diff --git a/flake.lock b/flake.lock
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+{
+  "nodes": {
+    "flake-utils": {
+      "inputs": {
+        "systems": "systems"
+      },
+      "locked": {
+        "lastModified": 1731533236,
+        "narHash": "sha256-l0KFg5HjrsfsO/JpG+r7fRrqm12kzFHyUHqHCVpMMbI=",
+        "owner": "numtide",
+        "repo": "flake-utils",
+        "rev": "11707dc2f618dd54ca8739b309ec4fc024de578b",
+        "type": "github"
+      },
+      "original": {
+        "owner": "numtide",
+        "repo": "flake-utils",
+        "type": "github"
+      }
+    },
+    "nixpkgs": {
+      "locked": {
+        "lastModified": 1751274312,
+        "narHash": "sha256-/bVBlRpECLVzjV19t5KMdMFWSwKLtb5RyXdjz3LJT+g=",
+        "owner": "NixOS",
+        "repo": "nixpkgs",
+        "rev": "50ab793786d9de88ee30ec4e4c24fb4236fc2674",
+        "type": "github"
+      },
+      "original": {
+        "owner": "NixOS",
+        "ref": "nixos-24.11",
+        "repo": "nixpkgs",
+        "type": "github"
+      }
+    },
+    "root": {
+      "inputs": {
+        "flake-utils": "flake-utils",
+        "nixpkgs": "nixpkgs"
+      }
+    },
+    "systems": {
+      "locked": {
+        "lastModified": 1681028828,
+        "narHash": "sha256-Vy1rq5AaRuLzOxct8nz4T6wlgyUR7zLU309k9mBC768=",
+        "owner": "nix-systems",
+        "repo": "default",
+        "rev": "da67096a3b9bf56a91d16901293e51ba5b49a27e",
+        "type": "github"
+      },
+      "original": {
+        "owner": "nix-systems",
+        "repo": "default",
+        "type": "github"
+      }
+    }
+  },
+  "root": "root",
+  "version": 7
+}
diff --git a/flake.nix b/flake.nix
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+{
+  description = "Quickwit – cloud-native search engine for observability";
+
+  inputs = {
+    nixpkgs.url = "github:NixOS/nixpkgs/nixos-24.11";
+    flake-utils.url = "github:numtide/flake-utils";
+  };
+
+  outputs = { self, nixpkgs, flake-utils }:
+    let
+      version = "0.8.0";
+
+      nixosModule = { config, lib, pkgs, ... }:
+        let
+          cfg = config.services.quickwit;
+          settingsFormat = pkgs.formats.yaml { };
+          configFile = settingsFormat.generate "quickwit.yaml" cfg.settings;
+        in {
+          options.services.quickwit = {
+            enable = lib.mkEnableOption "Quickwit search engine";
+
+            package = lib.mkOption {
+              type = lib.types.package;
+              default = self.packages.${pkgs.system}.default;
+              description = "Quickwit package to use.";
+            };
+
+            dataDir = lib.mkOption {
+              type = lib.types.path;
+              default = "/var/lib/quickwit";
+              description = "Directory for Quickwit data and indexes.";
+            };
+
+            listenAddress = lib.mkOption {
+              type = lib.types.str;
+              default = "127.0.0.1";
+              description = "Address the HTTP/gRPC/gossip services bind to.";
+            };
+
+            listenPort = lib.mkOption {
+              type = lib.types.port;
+              default = 7280;
+              description = "HTTP REST API port.";
+            };
+
+            settings = lib.mkOption {
+              type = settingsFormat.type;
+              default = { };
+              description = ''
+                Quickwit YAML configuration attributes.
