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AI Agent is a technical preview chat experience designed to replace Elastic Assistant for Observability & Search and Elastic Assistant for Security.
AI Agent uses Elastic's Agent Builder platform. It lets you design your own purpose-built agents and enables a more cohesive AI chat experience across all Elastic's products. You can create specific agents for use in different workflows, and give them precise access to the tools and data they need.
While AI Agent is in technical preview, you may have to opt in to enable it. This behavior varies by solution:
- Observability and Elastic Security: Each solution's classic AI Assistant remains the default chat experience.
- Elasticsearch: AI Agent is the default chat experience.
To enable AI Agent, use the global search field to find GenAI Settings.
Some functionality supported by Elastic's AI Assistants is not supported by AI Agents. The differences vary by solution.
AI Agent for Elastic Security provides a similar experience to AI Assistant for Security at a high level, but with a number of differences.
The following AI Assistant for Security features are not supported in AI Agent:
- Knowledge Base
- Data anonymization
- Time awareness
- Chat sharing
- Citations
- Audit logging
- Quick prompts
Also, AI Agent chats do not show previews of data you attach to a message, such as Alerts and Attacks.