Bare metal monitoring built by people who run bare metal
We spent a decade operating servers across 60+ global locations. Now we build the monitoring tools we always needed. Lightweight, opinionated, open source.
Philosophy
Glassmkr takes its name from the glassmaking tradition.
Bohemian crystal 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.
Beautiful products, complicated to engineer, needed every day.
How we operate
Built from operations, not theory
Glassmkr comes from a decade of running bare metal infrastructure. Every alert, every threshold, every diagnostic comes from real operational experience, not market research.
Encounter first, then build
We only build features from real operational pain. If we have not hit the problem ourselves while running servers, we do not build for it.
Transparency by default
Open-source collector and MCP tools. Public documentation. Honest about what works and what does not. 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 enough to build monitoring that actually helps, not just dashboards that look pretty.
For operators, by operators
Our customers are people who manage servers. Hosting companies, MSPs, sysadmins, homelabs. We speak your language because we have been running the same infrastructure.
Free tools, paid reliability
Core monitoring is free and open-source. Run it yourself, alert yourself, no limits. Forge adds history, fleet views, and managed alerting for teams that want a dashboard without running one.
Products
Forge
Receives health data from your servers, stores history, displays fleet health, sends alerts when hardware or OS issues need attention.
Bench
MCP servers for infrastructure. Give AI agents structured access to Netdata, IPMI, Proxmox, and more. Each tool does one thing well.