MONITOR

MONITOR is a debugging command that outputs the whole sequence of commandsreceived by the Redis server. is very handy in order to understandwhat is happening into the database. This command is used directlyvia telnet.

% telnet 127.0.0.1 6379
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to segnalo-local.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
MONITOR
+OK
monitor
keys *
dbsize
set x 6
foobar
get x
del x
get x
set key_x 5
hello
set key_y 5
hello
set key_z 5
hello
set foo_a 5
hello

The ability to see all the requests processed by the server is useful in orderto spot bugs in the application both when using Redis as a database and asa distributed caching system.

In order to end a monitoring session just issue a QUIT command by hand.

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