# \#elastic-ai-assistant

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/tag/elastic-ai-assistant/136.md

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## [A2A server authentication](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/a2a-server-authentication/390030)

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**Author:** [@venkatkumar229](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/venkatkumar229)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [September 2, 2026, 5:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/a2a-server-authentication/390030 "2026-09-02T17:03:35Z")

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Hi Team, We have created a Custom AI Agent in Elasticsearch and are planning to access it from an external application through the A2A (Agent-to-Agent) Server. Currently, we understand that authentication to the A2A Se…

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## [Set Custom Agent as Default in Agent Selection](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/set-custom-agent-as-default-in-agent-selection/389809)

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**Author:** [@venkatkumar229](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/venkatkumar229)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [August 20, 2026, 8:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/set-custom-agent-as-default-in-agent-selection/389809 "2026-08-20T20:42:10Z")

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Hi Elastic Team, We have created a custom agent using Elastic Agent Builder. Currently, when a user opens the Agent Builder chat, the Agent Selection is automatically set to “Elastic AI Agent”. Our requirement is to m…

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## [AI chat history retention](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ai-chat-history-retention/389614)

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**Author:** [@venkatkumar229](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/venkatkumar229)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [August 14, 2026, 11:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ai-chat-history-retention/389614 "2026-08-14T11:03:30Z")

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Hi Team, Could you please confirm how long the Elastic AI Assistant / Agent Builder chat history is retained by default? Is there any default retention period (e.g., 30/60/90 days), and can this retention period be con…

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## [Can we send a report generated by AI assistance from AI chat](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-we-send-a-report-generated-by-ai-assistance-from-ai-chat/386896)

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**Author:** [@venkatkumar229](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/venkatkumar229)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [June 18, 2026, 7:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-we-send-a-report-generated-by-ai-assistance-from-ai-chat/386896 "2026-06-18T19:42:24Z")

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Hi Team, We are evaluating the Elastic AI Assistant capabilities and would like to understand its support for automated reporting. Could you please confirm whether the Elastic AI Assistant can: Automatically generat…

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## [Define proxy for AI connector](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/define-proxy-for-ai-connector/386278)

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**Author:** [@hairless\_mess](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/hairless_mess)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [May 11, 2026, 1:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/define-proxy-for-ai-connector/386278 "2026-05-11T13:44:05Z")

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Hi everyone! I'm trying to add an AI connector and I'm running into a connection problem because the connector can't reach the AI solution as it needs to pass through our proxy. Is there a way to add a proxy configuratio…

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## [AI assistant data access restrictions](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ai-assistant-data-access-restrictions/386002)

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**Author:** [@venkatkumar229](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/venkatkumar229)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [May 6, 2026, 5:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ai-assistant-data-access-restrictions/386002 "2026-05-06T05:47:33Z")

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We are seeking clarification regarding data access restrictions when using the Elastic AI Assistant. We are planning to enable the Elastic AI Assistant feature for our users. Before proceeding, we would like to understa…

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## [ELK Kibana 9.3.1 How do we disable the AI Assistant?](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-kibana-9-3-1-how-do-we-disable-the-ai-assistant/385822)

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**Author:** [@kbujold\_wr](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kbujold_wr)\
**Replies:** 7\
**Last updated:** [April 12, 2026, 6:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-kibana-9-3-1-how-do-we-disable-the-ai-assistant/385822 "2026-04-12T06:02:46Z")

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How can we disable the AI Assistant button on the top bar?

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## [AI Assistant - Need to add a new LLM to Elastic](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ai-assistant-need-to-add-a-new-llm-to-elastic/385506)

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**Author:** [@venkatkumar229](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/venkatkumar229)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [March 18, 2026, 1:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ai-assistant-need-to-add-a-new-llm-to-elastic/385506 "2026-03-18T13:02:47Z")

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Hi Team, We are currently using Elasticsearch within our ELK platform to reconcile data received from multiple source systems. This is implemented using Elasticsearch transforms, where we compare data across multiple sy…

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## [📢 Announcing: Kibana MCP Server - Control Kibana using Claude AI](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/announcing-kibana-mcp-server-control-kibana-using-claude-ai/377757)

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**Author:** [@azmatjan139](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/azmatjan139)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [February 12, 2026, 12:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/announcing-kibana-mcp-server-control-kibana-using-claude-ai/377757 "2026-02-12T00:16:33Z")

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Project Introduction I'm excited to announce Kibana MCP Server, a new open-source implementation based on the Model Context Protocol (MCP) that allows any MCP-compatible AI client (such as Claude Desktop) to access and m…

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## [Is a Webhook Connector possible to use for Elastic Assistant](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-a-webhook-connector-possible-to-use-for-elastic-assistant/384428)

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**Author:** [@robert.bonagura](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/robert.bonagura)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [January 7, 2026, 10:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-a-webhook-connector-possible-to-use-for-elastic-assistant/384428 "2026-01-07T22:44:25Z")

