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Quickwit: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Quickwit is an open-source search engine for log and trace data. It runs queries directly on object storage and supports OpenTelemetry and Jaeger for ingesting telemetry. The software is developed by Quickwit, Inc., which was founded in 2020 and acquired by Datadog in January 2025. Datadog has said that the Quickwit team will focus on integration with Datadog and that it will release a major update under the Apache 2.0 licence.

According to CB Insights, Quickwit is headquartered in San Francisco, California; the company's own website does not state a location. Quickwit can be deployed on premises, in the customer's own cloud or on Kubernetes, so logs remain under the operator's control. The sources reviewed do not describe a vendor-hosted service. For a European organisation, Quickwit is therefore a self-operated option in which storage can take place in its own EU infrastructure, while the ownership link to Datadog should be considered in contracts and in support access.

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Sovereignty score
69 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-210
    Headquartered in the US: CLOUD Act and FISA 702
  • Data residency SOV-3100
    No hosting in Europe (US)
  • Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-390
    Self-hostable: encryption keys under your own control
  • Freedom from lock-in SOV-680
    Open source: low switching costs
  • Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-665
    Source code auditable, forkable and self-hostable

SOV codes: the matching objective in the European Commission's Cloud Sovereignty Framework. Official source

How the score is calculated

Facts and evidence

Last checked October 10, 2026
Headquarters
US (US)Verified by hand
EU adequacy decision
Only for companies individually certified under the EU-US Data Privacy FrameworkVerified by hand
Data hosting
Self-hosted, e.g. in US (your choice)Verified by hand
Open-source
YesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
NoVendor-stated
Category
Network & Monitoring
Type
Product
Website
quickwit.io ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Quickwit

The European alternatives to Quickwit come from our knowledge base of over 6,800 vendors. We only list vendors headquartered in the EU or the EEA; fully European-owned vendors rank before vendors with a foreign owner. For each alternative you see the country, the open-source status and a short description.

Score per alternative: 0 = high exposure, 100 = sovereign

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Why digital sovereignty matters with Quickwit

Quickwit is headquartered in the United States. US vendors fall under the CLOUD Act and FISA 702: US authorities can compel access to data, even when that data sits in a European data centre. That is the core of the jurisdictional exposure in our model.

Quickwit hosts data outside the EU (US). Personal data therefore leaves the EU, which requires a transfer mechanism under the GDPR and pulls the data residency score down.

Quickwit is open source. You can audit the source code, self-host the software and keep the encryption keys under your own control. Switching is easier because data and software are not tied to a single party.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs Quickwit together with your other vendors and gives a total score, a heatmap and the main risk drivers.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to Quickwit?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Quickwit include Centreon, Checkmk and collectd. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Quickwit?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Quickwit include Centreon, Checkmk, collectd and Healthchecks.io. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

Is Quickwit GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Quickwit is headquartered in US and hosts data in US. Its GDPR compliance is limited or unclear. For full EU data residency the EU alternatives on this page usually offer more certainty.

Details and sources

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Sources

Public sources used in the latest check of this record.

Compliance evidence

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