The latest articles on DEV Community by Oleksandr Zhyhalo (@oleksandrzhyhalo). https://dev.to/oleksandrzhyhalo https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F3964733%2F35ec25d7-3fe0-41fc-aee9-3f0260749d0b.png https://dev.to/oleksandrzhyhalo en Oleksandr Zhyhalo Tue, 09 Jun 2026 08:24:42 +0000 https://dev.to/oleksandrzhyhalo/i-built-a-self-hosted-log-search-tool-for-my-team-7di https://dev.to/oleksandrzhyhalo/i-built-a-self-hosted-log-search-tool-for-my-team-7di <h2> The backstory </h2> <p>Some time ago I adopted <a href="https://quickwit.io/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Quickwit</a> at my company. For anyone who hasn't used it: Quickwit is a search engine that runs full-text search directly on object storage (S3 or anything S3-compatible). It decouples compute from storage, so you don't pay to keep big indexes warm to search older data. That model fits logs well.</p> <p>It worked well for us, but there was a gap. Quickwit is excellent at the search engine part and leaves the rest to you by design: no end-user experience around it, and little access control. We were missing what a team needs day to day, like a usable UI, authentication, and gated ingest.</p> <p>I started building that layer myself. It turned into Rootprint.</p> <h2> What it is </h2> <p>Besides the basics you'd expect for working with logs (controlling the view, seeing context around a log line, a filters panel, a histogram, severity-aware views), it adds:</p> <ul> <li> <strong>User management</strong> with Google and GitHub authentication</li> <li> <strong>Authenticated endpoints</strong> to ingest data</li> <li> <strong>Cluster stats</strong> so you can see what's going on</li> <li><strong>A user activity overview</strong></li> <li> <strong>Control over sources</strong>, and more</li> </ul> <p>It runs on your own infrastructure, and it's Apache-2.0 licensed.</p> <h2> The stack </h2> <p>I wanted it light and fast, so:</p> <ul> <li> <strong>Backend:</strong> Hono running on Bun</li> <li> <strong>Frontend:</strong> Svelte 5 + SvelteKit, with Tailwind and DaisyUI</li> </ul> <h2> How it plugs in </h2> <p>Rootprint connects to any Quickwit instance through an environment variable. One caveat: it needs <strong>Quickwit 0.9+</strong>.</p> <p>To get started, grab the Docker Compose file and run it:<br> </p> <div class="highlight js-code-highlight"> <pre class="highlight shell"><code>curl <span class="nt">-o</span> docker-compose.yml https://docs.rootprint.io/files/docker-compose.full.yaml docker compose up <span class="nt">-d</span> </code></pre> </div> <p>The docs cover the rest of the installation options: <a href="https://docs.rootprint.io/install/docker-compose" rel="noopener noreferrer">docs.rootprint.io/install/docker-compose</a>.</p> <h2> Where it's going </h2> <p>I want to build a platform for <strong>logs and traces</strong> that holds up against anything else out there. Right now I'm focused on the log search experience; traces are on the roadmap but not built yet.</p> <p>It's still early and pre-1.0, so expect breaking changes between releases.</p> <h2> I'd love your feedback </h2> <p>If this sounds useful, I'd appreciate you trying it out and telling me what's broken, confusing, or missing. Feedback and contributors are welcome.</p> <ul> <li>Source code: <a href="https://github.com/rootprint/rootprint" rel="noopener noreferrer">github.com/rootprint/rootprint</a> </li> <li>Docs: <a href="https://docs.rootprint.io" rel="noopener noreferrer">docs.rootprint.io</a> </li> </ul> <p>Thanks for reading.</p> opensource devops monitoring showdev