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

You need a Quickwit standalone server or cluster.

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.

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

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.

For more information, visit the docs on plugin installation.

grafana-cli plugins install quickwit-quickwit-datasource

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"