The Elastic AI Assistant utilizes generative AI to bolster your cybersecurity operations team. It allows users to interact with Elastic Security for tasks such as alert investigation, incident response, and query generation or conversion using natural language and much more.

AI Assistant can connect to multiple LLM providers so you can select the best model for your needs.

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Your data and AI Assistant

Elastic does not store or examine prompts or results used by AI Assistant, or use this data for model training. This includes anything you send the model, such as alert or event data, detection rule configurations, queries, and prompts. However, any data you provide to AI Assistant will be processed by the third-party large language model (LLM) provider you connected as part of AI Assistant setup.

Elastic does not control third-party tools, and assumes no responsibility or liability for their content, operation, or use, nor for any loss or damage that may arise from your using such tools. Please exercise caution when using AI tools with personal, sensitive, or confidential information. Any data you submit may be used by the provider for AI training or other purposes. There is no guarantee that the provider will keep any information you provide secure or confidential. You should familiarize yourself with the privacy practices and terms of use of any generative AI tools prior to use.

Set up AI Assistant

You must create a generative AI connector before you can use AI Assistant.

For more information about setting up generative AI connectors, refer to Connect to Amazon Bedrock, Connect to OpenAI, or Connect to Azure OpenAI.

Start chatting

To open AI Assistant, select the AI Assistant button in the top toolbar from anywhere in the Elastic Security app. You can also use the keyboard shortcut Cmd + ; (or Ctrl + ; on Windows).

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This opens the Welcome chat interface, where you can ask general questions about Elastic Security.

You can also chat with AI Assistant from several particular pages in Elastic Security where you can easily send context-specific data and prompts to AI Assistant.

• Alert details or Event details flyout: Click Chat while viewing the details of an alert or event.
• Rules page: Select one or more rules, then click the Chat button at the top right of the page.
• Data Quality dashboard: Select the Incompatible fields tab, then click Chat. (This is only available for fields marked red, indicating they’re incompatible).
• Timeline: Select the Security Assistant tab.

Interact with AI Assistant

Use these features to adjust and act on your conversations with AI Assistant:

• Select a system prompt at the beginning of a conversation to establish how detailed and technical you want AI Assistant's answers to be.

  

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  System prompts provide context to the model, informing its response. To create a custom system prompt, open the system prompts dropdown menu and click + Add new system prompt....

• Select a quick prompt at the bottom of the chat window to get help writing a prompt for a specific purpose, such as summarizing an alert or converting a query from a legacy SIEM to Elastic Security.

  

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  Quick prompt availability varies based on context — for example, the Alert summarization quick prompt appears when you open AI Assistant while viewing an alert. To customize existing quick prompts and create new ones, click Add Quick prompt.

• In an active conversation, you can use the inline actions that appear on messages to incorporate AI Assistant's responses into your workflows:

  • Add note to timeline (): Add the selected text to your currently active Timeline as a note.

  • Add to existing case (): Add a comment to an existing case using the selected text.

  • Copy to clipboard (): Copy the text to clipboard to paste elsewhere. Also helpful for resubmitting a previous prompt.

  • Add to timeline (): Add a filter or query to Timeline using the text. This button appears for particular queries in AI Assistant's responses.

    Tip

    Be sure to specify which language you'd like AI Assistant to use when writing a query. For example: "Can you generate an Event Query Language query to find four failed logins followed by a successful login?"

Configure AI Assistant

The Settings menu () allows you to configure default conversations, quick prompts, system prompts, and data anonymization.

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The Settings menu has the following tabs:

• Conversations: When you open AI Assistant from certain pages, such as Timeline or Alerts, it defaults to the relevant conversation type. Choose the system prompt for each conversation type, the connector, and model (if applicable). The Streaming setting controls whether AI Assistant's responses appear word-by-word (streamed), or as a complete block of text. Streaming is currently only available for OpenAI models.

• Quick Prompts: Modify existing quick prompts or create new ones. To create a new quick prompt, type a unique name in the Name field, then press enter. Under Prompt, enter or update the quick prompt's text. Under Contexts, select where the quick prompt should appear.

• System Prompts: Edit existing system prompts or create new ones. To create a new system prompt, type a unique name in the Name field, then press enter. Under Prompt, enter or update the system prompt's text.

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  To delete a custom prompt, open the Name drop-down menu, hover over the prompt you want to delete, and click the X that appears. You cannot delete the default prompts.

• Anonymization: Select fields to include as plaintext, to obfuscate, and to not send when you provide events to AI Assistant as context.

• Knowledge base: Provide additional context to AI Assistant so it can answer questions about ES|QL and alerts in your environment.

Anonymization

The Anonymization tab of the AI Assistant settings menu allows you to define default data anonymization behavior for events you send to AI Assistant. Fields with Allowed toggled on are included in events provided to AI Assistant. Allowed fields with Anonymized set to Yes are included, but with their values obfuscated.

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The Show anonymized toggle controls whether you see the obfuscated or plaintext versions of the fields you sent to AI Assistant. It doesn't control what gets obfuscated — that's determined by the anonymization settings. It also doesn't affect how event fields appear before being sent to AI Assistant. Instead, it controls how fields that were already sent and obfuscated appear to you.

When you include a particular event as context, such as an alert from the Alerts page, you can adjust anonymization behavior for the specific event. Be sure the anonymization behavior meets your specifications before sending a message with the event attached.

Knowlege base

The Knowledge base tab of the AI Assistant settings menu allows you to enable AI Assistant to answer questions about the Elastic Search Query Language ES|QL, and about alerts in your environment.

Knowledge base for ES|QL

When this feature is enabled, AI Assistant can help you write an ES|QL query for a particular use case, or answer general questions about ES|QL syntax and usage. To enable AI Assistant to answer questions about ES|QL:

• Enable the Elastic Learned Sparse EncodeR (ELSER). This model provides additional context to the third-party LLM. To learn more, refer to Configure ELSER.
• Initialize the knowledge base by clicking Initialize.
• Turn on the Knowledge Base option.
• Click Save. The knowledge base is now active. A quick prompt for ES|QL queries becomes available, which provides a good starting point for your ES|QL conversations and questions.

Knowledge base for alerts

When this feature is enabled, AI Assistant will receive multiple alerts as context for each of your prompts. It will receive alerts from the last 24 hours that have a status of open or acknowledged, ordered first by risk score, then by recency. Building block alerts are excluded. This enables it to answer questions about multiple alerts in your environment, rather than just the individual alerts you choose to include as context.

To enable RAG for alerts:

1. Turn on the Alerts setting.
2. Use the slider to select the number of alerts to send to AI Assistant.

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Get the most from your queries

Elastic AI Assistant helps you take full advantage of the Elastic Security platform to improve your security operations. 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.

To maximize its usefulness, consider using more detailed prompts or asking for additional information. For instance, after asking for an ES|QL query example, you could ask a follow-up question like, “Could you give me some other examples?” You can also ask for clarification or further exposition, for example "Please provide comments explaining the query you just gave."

In addition to practical advice, AI Assistant can offer conceptual advice, tips, and best practices for enhancing your security measures. You can ask it, for example:

• “How do I set up a machine learning job in Elastic Security to detect anomalies in network traffic volume over time?”
• “I need to monitor for unusual file creation patterns that could indicate ransomware activity. How would I construct this query using EQL?”