Redis Instrumentation

This is a basic rundown on getting the redis_exporter on your machine and collecting metrics. Full documentation can be found here.

First, clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/oliver006/redis_exporter.git

Add the following path into "/etc/profile" if not already there

export PATH=/usr/local/go/bin:$PATH

Then change directories into the exporter, build it, and check the version

cd redis_exporter
go build .
./redis_exporter --version

Your go version must be updated to the most recent version. Here are steps to do so:

rm -rf /usr/local/go
wget https://go.dev/dl/go1.21.0.linux-amd64.tar.gz
tar -C /usr/local -xzf go1.21.0.linux-amd64.tar.gz
exit
go version

You can run the exporter like so

cd redis_exporter
./redis_exporter &

The metrics can be found by running this command

curl localhost:9121/metrics