I recently shared a story about an application that uses Valkey
The application uses PMM to monitor MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB databases.
Today I tried to add Valkey monitoring.
I used the PMM documentation to add an external metrics service.
I also found the blog post helpful.
In my docker-compose I added a service with redis_exporter
version: '3.7'
services:
valkey:
image: valkey/valkey:8
environment:
- ALLOW_EMPTY_PASSWORD=yes
ports:
- "6379:6379"
volumes:
- valkey_data:/data
healthcheck:
test: ["CMD", "redis-cli", "ping"]
interval: 5s
timeout: 3s
retries: 5
redis_exporter:
platform: "linux/amd64"
image: oliver006/redis_exporter:v1.29.0
ports:
- "9121:9121"
command: ["-redis.addr=redis://valkey:6379"]
depends_on:
- valkey
environment:
REDIS_ADDR: redis://valkey:6379
Then I went into PMM in the settings under Inventory and added a new service.
I used redis_exporter as the URL, the /metrics folder and port 9121.
For some reason Inventory was showing Fail, but I saw the metrics in PMM metrics Explorer.
I also downloaded the dashboard in the Grafana gallery and imported it into PMM.
I opened the dashboard and saw that everything was working as it should, made a few queries to see the metrics change.
