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Quickwit data source for Grafana

The Quickwit data source plugin allows you to query and visualize logs, traces, and indexed data in Quickwit within Grafana.

Requirements

You need a Quickwit standalone server or cluster.

Configuration

Add a new data source in Grafana
Select the Quickwit data source plugin
Enter your Quickwit server URL
Enter your index ID and related information.
Save and test the datasource.

Features

The Quickwit data source plugin works with dashboards and explore views. Alerts are also available.

Logs and traces

The query editor supports logs, trace search, full trace view, and raw data queries.

For OpenTelemetry traces, use:

Trace search to find traces from matching spans.
Traces to open a single trace by trace_id.

Trace results include span events, span status, exception stack traces, service names, service tags, span tags, and service node graph frames.

When logs and traces are stored in separate Quickwit indexes, create one Quickwit datasource per index and configure the related datasource fields:

On the logs datasource, set the traces datasource used by log-to-trace links.
On the traces datasource, set the logs datasource used by trace-to-logs links.

Log-to-trace links are added for log fields named trace_id, traceID, traceId, or attributes.trace_id. Trace-to-logs links query logs with both trace_id and span_id.

Installation

Installation on Grafana Cloud

For more information, visit the docs on plugin installation.

Installation with Grafana CLI

grafana-cli plugins install quickwit-quickwit-datasource

Installation with Docker

Add the plugin to your docker-compose.yml or Dockerfile
Set the environment variable GF_INSTALL_PLUGINS to include the plugin

GF_INSTALL_PLUGINS="quickwit-quickwit-datasource"

Install on Grafana Cloud

Plugins can be installed directly from within your Grafana instance or automated using the Cloud API or Terraform.

Learn more about plugin installation

For more information, visit the docs on plugin installation.

Changelog

0.6.3

What's Changed

Fix declared minimum Grafana version: the plugin requires react/jsx-runtime from the host, available in Grafana 12.3+ and the 12.0.10 / 12.1.7 / 12.2.5 patch releases

0.6.2

What's Changed

Update Go and npm dependencies to fix security vulnerabilities
Sign releases with build provenance attestation

0.6.1

What's Changed

Add datasource pre-filter
Fix editing of trace search fields

0.6.0

What's Changed

React 19 compatibility for Grafana 13
Add quick filters with value autocomplete and clearer filter operations
Add trace search and full trace rendering for OpenTelemetry trace indexes, with Grafana trace frames, service node graph, span events, exception stack traces, status/warning handling, service tags, peer service metadata, and stable per-service node colors
Add trace-to-logs and log-to-trace correlation links between separate Quickwit logs and traces datasources
Add datasource configuration fields for related logs/traces datasources
Add configurable filter autocomplete chain mode (no chain, sampled chain, full chain)
Add configurable filter autocomplete value limit (defaults to 1000, 0 for unlimited)
Show useful default log messages for OTEL logs when no message field is configured
Migrate e2e tests from Cypress to Playwright and add Quickwit datasource e2e test
Add Grafana version matrix to e2e tests
Fix log panel flickering in Grafana 12.3+ by assigning stable row IDs
Fix Shift-Enter keymapping on latest Grafana versions
Fix missing AND when adding ad hoc filters
Fix ad hoc filters for JSON array values, including values with spaces or colons
Fix multi-value template variable interpolation for Quickwit queries
Document Grafana 12.1+ plugin installation with GF_PLUGINS_PREINSTALL_SYNC
Handle Grafana 13 overlays in e2e tests
Bump Go and Node dependencies to fix high vulnerabilities
Bump grafana/plugin-actions/is-compatible GitHub action

0.5.0

What's Changed

Fixed adhoc filters feature for Grafana 11.x

0.3.0-beta.1

This version works only with quickwit main version (or docker edge).

Add support for data links (possibility to create links to other datasources).

0.3.0-beta.0

This version works only with quickwit main version (or docker edge).

Add support for log context feature.
Better error handling.

0.2.4

What's Changed

Pluing is now signed

0.2.3

Fixed

Add licensing and notice files to respect Grafana Labs license
Various cleanup: remove console.log, dependency on Grafana simplejson
Update src/README.md

0.2.2

Fixed

Fix bug on template variable depending on another template variable
Fix bug when template variable is used with multiple values

0.2.1

What's Changed

Add support for template variables
Update provisioning datasource guide by @hoangphuocbk in https://github.com/quickwit-oss/quickwit-datasource/pull/13

New Contributors

@hoangphuocbk made their first contribution in https://github.com/quickwit-oss/quickwit-datasource/pull/13

0.2.0

Added

Add HTTP Basic Auth support
Clean the datasource parameters stored in the database (breaking change).

Fixed

Sub aggregations were broken when a sub bucket was empty. This can happen if some document have missing values on the sub field.

0.1.0

Initial release.

Added

Support Explore with volume an logs panels
Support for Dashboard
Support for Alerts
Metrics supported: 'count', 'avg', 'sum', 'min', 'max', 'percentiles', 'raw_data', 'logs'.