﻿---
title: Switch to AI Agent
description: AI Agent is a technical preview chat experience designed to replace Elastic Assistant for Observability & Search and Elastic Assistant for Security. AI...
url: https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/docs-content/pull/4438/explore-analyze/ai-features/ai-chat-experiences/switch-to-ai-agent
products:
  - Elastic Cloud Serverless
  - Elastic Observability
  - Elastic Security
  - Kibana
---

# Switch to AI Agent
AI Agent is a technical preview chat experience designed to replace Elastic Assistant for Observability & Search and Elastic Assistant for Security.
AI Agent is built on Elastic's [Agent Builder](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/docs-content/pull/4438/solutions/search/elastic-agent-builder) platform. It enables a more cohesive AI chat experience across all Elastic's products, and lets you design your own purpose-built agents. You can create agents for use in different workflows, and give them precise access to the tools and data they need.

## Enable AI Agent

While AI Agent is in technical preview, depending which solution you're using you may have to opt in to enable it:
- **Observability and Elastic Security:** The existing AI Assistants remain the default chat experiences for Elastic.
- **Elasticsearch:** AI Agent is the default chat experience.

To enable AI Agent, use the [global search field](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/docs-content/pull/4438/explore-analyze/find-and-organize/find-apps-and-objects) to find [**GenAI Settings**](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/docs-content/pull/4438/explore-analyze/ai-features/manage-access-to-ai-assistant).

## Feature differences between AI Agent and AI Assistant

Some of the functionality supported by Elastic's AI Assistants is not supported by AI Agents. The differences vary by solution.

### Feature differences in Elastic Security

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**

In addition, AI Agent chats won't show a preview of data you attach to a message, such as Alerts and Attacks.

### Feature differences in Elastic Observability