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= Search

The *Search* space in the {kib} UI contains the following GUI features:

* https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/enterprise-search/current/connectors.html[Connectors]
* https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/enterprise-search/current/crawler.html[Web crawler]
* <<playground,Playground>>
* https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/search-application-overview.html[Search Applications]
* https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/behavioral-analytics-overview.html[Behavioral Analytics]
* <<inference-endpoints,Inference Endpoints UI>>
* <<search-ai-assistant,AI Assistant for Search>>
* Dev Tools <<console-kibana, Console>>

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== Docs and release notes

The Search solution and use case is made up of many tools and features across the {stack}.
As a result, the release notes for your features of interest might live in different Elastic docs.
Use the following table to find links to the appropriate documentation, API references (if applicable), and release notes.

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| Name               | API reference           | Documentation         | Release notes

| Connectors
| {ref}/connector-apis.html[API reference]
| {ref}/es-connectors.html[Elastic Connectors]
| {ref}/es-connectors-release-notes.html[Elasticsearch guide]

| Web crawler
| N/A
| {enterprise-search-ref}/crawler.html[Documentation]
| {enterprise-search-ref}/changelog.html[Enterprise Search Guide]

| Playground
| N/A
| {kibana-ref}/playground.html[Documentation]
| {kibana-ref}/release-notes.html[Kibana guide]

| Search Applications
| {ref}/search-application-apis.html[API reference]
| {enterprise-search-ref}/app-search-workplace-search.html[Documentation]
| {ref}/es-release-notes.html[Elasticsearch guide]

| Behavioral Analytics
| {ref}/behavioral-analytics-apis.html[API reference]
| {ref}/behavioral-analytics-start.html[Documentation]
| {ref}/es-release-notes.html[Elasticsearch guide]

| Inference Endpoints
| {ref}/inference-apis.html[API reference]
| {kibana-ref}/inference-endpoints.html[Documentation]
| {ref}/es-release-notes.html[Elasticsearch guide]

| Console
| N/A
| {kibana-ref}/console-kibana.html[Documentation]
| {kibana-ref}/release-notes.html[Kibana guide]

| Search UI
| https://www.elastic.co/docs/current/search-ui/api/architecture[API reference]
| https://www.elastic.co/docs/current/search-ui[Documentation]
| https://www.elastic.co/docs/current/search-ui[Search UI]

|===

include::search-connection-details.asciidoc[]
include::playground/index.asciidoc[]
include::search-ai-assistant/index.asciidoc[]
include::inference-endpoints/index.asciidoc[]