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Quickwit

Quickwit handles high-performance search engine designed for big data as a self-hosted solution.

Overview

Cloud-native search engine for observability. An open-source alternative to Datadog, Elasticsearch, Loki, and Tempo. Sub-second search & analytics engine on cloud storage The project has 11K+ GitHub stars and is licensed under Apache-2.0.

Key Features

Source: GitHub README

  • Full-text search and aggregation queries
  • Elasticsearch-compatible API, use Quickwit with any Elasticsearch or OpenSearch client
  • Jaeger-native
  • OTEL-native for logs and traces
  • Schemaless or strict schema indexing
  • Schemaless analytics
  • Sub-second search on cloud storage (Amazon S3, Azure Blob Storage, Google Cloud Storage, …)
  • Decoupled compute and storage, stateless indexers & searchers
  • Grafana data source
  • Kubernetes ready - See our helm-chart

Normalized Features

Source: tool-features-normalized.json

charts, elasticsearch, full text search, helm, kubernetes, multi user, privacy focused, rest api, s3 storage.

Features

Authentication & Access

  • Multi-User Support

Integrations & APIs

  • REST API

Search & Discovery

  • Full-Text Search

Data & Storage

  • S3 / Object Storage

Analytics & Reporting

  • Charts & Graphs

Security & Privacy

  • Privacy-Focused