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Monitor Redis Sentinel

Overview

Redis Sentinel on Instances is monitored using sfAgent Configured with Redisdb Plugin. When Sentinel is Configured.

Redis sentinel plugin was tested with 6.2.6 and 5.0.7 sentinel versions with ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS.

note

The configurations given below apply only to the Redis Sentinel setup on an instance.

Metrics plugin

Collects metric data organized in following  documentType under metrics index: 

  • redisDetails
  • redisStat
  • redisPersistence
  • masterReplication
  • slaveReplication

Logger plugin

Collects general logs and slow query logs. General logs are sent to log index whereas slow queries are sent to metrics index under documentType:redisSlowLogs

Pre-requisites 

Enable Slow Logs  

In redis.cnf file, uncomment and configure the variables shown below: 

slowlog-log-slower-than= 1
slowlog-max-len=100

Or, login to redis with root user and execute below commands 

config set slowlog-log-slower-than= 1;   
config set slowlog-max-len=100;

Configuration 

Refer to sfAgent to install and automatically generate plugin configurations. User can also manually add the configuration shown below to config.yaml under /opt/sfagent/directory

Metrics:
plugins:
    - name: redisdb
  enabled: true 
      interval: 60 
      config:
        documentsTypes:
          - keyspaceStat 
          - redisDetails 
          - redisPersistence
          - redisStat
          - slowLogs
          - masterReplication
          - slaveReplication
        password: < password >
        port: 6379 
        user: < username >
        sentinelIp: < Ipaddress >
        sentinelPort: 26379
        sentinelMaster: < Mastername >
logging:
  plugins:
    - name: redis-sentinel 
      enabled: true 
      config:
         log_path: /var/log/redis/sentinel.log

Viewing data and dashboards     

  • Data generated by plugin can be viewed in browse data page inside the respective application under plugin=redisdb  and documentType=serverDetails
  • Dashboard for this data can be instantiated by Importing dashboard template RedisReplication to the application dashboard.