# quickwit-oss/quickwit — health index 96/100 (Exceptional)

> Inspection of the public repository quickwit-oss/quickwit by inspect.software. It holds a health index of 96 out of 100, placing it in the Exceptional band. The index is a signal derived from publicly visible practice, not a warranty, a security audit, or an endorsement, and it is independent of payment.

- Repository: https://github.com/quickwit-oss/quickwit
- Report page: https://inspect.software/software/quickwit-oss/quickwit
- Full JSON report: https://inspect.software/api/repositories/quickwit-oss/quickwit/report
- Badge: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/inspect-software/badges/main/v1/q/quickwit-oss/quickwit.svg
- Inspected: 2026-09-18
- Methodology: metrics 2.10.0, report schema 0.34.0 (https://inspect.software/methodology.md)

## Category summary

| Category | Weight | Index | Band |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vitality | 21% | 93/100 | Exceptional |
| Community & Adoption | 17% | 80/100 | Excellent |
| Sustainability & Governance | 23% | 78/100 | Good |
| Engineering Quality | 19% | 90/100 | Excellent |
| Security | 16% | 73/100 | Good |
| AI Readiness | 4% | 92/100 | Excellent |

The weighted overall 84 is calibrated to 96 on the published index scale (record calibration 2026-08-02).

## Repository facts

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Cloud-native OSS search engine for observability |
| Classification | network-service, cli, library |
| Homepage | https://quickwit.io |
| Primary language | Rust |
| License | Apache-2.0 |
| Stars | 11,654 |
| Forks | 597 |
| Created | 2021-04-13 |
| Last push | 2026-09-18 |
| Latest release | v0.9.0 |
| Commits (last year) | 458 |
| Bus factor | 3 |
| Topics | rust, log-management, logs, tantivy, cloud-native, open-source, big-data, cloud-storage, distributed-tracing, search-engine |

## Published packages

| Registry | Package | Latest | Monthly downloads |
|---|---|---|---|
| crates | quickwit-aws | 0.3.0 | 83 |
| crates | quickwit-actors | 0.3.0 | 54 |
| crates | quickwit-common | 0.3.0 | 133 |
| crates | quickwit-config | 0.3.0 | 95 |

## Vitality — 93/100 (Exceptional)

Is the project alive — is code being written and are releases shipping? Weight: 21% of the overall index.

### Development activity — 100/100 (Exceptional)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Push recency | met | 36 / 36 | last push 0 days ago |
| Commit cadence | met | 36 / 36 | 52/52 weeks with commits |
| Commit volume | met | 18 / 18 | 458 commits in the last year |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Maintained | met | 10 / 10 | 30 commit(s) and 8 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10 |

### Release discipline — 83/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ships releases | met | 27 / 27 | 30 releases published |
| Release recency | met | 36 / 36 | latest release 55 days ago |
| Release cadence | partial | 19.8 / 27 | a release every ~95.4 days |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Signed-Releases | not met | 0 / 10 | Project has not signed or included provenance with any releases. |

### Abandonment — 100/100 (Exceptional)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Project is still maintained | met | 100 / 100 | last human commit 0 days ago |

## Community & Adoption — 80/100 (Excellent)

Does the project have users, downloads, attention, and a welcoming setup for contributors? Weight: 17% of the overall index.

### Popularity & adoption — 93/100 (Exceptional)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stars | met | 60 / 60 | 11,654 stars |
| Forks | partial | 23.1 / 25 | 597 forks |
| Watchers | partial | 10.3 / 15 | 71 watchers |

### Community health — 92/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| README | met | 22.5 / 22.5 | — |
| License | met | 22.5 / 22.5 | recognized license (Apache-2.0) |
| CONTRIBUTING guide | met | 18 / 18 | — |
| Code of conduct | met | 13.5 / 13.5 | — |
| Issue template | not met | 0 / 7.2 | — |
| PR template | met | 6.3 / 6.3 | — |

### Ecosystem adoption (downloads) — 43/100 (Weak)

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Registry dependents. Remaining weights renormalized.

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly downloads | partial | 34.2 / 80 | 365 downloads/month across crates |
| Registry dependents | excluded | 0 / 20 | not reported by this ecosystem |

## Sustainability & Governance — 78/100 (Good)

Will the project survive its people — bus factor, responsiveness, who backs it, and package upkeep? Weight: 23% of the overall index.

### Maintainer resilience (bus factor) — 77/100 (Good)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bus factor | partial | 36 / 54 | 3 contributor(s) cover half of all commits |
| Commit distribution | partial | 17.1 / 22.5 | top contributor authored 24% of commits |
| Contributor breadth | met | 13.5 / 13.5 | 99 contributors |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Contributors | met | 10 / 10 | project has 17 contributing companies or organizations |

### Issue & PR responsiveness — 81/100 (Excellent)

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Newcomer PR acceptance. Remaining weights renormalized.

