Quickwit

Cloud-native search engine for log management and full-text search with a REST API for indexing documents, running queries, and managing search indexes at petabyte scale. Quickwit decouples compute from storage, enabling sub-second search and analytics directly on cloud object storage (S3, GCS, Azure Blob). It is open-source (Apache 2.0), written in Rust, and supports OpenTelemetry, Jaeger tracing, and an Elasticsearch-compatible API. Quickwit joined Datadog in January 2025.

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aid: quickwit
name: Quickwit
description: >
  Cloud-native search engine for log management and full-text search with a
  REST API for indexing documents, running queries, and managing search indexes
  at petabyte scale. Quickwit decouples compute from storage, enabling
  sub-second search and analytics directly on cloud object storage (S3, GCS,
  Azure Blob). It is open-source (Apache 2.0), written in Rust, and supports
  OpenTelemetry, Jaeger tracing, and an Elasticsearch-compatible API.
  Quickwit joined Datadog in January 2025.
type: Index
image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/quickwit/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-06-13'
modified: '2026-06-13'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
tags:
  - Search
  - Log Management
  - Observability
  - Full-Text Search
  - Cloud Native
  - Open Source
  - Distributed Tracing
  - Analytics
apis:
  - aid: quickwit:quickwit-rest-api
    name: Quickwit REST API
    description: >
      The Quickwit REST API provides endpoints for indexing NDJSON documents,
      executing full-text and aggregation search queries, managing indexes and
      data sources, streaming field values, deleting documents by query, and
      monitoring cluster health. An OpenAPI specification is served at
      /openapi.json and a Swagger UI at /swagger-ui on any running Quickwit node.
    humanURL: https://quickwit.io/docs/reference/rest-api
    baseURL: https://your-quickwit-node/api/v1
    tags:
      - Search
      - Indexing
      - Log Management
      - Observability
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://quickwit.io/docs/reference/rest-api
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/quickwit/refs/heads/main/openapi/openapi.yml
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://quickwit.io/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://quickwit.io/docs
  - type: GitHubOrg
    url: https://github.com/quickwit-oss
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/quickwit-oss/quickwit
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/quickwit-inc/
  - type: Blog
    url: https://quickwit.io/blog
  - type: X
    url: https://twitter.com/quickwit_inc
  - type: Discord
    url: https://discord.gg/MT27AG5EVE
  - type: YouTube
    url: https://www.youtube.com/@quickwit8103
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://quickwit.io/
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/quickwit-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/quickwit-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/quickwit-finops.yml
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: [email protected]

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