Monitoring Redis with Aria Operations

You'd like to monitor Redis with Aria Operations, here's how! Note that I'm doing this in the latest version of Aria Operations, which is 8.18, Release Notes can be found here.

As you've probably discovered, we don't have a Management Pack for Redis, so we'll use a Telegraf Agent. We've discussed using Telegraf Agents several times before, but not yet for Redis or in Operations 8.18, let's go.

Log into Operations and go to Operations - Applications - Manage Telegaf Agents, which is a bit of a change from previous releases.

Search for the VM you'd like to install the Telegraf Agent on.

Select the three dots and Install.

Provide credentials for installation.

Click NEXT and confirm.

Click INSTALL AGENT and we're off.

Took a couple minutes and the Telegraf Agent installation is complete. And you'll notice it discovered the Redis service/application, which requires SDMP and was previously discussed. For more on Service Dsicocvery, check here.

At this point you've installed the Telegraf Agent on the VM, which gives you OS metrics. You can use these in Dashboards, Views, and Reports. You can create Alert/Symptom/Condition combinations against them, and more.

But we want to configure the Telegraf Agent for Redis, so click the three dots next to the Redis service.

Select Add.

Click SAVE and watch the progress.

Once complete, it'll look like this, took a couple minutes.

Back on the VM Summary Page - Metric tab, you'll see the Agent and its metrics/properties.

You can do something similar for all of these Applications/Services.