This add-on is operated by Stovepipe Studios
Track your Redis server's health and prevent problems before they occur.
RedisMonitor
The RedisMonitor add-on is currently in beta.
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RedisMonitor graphs every aspect of your Redis server’s health and performance to help you diagnose and prevent problems before they occur. It not only graphs the basics — metrics such as memory usage and connections created — it also graphs the rate and performance of every command that you run to help you find and fix problematic usage patterns.
Compatibility
RedisMonitor works with Redis version 2.6.0 and later. It does not require any additional code in your app — only a working Redis URL accessible from Amazon EC2’s us-east-1 region.
Adding RedisMonitor
You can use the Heroku Toolbelt to add RedisMonitor to your app. If you know your Redis URL, you can provide it when creating your RedisMonitor to begin graphing immediately using the “–url” flag:
term $ heroku addons:add redismonitor:test --url redis://x:password@my.redis.host.com:11001/
If you don’t know your Redis URL, you can still add RedisMonitor to your app — you’ll simply be prompted to enter it when you open the RedisMonitor dashboard.
term $ heroku addons:add redismonitor:test
Adding RedisMonitor to an OpenRedis server
term $ heroku addons:add redismonitor:test --url `heroku config:get OPENREDIS_URL`
Adding RedisMonitor to a Redis Cloud server
term $ heroku addons:add redismonitor:test --url `heroku config:get REDISCLOUD_URL`
Adding RedisMonitor to a Redis To Go server
term $ heroku addons:add redismonitor:test --url `heroku config:get REDISTOGO_URL`
Viewing the RedisMonitor dashboard
To access your RedisMonitor dashboard, simply click on the RedisMonitor link on your app’s addons page:
Updating your Redis URL
Your RedisMonitor’s Redis URL can be changed under the “Admin” tab on the RedisMonitor dashboard. You will not lose any graph data — RedisMonitor will simply begin graphing the new values in your existing graphs.
Removing RedisMonitor
RedisMonitor can be removed from your app via the Heroku Toolbelt:
After you remove RedisMonitor from your app, your Redis server will no longer be monitored and your graph data will be erased.
term $ heroku addons:remove redismonitor:test
How does RedisMonitor work?
RedisMonitor opens and maintains a single Redis connection with your server and polls it every minute to collect health metrics using the “INFO ALL” command. If the connection is closed or drops, our monitor will attempt to re-connect up to four times a minute.
RedisMonior may, from time to time, open a second connection from our staging monitoring environment as we test new monitoring system builds before releasing them into production. In addition, when viewing the RedisMonitor dashboard, our app servers will temporarily connect to your server to get slowlog entries.
The RedisMonitor application and monitors are hosted in AWS’s us-east-1 region.
Known issues
RedisMonitor is currently in beta. As such, there are still a few known issues:
- Alerts are currently disabled.
- Your server’s CONFIG settings are not collected. In the future, they will be collected and cached in order to support alerts.
Help
Use the “Support” button in your RedisMonitor dashboard or email us at support@redisgreen.net if you need any help with RedisMonitor.
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