Quickwit

San Francisco, CA, USA
Founded 2021

Quickwit is a cloud-native, distributed search and analytics engine built on top of Tantivy, the Rust-based search library. It is designed to deliver sub-second search queries directly on cloud object storage such as Amazon S3, making it up to 10x more cost-efficient than traditional search engines like Elasticsearch. Quickwit is optimized for observability use cases, providing native support for log management and distributed tracing via OpenTelemetry and Jaeger, and is capable of indexing and searching petabyte-scale datasets. The company was acquired by Datadog in January 2025.

Last Updated: March 13, 2026

Current Valuation

No valuation data available

Funding Summary

$2.6M

Total reported funding

Recent Headlines

Media Mention
January 9, 2025
Datadog Blog: Datadog acquires Quickwit

Key People

François Massot
Co-Founder & CEOFounder
LinkedIn Profile
Paul Masurel
Co-Founder & CTOFounder
LinkedIn Profile

Core OSS Projects

Cloud-native search engine for observability. An open-source alternative to Datadog, Elasticsearch, Loki, and Tempo.

License: Apache-2.0

Business Information

Technologies

Observability
Rust
Search
Cloud Storage
Distributed Tracing
Log Management

Sectors

Enterprise

Licenses

Apache-2.0

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