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Product
Quickwit is an open-source distributed search engine designed for search and analytics on large datasets stored on cloud storage.Read 9 Oct 2026 · quickwit.io
Deployment
Quickwit can run as a single node or as a multi-node cluster, and is distributed as a binary or Docker image with a Helm chart for Kubernetes.Read 9 Oct 2026 · quickwit.io
Free plan
NoRead 24 Sep 2026 · quickwit.io
Support
The official site links to community support through GitHub and Discord.Read 9 Oct 2026 · quickwit.io
Founded
2021Read 28 Sep 2026 · quickwit.io
Architecture
Quickwit decouples compute and storage and uses stateless indexers and searchers.Read 9 Oct 2026 · quickwit.io
Company update
Quickwit announced in January 2025 that it was joining Datadog while planning an Apache 2.0 release for the open-source community.Read 9 Oct 2026 · quickwit.io
Deployment limit
The file-backed metastore does not support multiple instances running at the same time; the documentation recommends PostgreSQL for heavy workloads.Read 9 Oct 2026 · quickwit.io
Deployment limitation
A file-backed metastore does not support multiple instances running at the same time; the documentation recommends PostgreSQL for heavy workloads.Read 9 Oct 2026 · quickwit.io
Ingestion integrations
Documented ingestion sources include its Ingest API, local files, Kafka, Pulsar, Kinesis, and S3 files using SQS notifications; log shippers such as OpenTelemetry, Fluent Bit, and Vector can also send data.Read 9 Oct 2026 · quickwit.io
Installation platforms
Quickwit provides Linux and macOS binaries, a Docker image, a Helm chart, and Glasskube installation; Linux is its only officially supported operating system.Read 9 Oct 2026 · quickwit.io
Log ingestion
Quickwit provides a REST API for JSON-formatted logs and supports OpenTelemetry gRPC and HTTP protobuf protocols.Read 9 Oct 2026 · quickwit.io
Notable limitation
The introduction says Quickwit is a poor fit for low-latency e-commerce search and mutable data.Read 9 Oct 2026 · quickwit.io
Open source
Quickwit describes its software as open and free, and its installation page lists the Apache 2.0 license.Read 9 Oct 2026 · quickwit.io
Platform support
Quickwit is officially supported only on Linux; macOS and FreeBSD are not officially supported but should work, and binaries are provided for Linux and macOS.Read 9 Oct 2026 · quickwit.io
Scalability
The documentation says Quickwit is designed as a horizontally scalable distributed system with indexer, searcher, metastore, control plane, and janitor services.Read 9 Oct 2026 · quickwit.io
Search
Quickwit supports full-text search and aggregation queries, Elasticsearch query language support, and sub-second search on cloud storage.Read 9 Oct 2026 · quickwit.io
Security and compliance
The product overview lists support for infrequent targeted deletions for GDPR use cases.Read 9 Oct 2026 · quickwit.io
Security and privacy
The homepage lists support for infrequent, targeted deletions for GDPR use cases.Read 9 Oct 2026 · quickwit.io
Storage and compute
Quickwit separates compute from storage and supports shared storage such as Amazon S3 or MinIO for cluster deployments.Read 9 Oct 2026 · quickwit.io
Storage integrations
Supported storage providers include Amazon S3 and S3-compatible services, Azure Blob Storage, local files, and Google Cloud Storage.Read 9 Oct 2026 · quickwit.io
Structured log parsing
YesRead 24 Sep 2026 · quickwit.io
Support and community
The site links to a Discord community and offers a book-a-demo link from its homepage.Read 9 Oct 2026 · quickwit.io
Tracing integrations
Quickwit natively supports the OpenTelemetry gRPC and HTTP protobuf protocols and the Jaeger gRPC SpanReader API.Read 9 Oct 2026 · quickwit.io
Use cases
The documentation describes log management, distributed tracing, conversational data, event-based analytics, audit logs, and security logs as suitable use cases.Read 9 Oct 2026 · quickwit.io

Plans and prices

Quickwit Enterprise License Priced on request Contact sales for an accurate quote. Enterprise license; page’s example includes estimated infrastructure and license costs for 1 TB/day ingestion and 30-day retention Read 9 Oct 2026 · quickwit.io

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