quickwit
App Featured
Cloud-native OSS search engine for observability
- Downloads
- 3,936
- Dependents
- Not applicable
- Stars
- 11,777
- Forks
- 628
- Contributors
- 120
- Commits
- 3,923
- Latest release
About
Open-source search engine for observability (logs, traces, and soon metrics!).
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We just released Quickwit 0.8! Read the blog post to learn about the latest powerful features!
Quickwit is the fastest search engine on cloud storage. It's the perfect fit for observability use cases
- Log management
- Distributed tracing
- Metrics support is on the roadmap
🚀 Quickstart
- Search and analytics on Stack Overflow dataset
- Trace analytics with Grafana
- Distributed tracing with Jaeger
💡 Features
- 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
- RESTful API
Read the full README
Enterprise ready
- Multiple data sources Kafka / Kinesis / Pulsar native
- Multi-tenancy: indexing with many indexes and partitioning
- Retention policies
- Delete tasks (for GDPR use cases)
- Distributed and highly available* engine that scales out in seconds (*HA indexing only with Kafka)
📑 Architecture overview
📕 Documentation
📚 Resources
🙋 FAQ
How can I switch from Elasticsearch or OpenSearch to Quickwit?
Quickwit supports a large subset of Elasticsearch/OpenSearch API.
For instance, it has an ES-compatible ingest API to make it easier to migrate your log shippers (Vector, Fluent Bit, Syslog, ...) to Quickwit.
On the search side, the most popular Elasticsearch endpoints, query DSL, and even aggregations are supported.
The list of available endpoints and queries is available here, while the list of supported aggregations is available here.
Let us know if part of the API you are using is missing!
If the client you are using is refusing to connect to Quickwit due to missing headers, you can use the extra_headers option in the node configuration to impersonate any compatible version of Elasticsearch or OpenSearch.
How is Quickwit different from traditional search engines like Elasticsearch or Solr?
The core difference and advantage of Quickwit is its architecture built from the ground to search on cloud storage. We optimized IO paths, revamped the index data structures and made search stateless and sub-second on cloud storage.
How does Quickwit compare to Elastic in terms of cost?
We estimate that Quickwit can be up to 10x cheaper on average than Elastic. To understand how, check out our blog post about searching the web on AWS S3.
What license does Quickwit use?
Quickwit is open-source under the Apache License, Version 2.0 - Apache-2.0.
Is it possible to set up Quickwit for a High Availability (HA)?
HA is available for search, for indexing it's available only with a Kafka source.
🤝 Contribute and spread the word
We are always thrilled to receive contributions: code, documentation, issues, or feedback. Here's how you can help us build the future of log management:
- Start by checking out the GitHub issues labeled "Good first issue". These are a great place for newcomers to contribute.
- Read our Contributor Covenant Code of Conduct to understand our community standards.
- Create a fork of Quickwit to have your own copy of the repository where you can make changes.
- To understand how to contribute, read our contributing guide.
- Set up your development environment following our development setup guide.
- Once you've made your changes and tested them, you can contribute by submitting a pull request.
✨ After your contributions are accepted, don't forget to claim your swag by emailing us at hello@quickwit.io. Thank you for contributing!
💬 Join Our Community
We welcome everyone to our community! Whether you're contributing code or just saying hello, we'd love to hear from you. Here's how you can connect with us:
Compatibility
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Crate facts
- Not measured
- Runs on, Native code and Python bindings read crates on crates.io. This entry lists no crate.
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Why FeaturedIt passes every Featured gate.
What it meets
- Its use signals read: binary downloads 11808, Homebrew unknown, Repology families unknown, Docker growth unknown. Featured needs 2 of these to reach their limits.
- It also passes the repository route, which counts as one use signal: 11,777 stars, 628 forks and 120 contributors. It needs 4,539 stars, 434 forks and 79 contributors together.
- The last activity is on 6 Nov 2026, 3 days ago. The rules expect an update within 365 days. Dormancy rule
Not measured: First release.
Exact rules: Featured app. The check on applied thresholds version 9.
