Listens for all requests received by the server in real-time.
MONITOR
MONITOR
is a debugging command that streams back every command processed by the Valkey server. It can help in understanding what is happening to the database. This command can both be used via valkey-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 Valkey as a database and as a distributed caching system.
$ valkey-cli monitor
1339518083.107412 [0 127.0.0.1:60866] "keys" "*"
1339518087.877697 [0 127.0.0.1:60866] "dbsize"
1339518090.420270 [0 127.0.0.1:60866] "set" "x" "6"
1339518096.506257 [0 127.0.0.1:60866] "get" "x"
1339518099.363765 [0 127.0.0.1:60866] "eval" "return server.call('set','x','7')" "0"
1339518100.363799 [0 lua] "set" "x" "7"
1339518100.544926 [0 127.0.0.1:60866] "del" "x"
Use SIGINT
(Ctrl-C) to stop a MONITOR
stream running via valkey-cli
.
$ telnet localhost 6379
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
MONITOR
+OK
+1339518083.107412 [0 127.0.0.1:60866] "keys" "*"
+1339518087.877697 [0 127.0.0.1:60866] "dbsize"
+1339518090.420270 [0 127.0.0.1:60866] "set" "x" "6"
+1339518096.506257 [0 127.0.0.1:60866] "get" "x"
+1339518099.363765 [0 127.0.0.1:60866] "del" "x"
+1339518100.544926 [0 127.0.0.1:60866] "get" "x"
QUIT
+OK
Connection closed by foreign host.
Manually issue the QUIT
or RESET
commands to stop a MONITOR
stream running via telnet
.
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.
Because MONITOR
streams back all commands, its use comes at a cost. The following (totally unscientific) benchmark numbers illustrate what the cost of running MONITOR
can be.
Benchmark result without MONITOR
running:
$ src/valkey-benchmark -c 10 -n 100000 -q
PING_INLINE: 101936.80 requests per second
PING_BULK: 102880.66 requests per second
SET: 95419.85 requests per second
GET: 104275.29 requests per second
INCR: 93283.58 requests per second
Benchmark result with MONITOR
running (valkey-cli monitor > /dev/null
):
$ src/valkey-benchmark -c 10 -n 100000 -q
PING_INLINE: 58479.53 requests per second
PING_BULK: 59136.61 requests per second
SET: 41823.50 requests per second
GET: 45330.91 requests per second
INCR: 41771.09 requests per second
In this particular case, running a single MONITOR
client can reduce the throughput by more than 50%. Running more MONITOR
clients will reduce throughput even more.
Note that, * AUTH
is excluded from the command’s output. * RESET
can be called to exit monitor mode. * AUTH
, HELLO
, EVAL
, EVAL_RO
, EVALSHA
and EVALSHA_RO
are included in the command’s output.
Non-standard return value. Dumps the received commands in an infinite flow.
@admin @dangerous @slow
ACL, ACL CAT, ACL DELUSER, ACL DRYRUN, ACL GENPASS, ACL GETUSER, ACL HELP, ACL LIST, ACL LOAD, ACL LOG, ACL SAVE, ACL SETUSER, ACL USERS, ACL WHOAMI, BGREWRITEAOF, BGSAVE, COMMAND, COMMAND COUNT, COMMAND DOCS, COMMAND GETKEYS, COMMAND GETKEYSANDFLAGS, COMMAND HELP, COMMAND INFO, COMMAND LIST, CONFIG, CONFIG GET, CONFIG HELP, CONFIG RESETSTAT, CONFIG REWRITE, CONFIG SET, DBSIZE, DEBUG, FAILOVER, FLUSHALL, FLUSHDB, INFO, LASTSAVE, LATENCY, LATENCY DOCTOR, LATENCY GRAPH, LATENCY HELP, LATENCY HISTOGRAM, LATENCY HISTORY, LATENCY LATEST, LATENCY RESET, LOLWUT, MEMORY, MEMORY DOCTOR, MEMORY HELP, MEMORY MALLOC-STATS, MEMORY PURGE, MEMORY STATS, MEMORY USAGE, MODULE, MODULE HELP, MODULE LIST, MODULE LOAD, MODULE LOADEX, MODULE UNLOAD, PSYNC, REPLCONF, REPLICAOF, RESTORE-ASKING, ROLE, SAVE, SHUTDOWN, SLOWLOG, SLOWLOG GET, SLOWLOG HELP, SLOWLOG LEN, SLOWLOG RESET, SWAPDB, SYNC, TIME.