Uplance Monitor types Redis
Monitor whether Redis is really answering
Uplance connects to Redis the way your application does, authenticates, and runs a command. An open port proves almost nothing.
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The problem
Redis is listening, the process is up, and every write is being refused because it hit maxmemory — or it is answering reads from a replica that stopped syncing hours ago.
A port check is green through all of it. So is a process check. The first real signal is your application's error rate.
What the check looks at
A real connection
Authenticated with the credentials you give it, exactly as your application authenticates.
A real command
The check sends a command and waits for the reply, so a server that accepts connections but won't answer counts as down.
Response time
How long it took, with anomaly detection that learns what's normal for this hour of the week.
Encrypted credentials
Stored with AES-256-GCM at rest, never written to logs or check history.
And the alert actually arrives
Most monitoring tools are fine until the one time the alert doesn't arrive. Uplance is built so that can't happen quietly.
- Every alert is written to an outbox before it is sent, and retried for about fifty minutes. A restart doesn't lose it.
- Once a week, a real test event is sent through every channel you've configured, and you're told which ones failed.
- If the alert pipeline is in trouble, the dashboard says so — it isn't buried in a log file.
- If the checker itself stops, the health endpoint returns 503 so an outside heartbeat can page you, and your status page says monitoring has stopped instead of showing stale green.
Common questions
- What privileges does the user need?
- Enough to connect and run one trivial command. The check proves Redis accepts connections and answers; it never reads your keys.
- Can it reach Redis on a private network?
- Not from the hosted checkers — they refuse private, loopback and cloud-metadata addresses on purpose. Run a remote agent inside your network and it performs the check there, reporting only the result out.
- Can I alert on a cache that is quietly full?
- Point an API monitor at an endpoint of yours that writes to Redis and returns what it read back. The database monitor proves Redis answers; that one proves it still accepts writes.
- Will the alert actually arrive at 3am?
- It is written to an outbox before it is sent and retried for about fifty minutes, so a flaky webhook can't swallow it. Once a week a real test event goes through every channel you have configured, and you are told which ones failed.
Also monitored
Know it's down before your customers do.
10 monitors, 30 days of history, no credit card