# Search & Investigate

One engine for search, SQL, metrics, and traces.

The Data Engine stores, indexes, searches, and analyzes everything you send. Telemetry lands as open Parquet in object storage you own, and compact inverted indexes are written beside it as data arrives — so a needle query reads an index and a handful of row groups rather than scanning the lake.

## Metadata

- **Canonical HTML**: https://ctrlb.ai/platform/search
- **Platform overview**: https://ctrlb.ai/platform

## Capabilities

- Full-text search over raw log bodies, with no fields to declare in advance.
- Standard SQL for aggregation, joins, and windows across every signal.
- Metrics stored as columns rather than series, so cardinality has no ceiling.
- Stateless query nodes that fan out on demand and scale to zero when idle.
- Schema-less ingestion: new fields index the moment they appear.
- First place on the combined ClickBench result, untuned.

## Related components

- **Collect & Control**: Configure, update, and govern every collector and agent from one place. — https://ctrlb.ai/platform/collect
- **Analyze & Correlate**: Patterns, anomalies, and correlations across your telemetry. — https://ctrlb.ai/platform/analyze
- **Agent Access**: Give any agent fast access to complete operational history. — https://ctrlb.ai/platform/agent-access

## Try it

- **Live playground**: https://flow.ctrlb.ai/playground
- **Markdown mirror**: Fetch `/platform/search.md` for this page as plain Markdown