# AI Features

AI Features use contextual understanding, external or ilert-hosted large language models (LLMs) to enhance common workflows in ilert.

<table><thead><tr><th width="227.484375">Feature</th><th width="359.8984375">Description</th><th>LLM usage type<select><option value="tLbru3ef93oe" label="Self-hosted" color="blue"></option><option value="PxZd7Wj9inMm" label="External LLM" color="blue"></option></select></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><a href="../alerting/configure-alerting/alert-sources/using-ilert-ai-for-alert-grouping">Intelligent alert grouping</a></td><td>Automatically groups related events using semantic similarity  to reduce noise.</td><td><span data-option="tLbru3ef93oe">Self-hosted</span></td></tr><tr><td><a href="../on-call-management-and-escalations/on-call-schedules/recurring-schedules/using-ilert-ai-for-schedule-generation">Schedule generation</a></td><td>Builds recurring schedules from a chat interface</td><td><span data-option="PxZd7Wj9inMm">External LLM</span></td></tr><tr><td><a href="../incidents-and-status-pages/incidents/generating-incidents-using-ai">Incident generation</a></td><td>Drafts incident updates and status page posts based on ongoing incident context.</td><td><span data-option="PxZd7Wj9inMm">External LLM</span></td></tr><tr><td><a href="../incidents-and-status-pages/incidents/generating-incident-updates-through-ai">Post-mortem generation</a></td><td>Generates incident post-mortems using alert timelines, notes, and status updates.</td><td><span data-option="PxZd7Wj9inMm">External LLM</span></td></tr><tr><td><a href="ai-features/global-search-enhanced-by-ilert-ai">Global search</a></td><td>Semantic search across alerts, incidents, services, alert sources, schedules, escalatio policies, ...</td><td><span data-option="tLbru3ef93oe">Self-hosted</span></td></tr></tbody></table>

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AI features that use **external LLMs** can be turned off globally in the [account settings](https://docs.ilert.com/introduction#model-endpoints-and-data-residency).
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