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My enterprise does not hand out direct access to LLM API endpoints, all LLM API access is proxied through an internal tool to govern and manage LLM API calls at scale. That being said, if I do not have direct access to …

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## [Disable AI Assistant in Kibana 9.2.1](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-ai-assistant-in-kibana-9-2-1/383550)

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**Author:** [@cisupport-zkb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cisupport-zkb)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [November 20, 2025, 1:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-ai-assistant-in-kibana-9-2-1/383550 "2025-11-20T13:46:05Z")

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Hi Everyone, I want to disable the AI Assistent in Kibana 9.2.1, how to do that? I noticed on the documentation Manage access to AI features | Elastic Docs that can be done in GenAI Settings page, but I don’t find it (a…

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## [AI Assistant with local LLM](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ai-assistant-with-local-llm/383091)

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**Author:** [@arcsons](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/arcsons)\
**Replies:** 8\
**Last updated:** [November 6, 2025, 9:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ai-assistant-with-local-llm/383091 "2025-11-06T21:21:25Z")

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Hi, I’m trying to setup an AI connector for my local LLM. I have ngnix as reverse proxy with an API key. $ curl -s http://x.x.x.x:8080/api/chat -H "Authorization: $OKEY" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{ …

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## [Questions about OpenAI connectors](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/questions-about-openai-connectors/381367)

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**Author:** [@willemdh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/willemdh)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [September 3, 2025, 5:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/questions-about-openai-connectors/381367 "2025-09-03T17:49:02Z")

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Hello, Today I was playing with OpenAI connector settings in Elastic Security Serverless and I have some questions for which I didn’t found an answer in the documentation. What connector to use? “OpenAI” =\> OpenAI co…

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## [Elastic AI Assistant - Function Calls not working from separately hosted Ollama instance running in Docker](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-ai-assistant-function-calls-not-working-from-separately-hosted-ollama-instance-running-in-docker/380734)

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**Author:** [@BBQigniter](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/BBQigniter)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [August 4, 2025, 6:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-ai-assistant-function-calls-not-working-from-separately-hosted-ollama-instance-running-in-docker/380734 "2025-08-04T18:20:54Z")

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Hello, for testing purposes I've set up an ECK on a home-server. On the same server there also runs an Ollama instance serving the model hf.co/unsloth/Mistral-Small-3.2-24B-Instruct-2506-GGUF:Q4\_K\_XL. Because I have no …

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## [Elastic AI assistant - Dashboard recommendations](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-ai-assistant-dashboard-recommendations/379075)

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**Author:** [@erikg](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/erikg)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [June 10, 2025, 9:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-ai-assistant-dashboard-recommendations/379075 "2025-06-10T21:48:19Z")

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Does Elastic AI assistant recommend you dashboards? For example, we are pretty good with filling in the description of the dashboard in Kibana, can elastic ai assistant read that and recommend me dashboards?

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## [Data stream default to true](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/data-stream-default-to-true/377154)

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**Author:** [@opensourcengineer](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/opensourcengineer)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [April 17, 2025, 12:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/data-stream-default-to-true/377154 "2025-04-17T12:59:20Z")

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we are using model qwen2.5 model as a connector and we tested the model and its running fine. when we are asking AI assistant , the payload data is going to LMstudio with stream:true. i would like to change it to "stream…

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## [Elastic OpenAI Connector Local LLM](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-openai-connector-local-llm/375228)

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**Author:** [@marmai16](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/marmai16)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [March 28, 2025, 6:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-openai-connector-local-llm/375228 "2025-03-28T18:53:58Z")

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Hello everyone, i have an elastic instance where i try to set up a custom OpenAI connector to a machine with a locally hosted LLM to use within the AI Assistant. Since 8.17 it is possible to use an OpenAI compatible API…

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## [Error when adding items to observability ai assistant knowledge base](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-when-adding-items-to-observability-ai-assistant-knowledge-base/374715)

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**Author:** [@flalar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/flalar)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [March 19, 2025, 9:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-when-adding-items-to-observability-ai-assistant-knowledge-base/374715 "2025-03-19T09:05:18Z")

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We recently upgraded from 8.14.3 to 8.17.2 to make full use of the \*\*AI Assistant, but we're running into an issue again. :weary: When trying to add items to the knowledge base via the Knowledge Base settings page, we g…

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## [AI assistant giving errors](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ai-assistant-giving-errors/373285)

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**Author:** [@flalar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/flalar)\
**Replies:** 8\
**Last updated:** [February 19, 2025, 3:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ai-assistant-giving-errors/373285 "2025-02-19T15:21:07Z")

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We've set up the Azure OpenAI connector and things are looking good when testing the connector. We also see requests comming into the model on the Azure side. However we get an error in Kibana saying Failed to load res…

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## [Problems with AI Assistant AWS Bedrock inside Elastic Cloud Security](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problems-with-ai-assistant-aws-bedrock-inside-elastic-cloud-security/372249)

