Redis Admin and redis-cli Cheat Sheet

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redis-cli workflows

Shell usage, monitoring, latency inspection, and scripting-friendly output.

Run a single command from shell

Execute one command non-interactively.

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bashANYredisredis-clishell

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redis-cli GET app:name

Print raw output

Return plain output suitable for shell pipelines.

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bashANYredisredis-clioutput

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redis-cli --raw LRANGE jobs 0 -1

Print CSV output

Render replies as CSV.

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bashANYredisredis-clioutput

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redis-cli --csv HGETALL user:1

Run latency doctor

Inspect latency spikes and advice from the server.

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bashANYredisredis-clilatency

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redis-cli --latency-doctor

Track latency continuously

Sample latency continuously at an interval.

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bashANYredisredis-clilatency

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redis-cli --latency-history -i 1

Find big keys

Scan for the largest keys by data type.

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bashANYredisredis-clibigkeys

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redis-cli --bigkeys

Find memory-heavy keys

Scan for keys consuming large amounts of memory.

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bashANYredisredis-climemory

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redis-cli --memkeys

Show live stats

Continuously display ops, mem, clients, and other stats.

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bashANYredisredis-climonitoring

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redis-cli --stat

Scan keys from shell

Stream matching keys to stdout.

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bashANYredisredis-cliscan

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redis-cli --scan --pattern 'user:*'

Dump an RDB snapshot from a live server

Request an RDB file from a live server and save it locally.

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bashANYredisredis-clibackup

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redis-cli --rdb dump.rdb

Monitor every command

Stream every command processed by the server.

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bashANYredismonitordanger

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MONITOR

Useful for debugging, but heavy and potentially unsafe on busy production nodes.

Read slow query log

Show recent slow commands.

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bashANYredisslowlogperformance

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SLOWLOG GET 20

Count slowlog entries

Return how many entries are in the slow log.

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bashANYredisslowlog

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SLOWLOG LEN

Read latest latency events

Show recent named latency spikes.

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bashANYredislatencymonitoring

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LATENCY LATEST

Server-side latency diagnosis

Get a narrative diagnosis of latency events.

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bashANYredislatencymonitoring

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LATENCY DOCTOR

Server administration

Configuration, ACL, clients, and operational controls.

Read configuration values

Read current server configuration values.

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bashANYredisconfigadmin

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CONFIG GET maxmemory

Change a configuration value

Change a config value at runtime.

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bashANYredisconfigadmin

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CONFIG SET maxmemory 1gb

Rewrite config file

Persist runtime config changes back to redis.conf where possible.

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bashANYredisconfigadmin

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CONFIG REWRITE

Terminate a client

Disconnect a matching client connection.

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bashANYredisclientadmin

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CLIENT KILL 127.0.0.1:55000

Pause client processing

Temporarily pause clients for controlled maintenance.

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bashANYredisclientmaintenance

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CLIENT PAUSE 5000 WRITE

Resume paused clients

Resume client processing after a pause.

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bashANYredisclientmaintenance

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CLIENT UNPAUSE

List ACL users

Inspect effective ACL rules.

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bashANYredisaclsecurity

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ACL LIST

Create or update an ACL user

Create or modify a scoped user.

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bashANYredisaclsecurity

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ACL SETUSER app-user on >strongpass ~app:* +GET +SET +DEL

Inspect one ACL user

Read ACL rules for a single user.

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bashANYredisaclsecurity

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ACL GETUSER app-user

Delete ACL users

Delete one or more ACL users.

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bashANYredisaclsecurity

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ACL DELUSER old-user

List ACL categories

List ACL categories or commands inside one category.

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bashANYredisaclsecurity

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ACL CAT

Delete all keys in current DB

Clear the selected database asynchronously.

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bashANYredisflushdbdanger

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FLUSHDB ASYNC

Delete all keys in all DBs

Clear every logical database asynchronously.

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bashANYredisflushalldanger

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FLUSHALL ASYNC

Force a synchronous save

Block the server while creating an RDB snapshot.

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bashANYredispersistencesave

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SAVE

Fork an asynchronous save

Create an RDB snapshot in the background.

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bashANYredispersistencesave

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BGSAVE

Gracefully stop the server

Stop Redis and optionally save current state.

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bashANYredisshutdowndanger

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SHUTDOWN SAVE

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