A high-performance, observable, and user-friendly Velocity proxy fork based on Velocity-CTD.

Velocity is excellent, but server administrators face three persistent barriers to migration:

1. Loss of security features — Anti-bot capabilities that exist in older proxies (FlameCord, XCord) are absent in stock Velocity. Administrators resort to paid solutions like VeloFlame ($11 PRO) or complex plugin stacks.

2. No observability out of the box — Performance monitoring requires installing separate plugins. Glide bundles Prometheus metrics and Grafana dashboards natively.

3. Migration friction — Moving from BungeeCord or XCord means manually rewriting config.yml. Glide includes automatic configuration migration.

• Based on Velocity-CTD — All the optimizations and features of CTD, actively maintained
• Anti-bot in the pipeline — Native checks in Netty before the handshake completes
  • Rate limiting per IP
  • Protocol validation
  • Timeout abuse detection
  • Slow-bot detection
  • More to come
• Prometheus + Grafana — Real-time metrics: TPS, player count, memory, CPU, per-server stats
  • Pre-built dashboards included
  • No additional plugins needed
• Spark profiler bundled — Profile your proxy in real-time
• Automatic migration — CLI tool to convert BungeeCord/XCord configs to Velocity
• 100% open source — GPLv3, full source code, no paywalls

1. Download the latest JAR from Releases
2. Replace your Velocity JAR with Glide
3. Start the server — no configuration changes needed initially

java -jar glide.jar migrate --from bungeecord --config config.yml --output velocity.toml

The tool will:

• Automatically map servers, listeners, and groups
• Flag incompatible settings with warnings
• Generate a working velocity.toml you can review and tweak

Edit velocity.toml:

[metrics]
enabled = true
port = 9090  # Prometheus scrapes here

Access metrics at http://localhost:9090/metrics

• Prometheus integration + Grafana dashboards
• BungeeCord → Velocity migration CLI
• XCord → Velocity migration
• Anti-bot native implementation
  • Rate limiting
  • Protocol validation
  • Timeout detection
  • Slow-bot detection
• Configuration documentation
• Community contributions

Contributions are welcome! See CONTRIBUTING.md for details.

GPL v3.0 — See LICENSE for details.

Glide is a fork of Velocity-CTD, which is a fork of Velocity.

• Discord — Coming soon
• Issues — GitHub Issues
• Discussions — GitHub Discussions