Every rule outcome, as the check records it
expected-interval: app: E = 365 daysdormancy: last activity 2026-11-06, 3 days ago, E = 365: activefeatured: featured: binary downloads 11808, Homebrew unknown, Repology families unknown, Docker growth unknown, repository route stars 11777 (needs 4539), forks 628 (needs 434), contributors 120 (needs 79)
Measurements and sources
Each signal row shows the raw value, its source and the fetch date. The Sources list gathers every distinct source on this page. Movement needs more history.
Sources4 sources
- Description: the GitHub repository description
- GitHub releases, fetched
- GitHub repository, fetched
- GitHub contributors, fetched
Adoption3,936 binary downloads per release4 not measured
| Signal | Value | Source | Fetched | Counts |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Active dependents | Not measured | Yes | ||
| New dependents (365 days) | Not measured | Yes | ||
| Peak active dependents | Not measured | Yes | ||
| Active dependents as a share of the peak | Not measured | Yes | ||
| Binary downloads per release | 3936 | GitHub releases | Yes |
MaintenanceLatest human commit: 3 days ago7 not measured
| Signal | Value | Source | Fetched | Counts |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Latest human commit | 2026-11-06 | GitHub repository | Yes | |
| Latest release | 2026-10-22 | GitHub releases | Yes | |
| First release | Not measured | Yes | ||
| Latest version | Not measured | Yes | ||
| Days the oldest outside issue waits for a reply | 164 | GitHub repository | Yes | |
| Maintainer replies over 365 days | 37 | GitHub repository | Yes | |
| Repository archived | false | GitHub repository | Yes | |
| Repository gone | false | GitHub repository | Yes | |
| Release commit or manifest in the repo | Not measured | Yes | ||
| Published docs | Not measured | Yes | ||
| Latest release fails cargo check | Not measured | Yes | ||
| Build check date | Not measured | Yes | ||
| Build check toolchain | Not measured | Yes |
SecurityNot measured
| Signal | Value | Source | Fetched | Counts |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unpatched vulnerabilities past the grace window | Not measured | Yes | ||
| RustSec unmaintained advisory | Not measured | Yes | ||
| Deprecation notice | Not measured | Yes | ||
| Deprecated requirement | Not measured | Yes |
Distribution11,808 binary downloads over the last 3 releases10 not measured
| Signal | Value | Source | Fetched | Counts |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Releases | Not measured | Yes | ||
| Downloads over 30 days | Not measured | Yes | ||
| Binary downloads over the last 3 releases | 11808 | GitHub releases | Yes | |
| Homebrew installs on request over 365 days | Not measured | Yes | ||
| Repology repository families | Not measured | Yes | ||
| Docker pull growth over 90 days | Not measured | Yes | ||
| Docker pulls at the growth baseline | Not measured | Yes | ||
| Every version a prerelease | Not measured | Yes | ||
| Every version 0.0.x | Not measured | Yes | ||
| Every version yanked | Not measured | Yes | ||
| Crate deleted from crates.io | Not measured | Yes |
Repository11,777 stars, 628 forks, 120 contributors, 3,923 commits. Stars alone never qualify a project.1 not measured
| Signal | Value | Source | Fetched | Counts |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | 11777 | GitHub repository | Yes — one part of the repository route | |
| GitHub forks | 628 | GitHub repository | Yes — one part of the repository route | |
| Contributors with a GitHub account | 120 | GitHub contributors | Yes — one part of the repository route | |
| Commits on the default branch | 3923 | GitHub repository | No | |
| Repository's main crate left out of the entry | Not measured | Yes |
Facts that never count
| Signal | Value | Source | Fetched | Counts |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| License | Apache-2.0 | GitHub repository | No | |
| Runs on, from listed crates and their direct dependencies | Not measured | No | ||
| What shows each backend | Not measured | No | ||
| Native code, from listed crates and their dependencies | Not measured | No | ||
| Python bindings, from direct dependencies of listed crates | Not measured | No | ||
| Crates that depend on a listed crate directly | Not measured | No |
Corrections and review history
No correction applies to this entry.
Judgments
A judgment enters only through an approved issue and a merged pull request.
No judgment applies to this entry.