Vex

What it does

Admin API

Protected admin API endpoints require an x-admin-token header and include health, metrics, reload, and shutdown endpoints.checked 8 Oct 2026

Anti-bot

The project lists anti-bot v2 with reputation and adaptive penalties as complete.checked 8 Oct 2026

Authentication

The proxy supports offline, online, and automatic authentication modes, plus Velocity modern forwarding.checked 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.checked 8 Oct 2026

Clustering

Clustering is experimental and uses opt-in Redis-backed state.checked 8 Oct 2026

Documentation

The repository provides English and Russian documentation and says the wiki docs are in progress.checked 8 Oct 2026

Integrations

Optional experimental clustering uses Redis-backed state.checked 8 Oct 2026

License

The repository indicates Apache-2.0 and MIT licenses.checked 8 Oct 2026

Licensing

The repository lists Apache-2.0 and MIT licenses.checked 8 Oct 2026

Monitoring

The README lists Prometheus metrics, JSON logs, and Grafana among its observability features.checked 8 Oct 2026

Observability

Vex lists Prometheus metrics, JSON logs, and Grafana support.checked 8 Oct 2026

Operations

Vex includes backend health checks, graceful shutdown, and hot reload for configuration and plugins.checked 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.checked 8 Oct 2026

Product

Vex describes itself as a fast Minecraft proxy.checked 8 Oct 2026

Protocol support

The repository lists supported protocol IDs as Minecraft 1.20–1.21.11.checked 8 Oct 2026

Proxy architecture

Vex uses Tokio asynchronous I/O and Rust, which its README says support high connection density and predictable performance.checked 8 Oct 2026

Routing and health

Configuration includes backend pools, backend health probing, and health transitions.checked 8 Oct 2026