Are You Ready for This, Redis? Redis Integration for Infrastructure is Now Available

Redis is an in-memory key-value data structure store that is open source. Businesses value its rapid performance and simple onboarding in the gaming, IoT, and mobile industries. Redis is gaining traction in several areas for a variety of reasons:

In-memory, schema-less database transactions are handled quickly.
Ingestion and analysis of huge datasets
High-performance applications benefit from data caching.

Because your database’s performance directly impacts the performance of your application, you’ll need a holistic view of the entire stack to guarantee that you’re providing consistent value to your users.

Redis troubleshooting is no longer necessary.
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Because it allows quick, key-based access to in-memory storage, Redis is a popular distributed caching layer. Many current online applications, for example, use “sticky sessions,” in which a user’s session is cached in a database, such as Redis, so that multiple application servers can deliver it at the same time. User sessions are crucial for web apps that provide gaming and online commerce services.

Assume you’re hosting a web application that uses Redis as its default session handler. What happens if users log of unexpectedly in the middle of a sale or other transaction? For one thing, you’ll almost certainly hear your pager beep soon.

To resolve the issue, you must first determine whether the performance issues are caused by keys expiring too quickly or if your users are being logged off because the database is out of memory. Perhaps a Redis instance is down, and you want to check your key space hits against misses or determine which clients aren’t connected? Is it possible that the system has run out of CPU resources?

The Redis Used Memory widget collects memory usage information per node. Troubleshooting such problems, which often includes guessing at the fundamental cause, can take a long time and require a lot of resources.

Redis performance and health data are critical for monitoring.
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To help you debug common issues and enhance overall Redis performance, our new Redis integration offers several essential performance and health indicators derived from the Redis INFO command:

• In seconds, commands were processed. 
• Milliseconds off uptime.
• Clients linked to the internet vs. enslaved people connected to the internet.
• Bytes per second of input vs. bytes per second of output.
• Memory was employed. 
• Changes since the latest backup.
• Per database, expired keys.
• Per the database, the total amount of keys is.
• In seconds, the average TTL per database.
• Hits per second vs. misses per second in the key space.
• Keys evicted per second vs. keys expired per second.

Redis inventory data tracking is a bonus.

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While knowing how components of your infrastructure are working is crucial, understanding why they are behaving the way they are is critical to your company’s success. When you modify your Redis server’s configuration, those changes are recorded as inventory data, allowing you to link those changes to performance or reliability issues.

Take a look at the Redis integration to see for yourself.
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This integration supports versions of Redis 3.0 and higher. Our documentation includes instructions for installation and activation. Now is the time to get started.