Redis Statsd Module

The purpose of this module is to get performance stats from redis.

Overview

The module creates a hiredis client and a statsd client. On initialization the module creates another thread that will periodically update the statsd server by running the info command and than update all corresponding gauges.

known issues

1. Some info parmas are not parsed currectly.
2. update interval is not configurable

License: AGPL

How to start using?

Compile

dependancies

• cmake
• pthreads
• hiredis (install via brew or your favourite package manager)
• statsd-c-client (fetch using git submodule)
• RedisModulesSDK ()

Compile

1. fetch submodules, run the following:

git submodule init
git submodule update

2. compile RedisModulesSDK:

cd RedisModulesSDK/rmutil
make

3. go back to main directory, and create a bin directory, run cmake and compile:

cd ../..
mkdir bin
cd bin
cmake ..
make

the module should be in your current directory (bin) named libredis_info_statsd.dylib or libredis_info_statsd.so.

load module

using the loadmodule command, or by configuration file: loadmodule PATH_TO_redis-info-statsd/bin/libredis_info_statsd.dylib

configuration

By default the module will send the metrics to localhost:8125 using the namespace "redis" you can override it by passing 3 arguments to loadmodule: loadmodule PATH_TO_redis-info-stats/bin/libredis_info_statsd.dylib 172.16.0.2 8125 redis-23