+                See https://quickwit.io/docs/configuration/node-config
+              '';
+            };
+
+            extraArgs = lib.mkOption {
+              type = lib.types.listOf lib.types.str;
+              default = [ ];
+              description = "Extra CLI arguments passed to `quickwit run`.";
+            };
+
+            openFirewall = lib.mkOption {
+              type = lib.types.bool;
+              default = false;
+              description = "Open firewall ports for Quickwit (HTTP 7280, gRPC/gossip 7281).";
+            };
+          };
+
+          config = lib.mkIf cfg.enable {
+            services.quickwit.settings = lib.mkMerge [
+              {
+                version = "0.8";
+                listen_address = cfg.listenAddress;
+                rest.listen_port = cfg.listenPort;
+                data_dir = cfg.dataDir;
+                indexer.enable_otlp_endpoint = true;
+                jaeger.enable_endpoint = true;
+              }
+              cfg.settings
+            ];
+
+            users.users.quickwit = {
+              isSystemUser = true;
+              group = "quickwit";
+              home = cfg.dataDir;
+              description = "Quickwit service user";
+            };
+            users.groups.quickwit = { };
+
+            systemd.services.quickwit = {
+              description = "Quickwit search engine";
+              documentation = [ "https://quickwit.io/docs" ];
+              after = [ "network-online.target" ];
+              wants = [ "network-online.target" ];
+              wantedBy = [ "multi-user.target" ];
+
+              serviceConfig = {
+                Type = "simple";
+                User = "quickwit";
+                Group = "quickwit";
+                ExecStart = "${cfg.package}/bin/quickwit run --config ${configFile}"
+                  + lib.optionalString (cfg.extraArgs != [ ])
+                    (" " + lib.concatStringsSep " " cfg.extraArgs);
+                Restart = "on-failure";
+                RestartSec = "5s";
+
+                StateDirectory = "quickwit";
+                StateDirectoryMode = "0750";
+                LogsDirectory = "quickwit";
+                LogsDirectoryMode = "0750";
+                WorkingDirectory = cfg.dataDir;
+
+                # Hardening
+                NoNewPrivileges = true;
+                ProtectSystem = "strict";
+                ProtectHome = true;
+                PrivateTmp = true;
+                PrivateDevices = true;
+                ProtectKernelTunables = true;
+                ProtectControlGroups = true;
+                ReadWritePaths = [ cfg.dataDir ];
+                LimitNOFILE = 65536;
+              };
+            };
+
+            networking.firewall = lib.mkIf cfg.openFirewall {
+              allowedTCPPorts = [ cfg.listenPort (cfg.listenPort + 1) ];
+              allowedUDPPorts = [ (cfg.listenPort + 1) ];
+            };
+          };
+        };
+    in
+    (flake-utils.lib.eachDefaultSystem (system:
+      let
+        pkgs = nixpkgs.legacyPackages.${system};
+        arch = if pkgs.stdenv.hostPlatform.isAarch64 then "aarch64" else "x86_64";
+        tarball = "quickwit-v${version}-${arch}-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz";
+        hashes = {
+          "x86_64" = "sha256-pABVRMH0uLO+uF0ReSjJTu2nQ4gtY09p7G92VZhy440=";
+          "aarch64" = "sha256-39MmaPvFmPdKwGKNSZcycb2JigRd/w7A9hnn/Yb6kgQ=";
+        };
+      in {
+        packages.default = pkgs.stdenv.mkDerivation {
+          pname = "quickwit";
+          inherit version;
+          src = pkgs.fetchurl {
+            url = "https://github.com/quickwit-oss/quickwit/releases/download/v${version}/${tarball}";
+            hash = hashes.${arch};
+          };
+          sourceRoot = ".";
+          nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgs.autoPatchelfHook ];
+          buildInputs = [ pkgs.stdenv.cc.cc.lib ];
+          installPhase = ''
+            install -Dm755 quickwit-v${version}/quickwit $out/bin/quickwit
+          '';
+          meta = with pkgs.lib; {
+            description = "Cloud-native search engine for observability";
+            homepage = "https://quickwit.io";
+            license = licenses.asl20;
+            platforms = [ "x86_64-linux" "aarch64-linux" ];
+            mainProgram = "quickwit";
+          };
+        };
+
+        devShells.default = pkgs.mkShell {
+          packages = with pkgs; [
+            rustup
+            protobuf
+            cmake
+            pkg-config
+            openssl
+            nodejs
+            yarn
+          ];
+          shellHook = ''
+            echo "Quickwit dev shell — Rust $(rustc --version 2>/dev/null || echo 'not installed')"
+          '';
+        };
+      }
+    )) // {
+      nixosModules.quickwit = nixosModule;
+      nixosModules.default = nixosModule;
+    };
+}