Quickwit

Quickwit is a cloud-native search engine for observability data, focused on logs and distributed traces, with metrics support on the roadmap. It is an open-source alternative to Datadog, Elasticsearch, Loki, and Tempo for teams that need full-text search and analytics over large event data.

It runs sub-second searches on cloud storage such as Amazon S3, Azure Blob Storage, and Google Cloud Storage, with decoupled compute and storage and stateless indexers and searchers. It supports full-text search, aggregation queries, schemaless or strict schema indexing, schemaless analytics, a REST API, and Elasticsearch/OpenSearch-compatible ingest and search APIs.

Quickwit works with Jaeger, OTEL logs and traces, a Grafana data source, and native Kafka, Kinesis, and Pulsar sources. It is Kubernetes ready with a Helm chart, supports multiple indexes, partitioning, retention policies, delete tasks for GDPR use cases, HA search, and HA indexing with Kafka. It is licensed Apache-2.0.