Obsidian-Vault/Work/Resources/Redis Cheatsheet.md

Redis Cheatsheet

Memory & Diagnostics

# Overall memory stats
redis-cli INFO memory

# Human-readable used memory
redis-cli INFO memory | grep used_memory_human

# Total number of keys
redis-cli DBSIZE

# Memory usage of a specific key (in bytes)
redis-cli MEMORY USAGE "some:key"

# Find biggest keys per type (safe, non-blocking)
redis-cli --bigkeys

# Top 30 keys by memory usage (scans first 500 keys)
redis-cli --scan --pattern "*" | head -500 | while read key; do
  bytes=$(redis-cli MEMORY USAGE "$key" 2>/dev/null)
  echo "$bytes $key"
done | sort -rn | head -30

# Full scan (slow on large datasets)
redis-cli --scan | while read key; do
  bytes=$(redis-cli MEMORY USAGE "$key" 2>/dev/null)
  echo "$bytes $key"
done | sort -rn | head -50

# Memory doctor -- quick health check
redis-cli MEMORY DOCTOR

Key Inspection

# Count keys matching a pattern
redis-cli --scan --pattern "cache:*" | wc -l
redis-cli --scan --pattern "horizon:*" | wc -l
redis-cli --scan --pattern "queues:*" | wc -l

# Check key type
redis-cli TYPE "some:key"

# Check TTL (-1 = no expiry, -2 = key doesn't exist)
redis-cli TTL "some:key"

# Find keys with no expiry (sample first 100)
redis-cli --scan --pattern "*" | head -100 | while read key; do
  ttl=$(redis-cli TTL "$key")
  if [ "$ttl" = "-1" ]; then echo "NO EXPIRY: $key ($(redis-cli MEMORY USAGE "$key") bytes)"; fi
done

# List all key prefixes and their counts
redis-cli --scan | sed 's/:[^:]*$//' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head -30

Streams

# Stream length
redis-cli XLEN "stream:key"

# Stream info (memory, first/last entry, etc.)
redis-cli XINFO STREAM "stream:key"

# Trim stream to max N entries
redis-cli XTRIM "stream:key" MAXLEN 10000

# Delete a stream entirely
redis-cli DEL "stream:key"

# Read last 5 entries
redis-cli XREVRANGE "stream:key" + - COUNT 5

Hashes, Lists, Sets, Sorted Sets

# Hash: field count and sample fields
redis-cli HLEN "hash:key"
redis-cli HSCAN "hash:key" 0 COUNT 10

# List: length and sample
redis-cli LLEN "list:key"
redis-cli LRANGE "list:key" 0 9

# Set: member count and sample
redis-cli SCARD "set:key"
redis-cli SSCAN "set:key" 0 COUNT 10

# Sorted set: member count and top 10 by score
redis-cli ZCARD "zset:key"
redis-cli ZREVRANGE "zset:key" 0 9 WITHSCORES

Memory Limits & Eviction

# Set memory limit (runtime, no restart)
redis-cli CONFIG SET maxmemory 2gb

# Set eviction policy
redis-cli CONFIG SET maxmemory-policy volatile-lru

# Persist config changes to redis.conf
redis-cli CONFIG REWRITE

# Check current settings
redis-cli CONFIG GET maxmemory
redis-cli CONFIG GET maxmemory-policy
redis-cli CONFIG GET save

Eviction policies

Policy	Behavior
noeviction	Refuse writes when full (default -- dangerous)
volatile-lru	Evict LRU keys that have a TTL set
allkeys-lru	Evict any LRU key
volatile-ttl	Evict keys with shortest TTL first
volatile-random	Evict random keys that have a TTL
allkeys-random	Evict any random key

Persistence

# Disable RDB snapshots (prevents fork that doubles memory)
redis-cli CONFIG SET save ""

# Trigger manual save (blocks until done)
redis-cli SAVE

# Trigger background save (forks -- dangerous if low memory)
redis-cli BGSAVE

# Check last save time
redis-cli LASTSAVE

# Check if background save is in progress
redis-cli INFO persistence | grep rdb_bgsave_in_progress

Bulk Operations

# Delete all keys matching a pattern (use with care)
redis-cli --scan --pattern "prefix:*" | xargs -L 100 redis-cli DEL

# Count + size of keys matching a pattern
redis-cli --scan --pattern "horizon:*" | while read key; do
  redis-cli MEMORY USAGE "$key"
done | awk '{s+=$1} END {printf "Total: %.2f MB\n", s/1024/1024}'

# Flush current database (DESTRUCTIVE)
redis-cli FLUSHDB

# Flush all databases (DESTRUCTIVE)
redis-cli FLUSHALL

Monitoring

# Watch commands in real time (Ctrl+C to stop)
redis-cli MONITOR

# Slow log -- queries that took longer than threshold
redis-cli SLOWLOG GET 10

# Connected clients
redis-cli INFO clients | grep connected_clients

# Stats since startup
redis-cli INFO stats

Config File Locations

/etc/redis/redis.conf          # Debian/Ubuntu default
/etc/redis.conf                # RHEL/CentOS
/etc/redis/6379.conf           # Multi-instance setups