The backstory
Some time ago I adopted Quickwit 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.
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.
I started building that layer myself. It turned into Rootprint.
What it is
