> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://docs.apica.io/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://docs.apica.io/venn-ai-assistant.md).

# VENN AI ASSISTANT

Venn is the AI assistant built into Apica Ascent. Ask questions about your logs, metric, and dataflows in plain language, and let Venn draft pipelines, dashboards, alerts, and configuration for you.

Venn is the AI assistant built into every screen of Apica Ascent. You ask in plain language; Venn answers from your live data and drafts the things you would otherwise build by hand. Nothing Venn drafts is saved until you review it and press Save yourself.

### What you can do with Venn

| You want to...                      | Ask Venn                                                     | Learn more                                                                       |
| ----------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------ | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Find and understand logs            | *"Show me errors from the payments app in the last 2 hours"* | [Ask Venn about your data](/venn-ai-assistant/ask-venn-about-your-data.md)       |
| Cut log volume or mask PII          | *"Reduce log volume from the checkout service"*              | [Pipelines with Venn](/venn-ai-assistant/pipelines-with-venn.md)                 |
| Build or edit a dashboard           | *"Create a dashboard to monitor a service"*                  | [Dashboards and queries](/venn-ai-assistant/dashboards-and-queries-with-venn.md) |
| Create alerts and SLOs              | *"Alert me when error rate passes 5 per minute"*             | [Alerts and SLOs](/venn-ai-assistant/alerts-and-slos-with-venn.md)               |
| Set up sources, forwarders, agents  | *"Create a Datadog forwarder for the prod namespace"*        | [Create resources with Venn](/venn-ai-assistant/create-resources-with-venn.md)   |
| Use Ascent from your own AI clients | Connect Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor and others       | [Connect an MCP client](/venn-ai-assistant/connect-your-own-ai-client-mcp.md)    |
| Answer "how do I" questions         | *"How do I set up a Kafka source?"*                          | Venn answers from the Apica docs, inline in chat                                 |

### In this section

* [Getting started with Venn](/venn-ai-assistant/getting-started-with-venn.md): where Venn lives in the product and your first prompts.
* [Ask Venn about your data](/venn-ai-assistant/ask-venn-about-your-data.md): searching, tailing, and summarizing logs, and checking dataflow health.
* [Pipelines with Venn](/venn-ai-assistant/pipelines-with-venn.md): drafting and editing telemetry pipelines conversationally.
* [Dashboards and queries with Venn](/venn-ai-assistant/dashboards-and-queries-with-venn.md): building dashboards and live-editing the one you are viewing.
* [Alerts and SLOs with Venn](/venn-ai-assistant/alerts-and-slos-with-venn.md): the full alert and SLO lifecycle by conversation.
* [Create resources with Venn](/venn-ai-assistant/create-resources-with-venn.md): the prefill pattern for data sources, destinations, forwarders, agents, and more.
* [Connect your own AI client](/venn-ai-assistant/connect-your-own-ai-client-mcp.md): Ascent's MCP server for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, and Cursor.
* [Safety and control](/venn-ai-assistant/safety-and-control.md): why Venn is safe to let near production.
* [Administer Venn](/venn-ai-assistant/administer-venn.md): choosing the AI provider and managing keys in Admin Settings.