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Redis 4.x Cookbook

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Redis 4.x Cookbook

Overview of this book

Redis is considered the world's most popular key-value store database. Its versatility and the wide variety of use cases it enables have made it a popular choice of database for many enterprises. Based on the latest version of Redis, this book provides both step-by-step recipes and relevant the background information required to utilize its features to the fullest. It covers everything from a basic understanding of Redis data types to advanced aspects of Redis high availability, clustering, administration, and troubleshooting. This book will be your great companion to master all aspects of Redis. The book starts off by installing and configuring Redis for you to get started with ease. Moving on, all the data types and features of Redis are introduced in detail. Next, you will learn how to develop applications with Redis in Java, Python, and the Spring Boot web framework. You will also learn replication tasks, which will help you to troubleshoot replication issues. Furthermore, you will learn the steps that need to be undertaken to ensure high availability on your cluster and during production deployment. Toward the end of the book, you will learn the topmost tasks that will help you to troubleshoot your ecosystem efficiently, along with extending Redis by using different modules.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Title Page
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Foreword
Contributors
Preface
13
Windows Environment Setup
Index

Logging


Logging on a production system is important as it is a reflection of past status. When the system malfunctions, we may figure out the root cause of the problem by inspecting and analyzing the logs. In this recipe, we will introduce the logging options in Redis and show you how to interpret the logs of the Redis Server and Sentinels.

Getting ready…

You need to finish the installation of the Redis Server, as we described in the Downloading and installing Redis recipe in Chapter 1Getting Started with Redis. If you would like to inspect the logs of the Redis slave server and Sentinel, you also need to set up an environment with sentinels as we described in the Setting up Sentinel recipe of Chapter 7, Setting up High Availability and Cluster.

How to do it...

The steps for logging options and how to interpret the log are as follows:

  1. To update the log level of Redis, update the loglevel directive in the Redis configuration, here we are changing the log level to debug on a Redis master server...