# quickwit-oss/quickwit

Cloud-native OSS search engine for observability

Repository: https://github.com/quickwit-oss/quickwit
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/quickwit
Homepage: https://quickwit.io
Language: Rust
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: rust, log-management, logs, tantivy, cloud-native, open-source, big-data, cloud-storage, distributed-tracing, search-engine
Last push: 2026-08-26T20:07:25+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 94/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 83, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 1968, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 39, "gap_med": 47.0, "n_releases_24m": 5}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 11549, forks 582 (observed 2026-08-28T04:10:48.581474+00:00)

## What it is
Quickwit is an open-source, cloud-native search engine written in Rust and powered by Tantivy, designed to run sub-second search and analytics queries directly on cloud object storage like S3. It is optimized for observability workloads such as log management and distributed tracing, with native OpenTelemetry and Jaeger support and an Elasticsearch-compatible API.

## Use cases
- search and analyze application logs stored on S3
- backend trace storage for Jaeger
- ingest OpenTelemetry logs and traces
- replace Elasticsearch for low-QPS, high-volume log search
- full-text search over petabytes of immutable data
- query logs with an Elasticsearch-compatible API
- self-hosted log management on Kubernetes

## When to choose
- you need cost-efficient full-text search over large volumes of append-only data on object storage
- you want a Jaeger or OpenTelemetry-native traces backend
- you need an Elasticsearch-compatible API without running an Elasticsearch cluster
- you want decoupled compute and storage with sub-second search latency

## When to avoid
- you need high-QPS search over frequently updated data, which traditional engines handle better
- you need metrics storage today, as support is still on the roadmap
- you require Windows support, which is not available
- you need frequent updates or deletions of indexed documents

## Facets
- artifact type: service
- maturity: active
- function: search-engine, http-server, api-framework, cli, logging, tracing, monitoring
- domain: big-data, monitoring, cloud-computing, self-hosted, analytics
- platform: self-hosted, cloud, rust, cli
- tags: observability, log-management, distributed-tracing, opentelemetry, jaeger, elasticsearch-compatible, tantivy, object-storage, cloud-native, full-text-search, search, devops, linux, macos, docker, kubernetes

## Member repositories
- quickwit-oss/quickwit (main) score 94

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:48.581474+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:15:31.231731+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/quickwit-oss/quickwit (fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:48.581474+00:00, sha 3a21241f8494)
  - homepage: https://quickwit.io (fetched 2026-08-29T08:14:05.262476+00:00, sha 481d82702f72)
  - site_page: https://quickwit.io/docs/log-management/overview (fetched 2026-08-29T08:14:05.265749+00:00, sha 01850617389a)
  - site_page: https://quickwit.io/docs (fetched 2026-08-29T08:14:05.267551+00:00, sha ac21ee62e132)
  - site_page: https://quickwit.io/docs/get-started/quickstart (fetched 2026-08-29T08:14:05.269228+00:00, sha 23d1bc2a3458)
  - site_page: https://quickwit.io/docs/distributed-tracing/overview (fetched 2026-08-29T08:14:05.271117+00:00, sha 399893bd6a08)
  - site_page: https://quickwit.io/docs/reference/rest-api (fetched 2026-08-29T08:14:05.272687+00:00, sha 4c868fc68062)
  - site_page: https://quickwit.io/docs/get-started/installation (fetched 2026-08-29T08:14:05.274947+00:00, sha 0329041dc0ea)
  - site_page: https://quickwit.io/docs/reference/cli (fetched 2026-08-29T08:14:05.276543+00:00, sha 945233638c23)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.