AI chat experiences

AI chat can help with a wide range of tasks throughout Kibana, such as helping to answer questions about your data, suggesting next steps, and explaining how to use Elastic's software.

There are two AI chat experiences which you can choose from:

The Elastic Stack includes Elastic's core products such as Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, and Beats. Availability Preview since 9.3 This functionality is in technical preview and is ready for evaluation. Use with caution in production; it is not recommended for mission-critical workloads. Elastic will work to fix any issues, but features in technical preview are not subject to the support SLA of official GA features. Specific Support terms apply. Unless stated otherwise on the page, this functionality is available when your Elastic Stack is deployed on Elastic Cloud Hosted, Elastic Cloud Enterprise, Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes, and self-managed environments. This documentation corresponds to the latest patch available for each minor version. If you're not using the latest patch, check the release notes for changes. Elastic Cloud Serverless projects are autoscaled environments, fully managed by Elastic and available on Elastic Cloud. Availability Preview This functionality is in technical preview and is ready for evaluation. Use with caution in production; it is not recommended for mission-critical workloads. Elastic will work to fix any issues, but features in technical preview are not subject to the support SLA of official GA features. Specific Support terms apply. Serverless interfaces and procedures might differ from classic Elastic Stack deployments. AI Agent: Powered by Elastic Agent Builder, this chat experience lets you create custom agents for specific tasks, with specialized tools, and provides a unified chat experience across all of Kibana.
AI Assistant: Elastic's original AI chat, AI Assistant offers features like chat sharing, data anonymization, and knowledge base that are not yet present in Agent Builder. The AI Assistant for Observability and Elasticsearch operates independently from the AI Assistant for Security.

If Kibana cannot use Elastic's public knowledge base artifact host—for example in air-gapped or restricted networks—refer to Host a knowledge base artifact repo for AI Assistant.

Refer to Configure access to LLMs for connectors and tested models. For Elastic Agent Builder, refer to Recommended models.

To compare them and learn how to switch between them, refer to Compare Agent Builder and AI Assistant.