Redis Exporter

Redis Exporter

Overview Installation Recording rules Dashboards Alerting rules Grafana Cloud Integration

Introduction

The following quickstart provides setup instructions and preconfigured dashboards, alerting rules, and recording rules for Redis Exporter. After running through the steps in this quickstart, you will have:

  • Set up and configured Redis Exporter to collect Redis metrics like Redis uptime, commands executed per second, memory utilization, and more. Most items from the redis info command are exported. Redis Exporter will expose these as Prometheus-style metrics.

  • Configured Prometheus to scrape Redis Exporter metrics and optionally ship them to Grafana Cloud.

  • Set up a preconfigured and curated set of recording rules to cache frequent Prometheus queries.

  • Imported Grafana dashboards to visualize your metrics data.

  • Set up Prometheus alerting rules to alert on your metrics data.

Metrics usage

This exporter publishes roughly 190 Prometheus time series by default. To see a list of metrics shipped by default with this exporter, please download a sample metrics scrape here.

Note that depending on its configuration, Redis Exporter may collect and publish far more metrics than this default set. To learn more about configuring Redis Exporter and toggling its collectors, please see the Redis Exporter GitHub repository.

Beyond toggling Redis Exporter’s settings, you can reduce metrics usage by dropping time series you don’t need to store in Prometheus or Grafana Cloud. To learn how to do this, please see Reducing Prometheus metrics usage with relabeling from the Grafana Cloud docs.

Grafana Cloud’s Redis Exporter Integration

If you’re using Grafana Cloud, you can skip all of the steps in this guide by installing the Redis Exporter Integration, which is designed to help you get up and running in a few commands and clicks. Sign up for free.

To learn how to set up Redis Exporter using the Redis Exporter Integration, please see Redis Exporter Integration from the Grafana Cloud docs.