Alternatives to Quickwit
Search logs and other large datasets using an engine built around object storage. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
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Quickwit
Search logs and other large datasets using an engine built around object storage.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Quickwit.
Elastic Stack
Elasticsearch, Logstash, Beats and Kibana combined for collecting, searching and visualizing logs and other data.
Elastic Stack bundles Elasticsearch, Logstash, Beats and Kibana for log search and dashboards, but it is not open source and requires several resource-hungry services.
OpenSearch
Index and search data with an open-source search and analytics engine.
OpenSearch is an Apache-2.0 distributed search and analytics engine with OpenSearch Dashboards, though production clusters need capacity planning rather than object-storage separation.
ClickHouse
Columnar OLAP database widely used as a backend for logs, traces and metrics.
ClickHouse stores logs in a columnar OLAP database widely used for observability, but it needs extra tooling or schema design for that use.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
GreptimeDB
Store observability data in a database queried through SQL and PromQL.
VictoriaMetrics
Store and query monitoring metrics in a time-series database.
Grafana Mimir
Store Prometheus-compatible metrics over long periods at distributed scale.
