Chapter 5. Using Redis for application support
This chapter covers
- Logging to Redis
- Counters and statistics
- Discovering city and country from IP address
- Service discovery and configuration
In the last chapter, we spent most of our time talking about how to keep Redis up and running as part of a larger group of systems. In this chapter, we’ll talk about using Redis to support other parts of your environment: from gathering information about the current state of the system with logs and counters, to discovering information about the clients using your system, all the way to configuring your system by using Redis as a directory.
Overall, this chapter offers control of and insight into how your system operates during runtime. As you read along, keep in mind that we’re looking to support the continued running of higher-level applications—that the components we build in this chapter aren’t the applications themselves, but will help to support those applications. This support comes by way of recording information about the applications and application visitors, and a method of configuring applications. Let’s look at the first level of monitoring that we can add through logging.