Logs
Quickwit
Quickwit (Datadog)
A Rust, cloud-native, sub-second search engine that runs full-text log/trace search directly on S3 — an open alternative to Elasticsearch/Loki for cost-efficient search.
- Category
- Logs
- License
- Open source
- Deployment
- Self-hosted
- Cost
- Free
- Free tier
- Yes
- Self-host effort
- Moderate
- Maturity
- Established
- Popularity
- ≈11.3k GitHub stars
The catch
The Datadog acquisition is the elephant in the room — still Apache-2.0 on GitHub, but the founding team now works on Datadog, so long-term independent momentum is uncertain.
Monitors
LogsTraces
Capabilities
API
Built for
SRE / DevOps
Ownership
Acquired by Datadog (Jan 2025)