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Vex

Facts from Vex's own pages
- Admin API
- Protected admin API endpoints require an x-admin-token header and include health, metrics, reload, and shutdown endpoints. · github.com, 8 Oct 2026
- Anti-bot
- The project lists anti-bot v2 with reputation and adaptive penalties as complete. · github.com, 8 Oct 2026
- Authentication
- The proxy supports offline, online, and automatic authentication modes, plus Velocity modern forwarding. · github.com, 8 Oct 2026
- Benchmark
- A local release-build benchmark dated 2026-03-30 reports 10,000 concurrent logged-in connections, 100% success, and zero timeouts or rejects. · github.com, 8 Oct 2026
- Clustering
- Clustering is experimental and uses opt-in Redis-backed state. · github.com, 8 Oct 2026
- Documentation
- The repository provides English and Russian documentation and says the wiki docs are in progress. · github.com, 8 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- Optional experimental clustering uses Redis-backed state. · github.com, 8 Oct 2026
- License
- The repository indicates Apache-2.0 and MIT licenses. · github.com, 8 Oct 2026
- Licensing
- The repository lists Apache-2.0 and MIT licenses. · github.com, 8 Oct 2026
- Monitoring
- The README lists Prometheus metrics, JSON logs, and Grafana among its observability features. · github.com, 8 Oct 2026
- Observability
- Vex lists Prometheus metrics, JSON logs, and Grafana support. · github.com, 8 Oct 2026
- Operations
- Vex includes backend health checks, graceful shutdown, and hot reload for configuration and plugins. · github.com, 8 Oct 2026
- Plugins
- The Rust plugin SDK is alpha and may have breaking changes before version 1.0; plugins can use hot reload, event handlers, commands, metadata, and metrics. · github.com, 8 Oct 2026
- Product
- Vex describes itself as a fast Minecraft proxy. · github.com, 8 Oct 2026
- Protocol support
- The repository lists supported protocol IDs as Minecraft 1.20–1.21.11. · github.com, 8 Oct 2026
- Proxy architecture
- Vex uses Tokio asynchronous I/O and Rust, which its README says support high connection density and predictable performance. · github.com, 8 Oct 2026
- Routing and health
- Configuration includes backend pools, backend health probing, and health transitions. · github.com, 8 Oct 2026
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