Quickwit Hosting Live In 5 Minutes

Quickwit hosting puts a self-hosted log search engine on your own domain: full-text search over logs and traces, behind mandatory Basic Auth. Deploy Quickwit 0.9.0 as one standalone node with a Caddy authentication proxy and a persistent volume, published over HTTPS in minutes. It suits development, proofs of concept and small deployments, not a highly available cluster, so plan capacity yourself.

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What is Quickwit?

Quickwit is an open-source search engine for observability: logs, traces and, on upstream's roadmap, metrics. Upstream lists full-text search and aggregation queries, an Elasticsearch-compatible API, OTEL-native and Jaeger-native ingestion, schemaless or strict-schema indexing, and search on cloud storage. A self-hosted Quickwit is an alternative to a hosted log service such as Datadog logs for teams that want indexes on their own server, under Apache-2.0, with decoupled compute and storage in its wider design.

On xCloud it is Quickwit 0.9.0 as one standalone node with a file-backed metastore on the quickwit_data volume, behind a Caddy proxy that enforces Basic Auth, both pinned by digest. xCloud serves it over HTTPS. It is single-node with one shared login: no high availability, no per-index access control and no multi-tenant isolation.

From Sign-Up to a Live Quickwit In Just 3 Easy Steps

A Quickwit node needs the engine, an authentication layer, a data volume, a sizing check, a domain and a certificate before the first log is indexed. This is the same result without assembling any of it.

Step 01
Sign Up
Create your xCloud account and pick Quickwit from the OneClick catalog. Choose your domain, a username and a password, and tick the acknowledgement of the 2 vCPU, 8 GB RAM and 120 GB disk floor.
Step 02
We Deploy It For You
One click. We start Quickwit 0.9.0 and a Caddy 2.11 authentication proxy, both pinned by digest, mount quickwit_data and publish the web interface and REST API over HTTPS. The Quickwit container is never published directly.
Step 03
Create An Index And Ingest
Open your HTTPS URL and sign in, create an index with an explicit schema, then send NDJSON documents to the ingest API with the same credentials. Search the indexed fields in the UI or REST API.

Log Management And Distributed Tracing: Quickwit On Your Own Server

Quickwit runs here as one authenticated node, with its index data on a volume you control.

Full-Text Search And Aggregations
Search and aggregate the text of your logs and traces with queries over the indexed fields, from the UI or the REST API.
Elasticsearch-Compatible API
Upstream says you can use Quickwit with any Elasticsearch or OpenSearch client, which eases moving existing tooling.
OpenTelemetry And Jaeger
Upstream is OTEL-native for logs and traces and Jaeger-native, so common tracing setups can send data to it.
Schemaless Or Strict Indexing
Choose schemaless indexing or an explicit schema for each index. This template suggests a strict schema for your documents.
Mandatory Basic Auth
Every UI, search, ingest, index-administration and diagnostic route sits behind Basic Auth, with one shared administrator login.
Single Standalone Node
A file-backed metastore keeps state in quickwit_data. It is one node with exactly one writer, not a distributed cluster.

Everything You Need To Run Your Log Search 24/7

Managed hosting for Quickwit, so the parts that keep it online are not your problem.

Quickwit 0.9.0 deployed instantly
Images pinned by digest
Basic Auth on every route
Quickwit never published directly
Free SSL certificate
Index data on a persistent volume
Server backups and snapshots
30+ server locations
Unused balance refunded

What You Can Do With Quickwit

Search application logs in one place
Ship NDJSON logs to an index and search them by field from the UI instead of tailing files on servers.
Try Quickwit before a larger rollout
Run a proof of concept on a single node to check schemas and queries before you plan anything bigger.
Reuse Elasticsearch tooling
Point an Elasticsearch or OpenSearch client at Quickwit's compatible API instead of rewriting queries.
Keep traces next to your logs
Send OpenTelemetry traces and logs to the same node and search them with the same credentials.

