Quickwit
Cloud-native search engine for logs and traces
Founded
2021
Starting Price
0
Category
Developer Tools
Last updated March 12, 2026
About Quickwit
Quickwit is an open-source, cloud-native search engine designed for observability data including logs and traces. Built in Rust, it executes complex search and analytics queries directly on object storage with sub-second latency, offering up to 10x cost savings compared to Elasticsearch.
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Up to 10x cheaper than Elasticsearch for log search and analytics
- Built in Rust for high performance with low resource consumption
- Decoupled compute and storage architecture reduces infrastructure costs
- Open-source with no vendor lock-in
- Native OpenTelemetry support for modern observability stacks
Key Features
Sub-Second Search on Object Storage
Executes complex search and analytics queries directly on cloud object storage (S3, MinIO, Ceph) with sub-second latency
Schemaless Indexing
Index JSON documents with an arbitrary number of fields without defining a schema upfront
Real-Time Indexing
Ingest and index data in real-time with support for distributed queues like Apache Kafka and Amazon Kinesis
Horizontal Scalability
Scale horizontally to handle petabytes of data without significant architectural changes
Multi-Tenancy
Built-in multi-tenancy support for isolating data across different teams or customers
Retention Policies & GDPR Deletions
Configure automatic data retention policies and perform GDPR-compliant data deletions
OpenTelemetry Native
Native support for OpenTelemetry protocols for ingesting logs and traces
Pricing
Open Source
0/month
- Full search engine capabilities
- Object storage integration (S3, MinIO, Ceph)
- Schemaless indexing
- OpenTelemetry support
- Elasticsearch-compatible API
Best For
Log Management at Scale
Store and search petabytes of log data on cheap object storage while maintaining sub-second query performance
Distributed Tracing
Ingest and analyze OpenTelemetry traces for debugging microservices architectures
Cost-Effective Observability
Replace expensive Elasticsearch or Datadog deployments with a solution that can reduce costs by up to 90%
Security Analytics
Index and search security logs and audit trails with retention policies and GDPR-compliant deletion capabilities
