Redis Application plug-in for Grafana

Summary

• Introduction
• Redis CLI panel
• Getting Started
• Feedback
• Contributing
• License

Introduction

What is the Redis Application for Grafana?

The Redis Application, is a plug-in for Grafana that provides custom panels for Redis Data Source.

What is the Redis Data Source for Grafana?

If you’re not familiar with Grafana, it’s a very popular tool used to build dashboards to monitor applications, infrastructures, and software components. The Redis Data Source for Grafana is a plug-in that allows users to connect to the Redis database and build dashboards in Grafana to easily monitor Redis and application data. It provides an out-of-the-box predefined dashboard, but also lets you build customized dashboards tuned to your specific needs.

What Grafana version is supported?

Only Grafana 7.0 and later with a new plug-in platform supported.

What kind of panels it provides?

• Redis CLI panel

How to build Application

To learn how to build Redis Application plug-in and register in the new or existing Grafana please take a look at BUILD instructions.

Redis CLI panel

This panel provides Redis command line interface that allows to send commands to Redis, and read the replies sent by the server, directly from the Grafana.

Getting Started

Install using grafana-cli

Use the grafana-cli tool to install from the commandline:

grafana-cli plugins install redis-app

Run using docker

docker run -d -p 3000:3000 --name=grafana -e "GF_INSTALL_PLUGINS=redis-app" grafana/grafana

Run using docker-compose for development

Application plug-in have to be built following BUILD instructions before starting using docker-compose.yml file.

Project provides docker-compose.yml to start Redis with Redis Labs modules and Grafana 7.0.

docker-compose up

Open Grafana

Open Grafana in your browser, enable Redis Application plug-in and configure Redis Data Sources.

Feedback

We love to hear from users, developers and the whole community interested by this plug-in. These are various ways to get in touch with us:

• Ask a question, request a new feature and file a bug with GitHub issues.
• Star the repository to show your support.

Contributing

• Fork the repository.
• Find an issue to work on and submit a pull request.
• Could not find an issue? Look for documentation, bugs, typos, and missing features.

License

• Apache License Version 2.0, see LICENSE.