Quickwit Screenshots

Quickwit's web UI listing an index after an xCloud restart, showing the index is still present

Quickwit vs Alternatives

Datadog logs: As a self-hosted alternative to Datadog logs for small deployments, Quickwit keeps indexes on your own server, searchable through a UI and REST API.
Elasticsearch: Elasticsearch has its own OneClick page. In a Quickwit vs Elasticsearch comparison, Quickwit offers an Elasticsearch-compatible API and focuses on logs and traces.
OpenSearch: OpenSearch has its own OneClick page. It is another search engine you can compare, and Quickwit works with OpenSearch clients, per upstream.
Loki: Loki has its own OneClick page. It is another log store to compare when choosing where logs and traces will live.

Simple Pricing. Everything Included.

Dedicated Cloud VPS sizes, pre-configured for Quickwit hosting. Pick the one that fits, and resize any time.

Cloud VPS 16 GB

Cloud VPS 24 GB

Room for larger indexes and heavier ingest.

84.99per month

24 GB RAM
8 vCPU cores
300 GB NVMe SSD
30 TB
Unlimited

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Every size is a dedicated Cloud VPS we provision, patch, monitor and restore. Billed monthly with no lock-in — delete the server and the unused balance comes back to your account. Quickwit is licensed under Apache-2.0.

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Self-managed hosting

Ready To Run Your Own Log Search?

Quickwit on xCloud runs on a dedicated Cloud VPS that we provision, patch, monitor and restore. Your index, your credentials, your domain.

Fast Provisioning
Deploy faster using an xCloud Managed Server built with optimized stacks and high-speed SSDs.
Enterprise-grade security
Protect your infrastructure with a free SSL certificate and more advanced security features at no additional cost.
Intuitive Control Panel
From Server creation to application deployment, everything can be managed from our intuitive control panel.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Feel free to contact us with any questions or concerns you may have.

Can I run Quickwit as a cluster on xCloud?

No. This template is one standalone node with a file-backed metastore and exactly one writer. It is not a highly available cluster and must not be scaled out against the same volume. Plan a separate design for clustering.

How much RAM does Quickwit need?

The manifest asks for 8192 MB of RAM, 2 CPU cores and 120 GB of disk, plus room for retained index data, and the install form asks you to acknowledge that floor. That is why this page sells the 16 GB plan.

Can you self-host Quickwit with Docker?

Yes. Upstream is container-ready, and this template is Quickwit Docker hosting without the setup: the 0.9.0 image and a Caddy authentication proxy pinned by digest, a data volume and HTTPS on your own domain, with no Compose file to maintain.

Is the Quickwit API protected?

Yes. Quickwit's stock REST API and UI have no shared browser authentication, so the template puts a Caddy proxy in front. Every UI, search, ingest, administration and diagnostic route needs the one shared Basic Auth login.

Is Quickwit compatible with Elasticsearch?

Upstream says Quickwit has an Elasticsearch-compatible API, so you can use it with any Elasticsearch or OpenSearch client. Compatibility is not total, so test the queries and clients you rely on against a copy of your data before switching.

Does Quickwit support OpenTelemetry?

Yes. Upstream describes Quickwit as OTEL-native for logs and traces and Jaeger-native. Send data over HTTPS to your domain with the Basic Auth credentials, and confirm that your collector can send Basic Auth credentials with each request.

Is Quickwit open source?

Yes. Quickwit is Apache-2.0 software, so the engine costs nothing to run. You pay for the Cloud VPS underneath, which makes this a Quickwit cloud of your own rather than a hosted log service billed by data volume.

How do I change the Quickwit password?

Update QUICKWIT_USERNAME or QUICKWIT_PASSWORD in the Environment editor and redeploy, then update ingestion and search clients at the same time. Browser Basic Auth has no dependable logout, so close existing browser sessions when an immediate sign-out matters.

How do I back up Quickwit?

Stop ingestion and wait for committed documents, then stop Quickwit before snapshotting the whole quickwit_data volume. Keep the authentication values with it and test a restore into an isolated volume with the same image first.

Backup and restore Docker apps

How do I upgrade Quickwit?

The install stays on its pinned 0.9.0 image until you adopt a newer template version. Read the release notes and test a quiesced backup and restore first, since downgrade metadata compatibility is not assumed. Nothing upgrades automatically.

Can I cancel anytime?

Yes. There is no lock-in — cancel any time. Hosting is billed monthly and charged for what you actually use, so when you delete the server the unused balance is refunded to your account, less up to 10% in payment-processing fees.