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Issue resolution | partial | 30.7 / 42 | 73% of issues closed |
| PR acceptance | partial | 25 / 30 | 3399/4076 decided PRs merged |
| Newcomer PR acceptance | excluded | 0 / 13 | no first-time contributor's PR decided in 30d |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Code-Review | met | 15 / 15 | all changesets reviewed |

### Ownership & stewardship — 88/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ownership backing | met | 30 / 30 | organization-owned |
| Verified domain | met | 20 / 20 | — |
| Owner reach | partial | 18.5 / 25 | 370 followers of quickwit-oss |
| Track record | partial | 19.2 / 25 | 22 public repos, account ~4 yr old |

### Package maintenance — 61/100 (Moderate)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Published & resolvable | met | 25 / 25 | 4 package(s) on crates |
| Publish recency | partial | 4 / 35 | latest publish 1564 days ago |
| Version history | partial | 12 / 20 | 2 published versions |
| Not deprecated | met | 20 / 20 | active, not deprecated or yanked |

## Engineering Quality — 90/100 (Excellent)

Are baseline engineering and documentation practices in place? Weight: 19% of the overall index.

### Engineering practices — 84/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| CI workflows | met | 24 / 24 | 13 workflow(s) |
| Tests present | met | 24 / 24 | — |
| Linter config | met | 16 / 16 | biome.json, clippy.toml, rustfmt.toml |
| Pre-commit hooks | not met | 0 / 9.6 | — |
| .editorconfig | not met | 0 / 6.4 | — |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: CI-Tests | met | 20 / 20 | 30 out of 30 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 10 |

### Documentation — 100/100 (Exceptional)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| README | met | 30 / 30 | — |
| Documentation directory | met | 25 / 25 | — |
| Documentation / homepage site | met | 15 / 15 | https://quickwit.io |
| Repository description | met | 10 / 10 | — |
| Topics | met | 10 / 10 | 10 topics |
| Wiki | met | 10 / 10 | — |

## Security — 73/100 (Good)

Are visible security and supply-chain practices strong, with no malicious dependency and no unresolved high-risk jurisdiction exposure? Weight: 16% of the overall index.

### Security posture — 75/100 (Good)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Binary-Artifacts | met | 7.5 / 7.5 | no binaries found in the repo |
| Branch-Protection | partial | 6 / 7.5 | branch protection is not maximal on development and all release branches |
| CI-Tests | met | 2.5 / 2.5 | 30 out of 30 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 10 |
| CII-Best-Practices | not met | 0 / 2.5 | no effort to earn an OpenSSF best practices badge detected |
| Code-Review | met | 7.5 / 7.5 | all changesets reviewed |
| Contributors | met | 2.5 / 2.5 | project has 17 contributing companies or organizations |
| Dangerous-Workflow | met | 10 / 10 | no dangerous workflow patterns detected |
| Dependency-Update-Tool | met | 7.5 / 7.5 | update tool detected |
| Fuzzing | not met | 0 / 5 | project is not fuzzed |
| License | met | 2.5 / 2.5 | license file detected |
| Maintained | met | 7.5 / 7.5 | 30 commit(s) and 8 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10 |
| Packaging | met | 5 / 5 | packaging workflow detected |
| Pinned-Dependencies | partial | 4.5 / 5 | dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 9 |
| SAST | partial | 3.5 / 5 | SAST tool is not run on all commits -- score normalized to 7 |
| Security-Policy | met | 5 / 5 | security policy file detected |
| Signed-Releases | not met | 0 / 7.5 | Project has not signed or included provenance with any releases. |
| Token-Permissions | met | 7.5 / 7.5 | GitHub workflow tokens follow principle of least privilege |
| Vulnerabilities | not met | 0 / 7.5 | 37 existing vulnerabilities detected |

### Dependency advisories — 66/100 (Good)

Matched the crates:quickwit-aws@0.3.0 runtime dependency closure — what installing the published package pulls in — 147 packages. Reachability is not analyzed.

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Direct dependencies free of known advisories | met | 35 / 35 | no direct dependency carries a known advisory |
| Indirect dependencies free of known advisories | partial | 6.6 / 25 | 5 affected: ring 0.16.20 (high 7.5), rustls 0.19.1 (high 7.5), webpki 0.21.4 (high 7.5), +2 more |
| No advisories left outstanding | partial | 24.4 / 40 | 4 advisory-carrying package(s) unaddressed past 90 days; oldest published 1608 days ago |

### Malicious dependencies — 100/100 (Exceptional)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| No dependency reported as a malicious package | met | 100 / 100 | no dependency is reported as a malicious package |

### High-Risk Jurisdiction Exposure — 100/100 (Exceptional)

Only high-confidence self-published location evidence affects this multiplier. Ambiguous matches are review-only; country evidence is not proof of nationality, citizenship, legal registration, malicious intent, or sanctions status.

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Policy exposure multiplier | met | 100 / 100 | no confirmed policy-scope location match |

## AI Readiness — 92/100 (Excellent)

How well is the repo equipped to be developed and maintained with AI coding agents? Carries a deliberately small weight: agent tooling is a real maintenance signal, but its absence must never gate the top of the scale (calibration saturates at raw 91, so 100/100 remains reachable with AI Readiness at zero).

