Redis – Monitor Redis Using Grafana

In this blog post, I will outline the steps to set up Grafana to monitor your Redis database.

Install Grafana

Go to Grafana website download page.

Example: For Red Hat, CentOS, RHEL, and Fedora(64 Bit).

Execute the following commands to make Grafana start automatically when the server is booted up.

sudo /bin/systemctl daemon-reload
sudo /bin/systemctl enable grafana-server.service

Install Redis Plugin

The Redis Data Source for Grafana is a plugin that allows users to connect to any Redis database On-Premises and in the Cloud. It provides out-of-the-box predefined dashboards and lets you build customized dashboards to monitor Redis and application data.

grafana-cli plugins install redis-datasource

Start Grafana

Start Grafana.

sudo systemctl start grafana-server.service

Check Grafana Status.

sudo systemctl status grafana-server.service

Access Grafana Monitor Dashboard

Paste the server’s IP, plus port 3000 on your web browser to access Grafana Dashboar<Ipd.

<ServerIPaddress>:3000

The initial username and password is admin/admin.

Configure Data source

Go to Configuration > Data sources.

Add data source.

Search for “Redis“, then select the data source below.

Enter a name and address in the following format.

redis://your-redis-endpoint.ng.0001.sae1.cache.amazonaws.com:6379

Click Save and test and verify that the data source is working as expected.

Import Dashboard

This step will be performed one time only.

Go to Dashboards. Then click Import for both Redis and Redis Streaming.

View Dashboard

Go to Dashboard > Manage.

Choose Redis or Redis Streaming.

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