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title: "Redis integration | Grafana Labs"
description: "Set up Redis monitoring with Grafana Cloud integrations"
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> For a curated documentation index, see [llms.txt](/llms.txt). For the complete documentation index, see [llms-full.txt](/llms-full.txt).

## Redis integration

Redis is an in-memory data structure store used as a key-value database, cache, and message broker. The Redis integration monitors memory usage, command throughput, and cluster health.

|                      |                                                                                                                                        |
|----------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| **What it monitors** | Commands, memory usage, keyspace statistics, connected clients, replication, cluster state                                             |
| **How it works**     | Grafana Alloy’s built-in Redis exporter scrapes metrics from your Redis instance                                                       |
| **What you get**     | 6 alerts + 1 dashboard                                                                                                                 |
| **Prerequisites**    | Redis user with monitoring permissions ([authentication setup](https://github.com/oliver006/redis_exporter#authenticating-with-redis)) |

## What you’ll see in the dashboard

- **Command throughput** — Commands processed per second and command duration
- **Memory usage** — Used memory, RSS, fragmentation ratio, and max memory threshold
- **Client connections** — Connected and blocked clients
- **Keyspace** — Keys, expiring keys, and eviction rate
- **Replication** — Connected replicas and replication lag

## Key alerts

| Alert                   | Severity |
|-------------------------|----------|
| RedisDown               | Critical |
| RedisOutOfMemory        | Warning  |
| RedisTooManyConnections | Warning  |
| RedisClusterStateNotOk  | Critical |

## Trade-offs

| Strengths                                   | Considerations                              |
|---------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------|
| Covers both standalone and cluster modes    | Single dashboard (focused on key metrics)   |
| Memory and eviction alerting out of the box | No Slowlog or command-level analysis        |
| Quick setup — one exporter config block     | Requires network access from Alloy to Redis |

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## Documentation

View the full documentation. *Learning path coming soon!*

[Redis integration](https://grafana.com/docs/grafana-cloud/monitor-infrastructure/integrations/integration-reference/integration-redis/)