Quickwit Hosting Live In 5 Minutes

Deploy Quickwit hosting and give your team a password-protected log and trace search node on your own domain. xCloud runs the pinned Quickwit 0.9.0 image behind an authentication proxy, generates the administrator password, mounts a persistent volume for the indexes and metastore, and publishes the UI and REST API over HTTPS in minutes — every route answers 401 until you sign in.

Deploy your Quickwit

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What is Quickwit?

Quickwit is an open-source, cloud-native search engine for logs and traces. You define an index, send it JSON documents and search them through the built-in web UI or the REST API.

This template runs Quickwit as a single standalone node with a file-backed metastore, which suits development, proofs of concept and small log-search setups. It is not a highly available cluster, and it is licensed under Apache License 2.0.

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

A Quickwit node worth exposing normally means a container, an authentication layer, a data volume, a domain and a certificate before the first document 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 and server, keep or change the username, and tick the resource acknowledgement. The password is generated for you.
Step 02
We Deploy It For You
One click. We bring up the official Quickwit image, pinned by immutable digest, kept private to the stack behind a Caddy authentication proxy, mount the quickwit_data volume for the metastore, index splits, ingest queues and cache, and publish it over HTTPS on your domain.
Step 03
Create An Index And Ingest
Save the credentials shown after install and sign in at your HTTPS URL. Create an index with an explicit schema, then send NDJSON documents to the ingest API with the same credentials and search them from the UI or the REST API.

Everything Quickwit Does, On Your Own Server

Quickwit runs in full here as one standalone node: search, ingest and index administration, all behind a single authentication boundary.

Log And Trace Search
Search logs and traces from Quickwit's built-in web UI or through its REST API on your own domain.
NDJSON Ingest Over HTTPS
Send newline-delimited JSON documents to the ingest API using the same credentials as the UI.
Every Route Behind Basic Auth
The UI, search, ingest, index-admin and diagnostic routes all sit behind the proxy; unauthenticated and wrong-password requests get 401.
Indexes With An Explicit Schema
Create indexes whose fields you define up front, then ingest into them and search by those fields.
Storage That Survives A Restart
The file-backed metastore, index splits, ingest queues and local cache live on the quickwit_data volume and survived an xCloud Restart in QA.
A Private Quickwit Container
Only the authentication proxy is published; the Quickwit container itself is not exposed to the host.

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
Official image pinned by digest
Administrator password generated for you
Basic Auth on every route
Free SSL certificate
Server backups and snapshots
Server security updates included
30+ server locations
Unused balance refunded

What You Can Do With Quickwit

Search application logs
Ship NDJSON log lines to an index and search them from the web UI without standing up a larger logging stack.
Keep traces searchable
Hold trace data in an index you own and query it through the REST API when you are debugging a request.
Prove out log search before scaling
Try Quickwit's schema and query model on a real dataset on a single node, then decide whether it fits before committing to more.
Give a small team private log search
Run one password-protected node on your own domain where ingestion clients and people share 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

Elasticsearch: A general-purpose search engine often used for logs; Quickwit is built specifically for logs and traces and runs here as one small authenticated node.
Grafana Loki: A log aggregation system queried from Grafana; Quickwit ships its own web UI and REST API for searching indexed documents.
Datadog Logs: A hosted log search service; Quickwit is self-hosted, so your documents stay on a server you control.
Splunk: A hosted and enterprise log platform; Quickwit is open source under Apache License 2.0 and deployed here on your own server.

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

More headroom if Quickwit sits alongside other tools or retains larger indexes.

$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 itself is licensed by its maintainers under Apache License 2.0.

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Ready To Run Your Own Log Search?

Quickwit on xCloud runs on a dedicated Cloud VPS that we provision, patch, monitor and restore. Deploy faster. Own the server. Stay in control.

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.

How do I sign in?

Use the username and generated password shown in the installation credentials, in the browser or as HTTP Basic Auth from API clients over HTTPS.

Is Quickwit a cluster here?

No. It is one standalone node with one file-backed metastore writer, so do not scale it against the same volume. It is not a highly available deployment.

What runs alongside Quickwit?

A small Caddy authentication proxy that guards every route. Only the proxy is published; the Quickwit container is private to the stack.

Which routes are protected?

The UI, search, ingest, index-admin and diagnostic routes. In verification, requests with no credentials or the wrong password were rejected with 401.

Can I give different people different access?

No. Basic Auth is one shared administrator boundary with no per-index RBAC or multi-tenant isolation.

How do I send data in?

Create an index with an explicit schema, then post NDJSON documents to the ingest API over HTTPS using the same credentials as the UI.

How do I rotate the credentials?

Change them in xCloud Environment and redeploy, then update your ingestion clients at the same time.

Edit environment variables

What should I back up?

The quickwit_data volume, plus the stable credential values. Back up with ingestion stopped and Quickwit stopped so the metastore, splits and queues are captured together.

Backups in xCloud

Does xCloud automatically back up or update Quickwit?

No. The template pins Quickwit 0.9.0 by immutable digest; new installations use the pinned release, existing sites are not automatically upgraded. To upgrade, read the release notes, test a restore, then bump the image tag and digest together. Downgrading means restoring the matching pre-upgrade snapshot. Server-level backups and snapshots are available on every Cloud VPS.

What are the server requirements, and why does this page sell 16 GB?

The template's baseline asks for 2 CPU cores, 8192 MB of RAM and 120 GB of disk, upstream's single-node floor, and install requires an acknowledgement checkbox. Measured idle use on a tiny dataset was well under 100 MiB combined. This page sells the 16 GB tier because the manifest floor is above 4 GB; retained indexes need disk on top.

What survives a restart?

Data on the quickwit_data volume. In QA the index and a searchable test document were still present after an xCloud Restart.

Is xCloud officially partnered with Quickwit?

No. No official partnership or endorsement between xCloud and the Quickwit project has been verified. This is a deployment and server-management option for the open-source Quickwit project.

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.