information
- Detection rule external connector settings
- Detection rule response action settings


### Elastic Observability Serverless project features

For Elastic Observability Serverless projects, edit the **Project features** to select a feature tier.

| Feature tier                                                   | Description                                                                                 |
|----------------------------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| **Observability Logs Essentials**Observability Logs Essentials | Includes everything you need to store and analyze logs at scale.                            |
| **Observability Complete**Observability Complete               | Adds full-stack observability capabilities to monitor cloud-native and hybrid environments. |

For a full feature comparison, upgrading instructions, and more, refer to [Elastic Observability Serverless feature tiers](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/docs-content/pull/4236/solutions/observability/observability-serverless-feature-tiers).