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Quickwit

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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

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

Features

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

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

  1. Add the plugin to your docker-compose.yml or Dockerfile
  2. Set the environment variable GF_INSTALL_PLUGINS to include the plugin
GF_INSTALL_PLUGINS="quickwit-quickwit-datasource"

Installing Quickwit on Grafana Cloud:

For more information, visit the docs on plugin installation.

Installing on a local Grafana:

For local instances, plugins are installed and updated via a simple CLI command. Plugins are not updated automatically, however you will be notified when updates are available right within your Grafana.

1. Install the Data Source

Use the grafana-cli tool to install Quickwit from the commandline:

grafana-cli plugins install 

The plugin will be installed into your grafana plugins directory; the default is /var/lib/grafana/plugins. More information on the cli tool.

2. Configure the Data Source

Accessed from the Grafana main menu, newly installed data sources can be added immediately within the Data Sources section.

Next, click the Add data source button in the upper right. The data source will be available for selection in the Type select box.

To see a list of installed data sources, click the Plugins item in the main menu. Both core data sources and installed data sources will appear.

Changelog

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'.