---
title: Advanced concepts for anomaly detection
description: This section explains the more complex concepts of the Elastic machine learning anomaly detection feature. Anomaly detection algorithms, Anomaly explanation,...
url: https://www.elastic.co/docs/explore-analyze/machine-learning/anomaly-detection/ml-ad-concepts
products:
  - Elasticsearch
  - Machine Learning
applies_to:
  - Elastic Cloud Serverless: Generally available
  - Elastic Stack: Generally available
---

# Advanced concepts for anomaly detection
This section explains the more complex concepts of the Elastic machine learning anomaly detection feature.
- [Anomaly detection algorithms](https://www.elastic.co/docs/explore-analyze/machine-learning/anomaly-detection/ml-ad-algorithms)
- [Anomaly explanation](https://www.elastic.co/docs/explore-analyze/machine-learning/anomaly-detection/ml-ad-explain)
- [Job types](https://www.elastic.co/docs/explore-analyze/machine-learning/anomaly-detection/ml-anomaly-detection-job-types)
- [Working with anomaly detection at scale](https://www.elastic.co/docs/explore-analyze/machine-learning/anomaly-detection/anomaly-detection-scale)
- [Delayed data](https://www.elastic.co/docs/explore-analyze/machine-learning/anomaly-detection/ml-delayed-data-detection)