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**Author:** [@Illya\_Bjazevic](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Illya_Bjazevic)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [December 20, 2024, 12:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problems-with-ai-assistant-aws-bedrock-inside-elastic-cloud-security/372249 "2024-12-20T00:07:07Z")

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AWS Bedwork is passing the test inside Elastic Cloud but it is not working. Any idea about how can I solve this problem? When I try to use AWS Bedrock I get the following error: ActionsClient BedrockRuntimeClient: ac…

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## [Does Elastic AI Assistant work on the free trial of Elastic Cloud?](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-elastic-ai-assistant-work-on-the-free-trial-of-elastic-cloud/371794)

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**Author:** [@Illya\_Bjazevic](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Illya_Bjazevic)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [December 11, 2024, 1:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-elastic-ai-assistant-work-on-the-free-trial-of-elastic-cloud/371794 "2024-12-11T01:08:06Z")

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I am getting an error that Elastic AI Assistant cannot connect to OpenAI. However, I created a new secret key there. The Elastic website says that an Enterprise subscription is required. Please see this link: AI Assista…

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## [Streaming in ai assistant](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/streaming-in-ai-assistant/370650)

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**Author:** [@Vajihe\_Nikkhah](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Vajihe_Nikkhah)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [November 17, 2024, 10:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/streaming-in-ai-assistant/370650 "2024-11-17T10:10:47Z")

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I connected elastic ai assistant to my local llm. when I active streaming control in ai assistant settings, this error is shown: Error: Response from LLM API is empty or undefined. I check the request which is sent to l…

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## [Has any one able to configure Local LLM like Ollama and able to connect to Kibana](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/has-any-one-able-to-configure-local-llm-like-ollama-and-able-to-connect-to-kibana/368272)

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**Author:** [@seshug](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/seshug)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [October 7, 2024, 3:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/has-any-one-able-to-configure-local-llm-like-ollama-and-able-to-connect-to-kibana/368272 "2024-10-07T15:39:06Z")

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Context: We have configured Ollama and configured Nginx as a reverse proxy to listen on port 443 and route to http://127.0.0.1:11434 We have added a certificate trusted our company CA and we are able to connect to it…

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## [Every time I am trying to access the AI Assistant on Kibana I am getting an error](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/every-time-i-am-trying-to-access-the-ai-assistant-on-kibana-i-am-getting-an-error/365152)

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**Author:** [@Mansi\_Bora](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mansi_Bora)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [August 19, 2024, 2:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/every-time-i-am-trying-to-access-the-ai-assistant-on-kibana-i-am-getting-an-error/365152 "2024-08-19T14:51:55Z")

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I have even deployed .elser\_model\_2\_linux-x86\_64 model Conversation not found Could not find a conversation with id 98e6dcea-e59f-49c6-ba42-e18bbc07d499. Make sure the conversation exists and you have access to it.

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## [Search Connector for AI Assistant Knowledge Base](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-connector-for-ai-assistant-knowledge-base/363112)

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**Author:** [@aisyaharifin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/aisyaharifin)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [July 18, 2024, 1:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-connector-for-ai-assistant-knowledge-base/363112 "2024-07-18T01:34:47Z")

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Hi Elastic, I want to integrate my Search Connector specifically Confluence Connector with my AI Assistant that we configure in Observability. I saw that we could input the knowledge base from the Search Connector. Ho…

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## [Elastic AI Assistant Custom Actions Documentation](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-ai-assistant-custom-actions-documentation/357942)

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**Author:** [@willemdh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/willemdh)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [June 19, 2024, 8:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-ai-assistant-custom-actions-documentation/357942 "2024-06-19T20:47:31Z")

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Hello all, I've been playing around with the Elastic AI Assistant lately (8.12.2). I noticed that in the APM / Observability it's able to generate graphs, but not all kind of graphs. Sometimes it wasn't clear what exact…

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## [Elastic AI Assistant Threshold Rule Fields kibana.alert.new\_terms](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-ai-assistant-threshold-rule-fields-kibana-alert-new-terms/360079)

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**Author:** [@willemdh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/willemdh)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [June 6, 2024, 5:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-ai-assistant-threshold-rule-fields-kibana-alert-new-terms/360079 "2024-06-06T17:54:04Z")

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Hello, Question about adding alerts for threshold rules. Am I correct assuming that the field kibana.alert.new\_terms and it's value cannot be added to the alert data sent as context? Is there some way to always add…

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## [Generative AI for Search](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/generative-ai-for-search/344675)

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**Author:** [@sivagurlinka](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sivagurlinka)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [October 9, 2023, 7:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/generative-ai-for-search/344675 "2023-10-09T19:31:28Z")

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Hi, We are trying to understand Generative AI features/capabilities Elastic can offer. We are working on a semantic search use cases where we are aware of ELSER and Third party dense vector models. We would like to kno…
