RedisInsight: Introduction, Installation, and Basic Usage

RedisInsight is an intuitive GUI management tool for Redis, providing monitoring of memory, connections, hit rate, uptime, and an integrated CLI.

Key features include: unique support for Redis Cluster, browser‑based key search and edit, SSL/TLS connections, and memory analysis.

Installation (Linux): download the package, extract, move to /usr/local/redisinsight, set executable permission, configure environment variables (REDISINSIGHT_HOST, REDISINSIGHT_HOST_DIR, LOG_DIR, REDISINSIGHT_PORT), and start the service with nohup.

[root@Redis ~]# ls
anaconda-ks.cfg  redisinsight-linux64-1.11.0
[root@Redis ~]# mkdir /usr/local/redisinsight
[root@Redis ~]# mv redisinsight-linux64-1.11.0 /usr/local/redisinsight/redisinsight-1.11.0
[root@Redis ~]# chmod +x /usr/local/redisinsight/redisinsight-1.11.0

Set environment variables:

# export REDISINSIGHT_HOST=192.168.1.1 >> ~/.bash_profile
# export REDISINSIGHT_HOST_DIR=/usr/local/redisinsight/.redisinsight >> ~/.bash_profile
# source ~/.bash_profile

Start the service:

# nohup /usr/local/redisinsight/redisinsight-linux64-1.4.0 &

Kubernetes deployment: create a redisinsight.yaml defining a NodePort Service (port 80 → targetPort 8001, nodePort 31888) and a Deployment with the redislabs/redisinsight:1.7.0 image, volume mounts, and containerPort 8001.

apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
  name: redisinsight-service
spec:
  type: NodePort
  ports:
  - port: 80
    targetPort: 8001
    nodePort: 31888
  selector:
    app: redisinsight
---
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  name: redisinsight
  labels:
    app: redisinsight
spec:
  replicas: 1
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      app: redisinsight
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        app: redisinsight
    spec:
      containers:
      - name: redisinsight
        image: redislabs/redisinsight:1.7.0
        ports:
        - containerPort: 8001
          protocol: TCP
        volumeMounts:
        - name: db
          mountPath: /db
      volumes:
      - name: db
        emptyDir: {}

After deployment, access the RedisInsight UI via the configured IP and port to view Redis metrics, edit data, and perform memory analysis.