About Glassmkr
We build monitoring tools for bare metal servers.
Who we are
We come from a decade of operating bare metal infrastructure across 60+ global locations. Racks, switches, IPMI consoles, 3 AM pages about failing drives. We know what breaks and how it breaks.
Glassmkr is a EU company.
Why we exist
General-purpose monitoring tools like Datadog and New Relic do not understand IPMI, SMART, or RAID. They are built for cloud workloads. Traditional tools like Nagios and Zabbix can monitor hardware, but they are heavy to deploy and require extensive configuration.
We wanted something opinionated: 36 alerts that cover what actually breaks, installed in five minutes, zero configuration. So we built it.
What we build
- Forge - Monitoring dashboard for bare metal fleets. Receives health data from Crucible, stores history, displays fleet health, sends alerts. Free for 3 servers, Pro at $49/month.
- Crucible - Open-source monitoring agent for bare metal servers. 36 opinionated alert rules covering IPMI, SMART, RAID, OS, and network. MIT licensed.
- Bench - Open-source MCP servers for infrastructure. Structured access to Netdata, IPMI, Proxmox, and Forge. 4 packages on npm. MIT licensed.
How we think
Built from operations, not theory
Every alert, threshold, and diagnostic comes from real operational experience running bare metal infrastructure.
Encounter first, then build
We only build features from real operational pain. If we have not hit the problem ourselves, we do not build for it.
Transparency by default
Open-source agent and MCP tools. Public documentation. No black boxes in your monitoring stack.
Craft over speed
If anyone can build it in a day, it is not a product. We invest in understanding failure modes deeply.
For operators, by operators
Hosting companies, MSPs, sysadmins, homelabs. We speak your language because we run the same infrastructure.
Free tools, paid reliability
Core monitoring is free and open-source. Forge adds history, fleet views, and managed alerting for teams that want a dashboard without running one.
The name
Glassmkr takes its name from the Bohemian glassmaking tradition. Crystal that is impossibly complex to craft, yet produces objects for everyday life. A drinking glass, a vase, a chandelier. Some pieces are ordinary with millions of copies. Some are singular masterpieces. All require deep craft.
We apply the same thinking to server monitoring. Complicated to engineer, needed every day.
Contact
- General: [email protected]
- Security: [email protected]
- Privacy: [email protected]
- Code: github.com/glassmkr