Hi everyone in our last post we talked about Redis monitoring using Prometheus and Grafana. When I posted this on a few forums I got a suggestion that I should write about key metrics to watch while monitoring Redis. So let’s start the article Key metrics to monitor in Redis and optimization settings.
Below are key metrics that you have to think about. These metrics you can find using the article mentioned above and this dashboard in Grafana.
Memory Usage
Redis is an in-memory database so the first thing that you have to worry about is the amount of RAM that your server will use. Once you see your Redis getting your RAM filled up you can see performance impacts so it is recommended to always leave some amount of RAM for your system. You can do that by using the maxmemory setting. Always give 90 percent or 500mb memory to your Redis and leave 10 percent to the system. You can do it using redis-cli
config set maxmemory 12200This is also very important as the key evictions depend on max-memory. If your maxmemory is not set, your mays may not get evicted. You can read it here.
Hit/Misses
You also have to keep track of hit and misses if your misses increase a lot you can say there is something wrong. Also if you also using Redis as cache you must be aware that cache misses are more costly then getting the actual data.
Expiring vs non-expiring keys.
These are the keys that expire and some that don’t expire. The combination of maxmemory, eviction policy and expiry of keys decide which keys will be expired. If the keys are not getting expired your whole memory may be consumed and if eviction is not on max memory new keys will not be inserted in Redis.
Network IO
This defines what is the bandwidth as in how many parallel calls to Redis the network can handle. This generally will not be a bottleneck.
Other metrics
Next, you can keep a watch on how many clients are connected. High number of clients can be a problem. Then comes a number of commands getting executed.
Optimized settings for Redis.
Here are a few settings that you can do on your Redis node to make them perform better.
Increase somaxconn
echo 1204 > /proc/sys/net/core/somaxconnVM overcommit
This is important if you are taking backup of Redis and the memory present on the system is less than what Redis is running on. You can set it using the below command. Note this is not a recommended setting for normal systems.
echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memoryTransparent Huge Pages
This setting slows down the databases that use memory so to set it. You can run the below command.
echo never > /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabledThese are some basic settings that you can do to make your Redis perform better.
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