### Agent context & guidance — 85/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agent instructions | met | 45 / 45 | AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, docs/internals/specs/tla/CLAUDE.md, quickwit/CLAUDE.md |
| Machine-readable docs (llms.txt) | not met | 0 / 15 | — |
| Legible commit history | met | 40 / 40 | 84 of 91 human commits state their intent (structured subject or explanatory body) |

### Verify loop (build / test / typecheck) — 99/100 (Exceptional)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| One-command bootstrap | met | 18 / 18 | Makefile, quickwit/Makefile, quickwit/quickwit-ui/Makefile |
| Automated tests | met | 22 / 22 | — |
| Lint / format config | met | 11 / 11 | biome.json, clippy.toml, rustfmt.toml |
| Static type checking | met | 11 / 11 | quickwit/quickwit-ui/tsconfig.json |
| Reproducible environment | met | 10 / 10 | devcontainer, Dockerfile, lockfile |
| Demonstrated agent practice | met | 10 / 10 | 7 of the last 100 commits agent-authored or agent-credited |
| Automated maintenance | met | 8 / 8 | 9 of the last 100 commits are automated dependency updates |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Pinned-Dependencies | partial | 9 / 10 | dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 9 |

### Code legibility for models — 98/100 (Exceptional)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type-checkable code | met | 45 / 45 | Rust (statically typed) |
| Manageable file sizes | partial | 52.6 / 55 | 38/873 source files over 60KB |

### Machine-readable interfaces — 80/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| API schema (OpenAPI/GraphQL/proto) | met | 40 / 40 | quickwit/quickwit-codegen/example/src/hello.proto, quickwit/quickwit-df-core/proto/datafusion.proto, quickwit/quickwit-ingest/src/ingest_service.proto, quickwit/quickwit-proto/protos/event_store_sortschema/event_store_sortschema.proto, quickwit/quickwit-proto/protos/quickwit/cluster.proto, quickwit/quickwit-proto/protos/quickwit/common.proto, quickwit/quickwit-proto/protos/quickwit/compaction.proto, quickwit/quickwit-proto/protos/quickwit/control_plane.proto, quickwit/quickwit-proto/protos/quickwit/developer.proto, quickwit/quickwit-proto/protos/quickwit/indexing.proto, quickwit/quickwit-proto/protos/quickwit/ingest.proto, quickwit/quickwit-proto/protos/quickwit/ingester.proto, quickwit/quickwit-proto/protos/quickwit/metastore.proto, quickwit/quickwit-proto/protos/quickwit/router.proto, quickwit/quickwit-proto/protos/quickwit/search.proto, quickwit/quickwit-proto/protos/third-party/gogoproto/gogo.proto, quickwit/quickwit-proto/protos/third-party/google/protobuf/any.proto, quickwit/quickwit-proto/protos/third-party/google/protobuf/api.proto, quickwit/quickwit-proto/protos/third-party/google/protobuf/descriptor.proto, quickwit/quickwit-proto/protos/third-party/google/protobuf/duration.proto, quickwit/quickwit-proto/protos/third-party/google/protobuf/empty.proto, quickwit/quickwit-proto/protos/third-party/google/protobuf/field_mask.proto, quickwit/quickwit-proto/protos/third-party/google/protobuf/source_context.proto, quickwit/quickwit-proto/protos/third-party/google/protobuf/struct.proto, quickwit/quickwit-proto/protos/third-party/google/protobuf/timestamp.proto, quickwit/quickwit-proto/protos/third-party/google/protobuf/type.proto, quickwit/quickwit-proto/protos/third-party/google/protobuf/wrappers.proto, quickwit/quickwit-proto/protos/third-party/jaeger/model.proto, quickwit/quickwit-proto/protos/third-party/jaeger/storage.proto, quickwit/quickwit-proto/protos/third-party/jaeger/storage/v2/trace_storage.proto, quickwit/quickwit-proto/protos/third-party/opentelemetry/proto/collector/logs/v1/logs_service.proto, quickwit/quickwit-proto/protos/third-party/opentelemetry/proto/collector/metrics/v1/metrics_service.proto, quickwit/quickwit-proto/protos/third-party/opentelemetry/proto/collector/trace/v1/trace_service.proto, quickwit/quickwit-proto/protos/third-party/opentelemetry/proto/common/v1/common.proto, quickwit/quickwit-proto/protos/third-party/opentelemetry/proto/logs/v1/logs.proto, quickwit/quickwit-proto/protos/third-party/opentelemetry/proto/metrics/v1/metrics.proto, quickwit/quickwit-proto/protos/third-party/opentelemetry/proto/resource/v1/resource.proto, quickwit/quickwit-proto/protos/third-party/opentelemetry/proto/trace/v1/trace.proto |
| MCP server | not met | 0 / 20 | — |
| Runnable examples | met | 40 / 40 | example, examples |

## Collection warnings

- Star history unavailable: GitHub GraphQL error: Resource not accessible by personal access token
- First-time contributor figures cover 12 of 14 authors (cap 12)
- Could not fetch crates package 'quickwit-cli' from its registry
- Could not fetch crates package 'quickwit-dst' from its registry
- Could not fetch crates package 'quickwit-ingest' from its registry
- Could not fetch crates package 'quickwit-jaeger' from its registry

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