MONITOR

Syntax

1. MONITOR

Time complexity: undefined

MONITOR is a debugging command that streams back every command processed by the Dragonfly server. It can help in understanding what is happening to the database. This command can both be used via redis-cli and via telnet.

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

1. $ redis-cli monitor
2. 1339518083.107412 [0 127.0.0.1:60866] "keys" "*"
3. 1339518087.877697 [0 127.0.0.1:60866] "dbsize"
4. 1339518090.420270 [0 127.0.0.1:60866] "set" "x" "6"
5. 1339518096.506257 [0 127.0.0.1:60866] "get" "x"
6. 1339518099.363765 [0 127.0.0.1:60866] "eval" "return redis.call('set','x','7')" "0"
7. 1339518100.363799 [0 lua] "set" "x" "7"
8. 1339518100.544926 [0 127.0.0.1:60866] "del" "x"

Use SIGINT (Ctrl-C) to stop a MONITOR stream running via redis-cli.

1. $ telnet localhost 6379
2. Trying 127.0.0.1...
3. Connected to localhost.
4. Escape character is '^]'.
5. MONITOR
6. +OK
7. +1339518083.107412 [0 127.0.0.1:60866] "keys" "*"
8. +1339518087.877697 [0 127.0.0.1:60866] "dbsize"
9. +1339518090.420270 [0 127.0.0.1:60866] "set" "x" "6"
10. +1339518096.506257 [0 127.0.0.1:60866] "get" "x"
11. +1339518099.363765 [0 127.0.0.1:60866] "del" "x"
12. +1339518100.544926 [0 127.0.0.1:60866] "get" "x"
13. QUIT
14. +OK
15. Connection closed by foreign host.

Manually issue the QUIT or RESET commands to stop a MONITOR stream running via telnet.

Commands not logged by MONITOR

Because of security concerns, no administrative commands are logged by MONITOR‘s output and sensitive data is redacted in the command AUTH.

Furthermore, the command QUIT is also not logged.

Cost of running MONITOR

Because MONITOR streams back all commands, its use comes at a cost.

Return

Non standard return value, just dumps the received commands in an infinite flow.