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Monitoring for Redis

What’s Redis?

Redis is an advanced key-value store. It is similar to memcached but the dataset is not volatile, and values can be strings, exactly like in memcached, but also lists, sets, and ordered sets. All this data types can be manipulated with atomic operations to push/pop elements, add/remove elements, perform server side union, intersection, difference between sets, and so forth. Redis supports different kind of sorting abilities.

Also it is really fast – 110000 SETs/second, 81000 GETs/second at Xeon X3320 2.5Ghz Linux 2.6.x server. I believe that everything should be monitored so I’ve written redis monitoring plugin for Munin. It allows to monitor some of the values such as:

  • connected clients
  • requests per second
  • connections per second
  • used memory

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