There's no "Keys" nav button as shown in the screenshot

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There's no "Keys" nav button as shown in the screenshot

Closed this issue 12 years ago · 9 comments

The screenshot on the Redmon readme has a "Keys" navigation item . But I couldn't find it in app.haml :

        .container
          %a.brand Redmon
          %ul.nav
            %li.active{:id => 'dashboard'}
              %a Dashboard
            %li{:id => 'cli'}
              %a CLI 
            %li{:id => 'config'}
              %a Configuration

Is this just a planned item ? If so I think it would be nice if it could be mentioned somewhere.

Answer 1 · 2013-01-16T14:46:31.000Z

I spend a little time thinking through the problem and how best to solve it. The systems that I have employed redis in had just too many keys to make a meaningful UI.

Answer 2 · 2013-01-16T15:00:44.000Z

I'm curious how much keys did you have to handle ?

Answer 3 · 2013-01-16T16:02:37.000Z

Hundreds of thousands of short ttl keys. The issue is that a key navigator would rely on the keys command. My initial idea, to limit the results, was that I would require users to enter a certain amount of chars before I ran the command after which I could do a limited autocomplete or something. Thinking through this I figured it was not worth it and further I didn't want to put unnecessary load on production redis servers. It's like running keys * against your production redis servers, which is probably not a good idea.

I'm open to ideas here for sure.

Answer 4 · 2013-03-31T18:48:38.000Z

Could this feature be conditionally enabled in certain environments (e.g. development)? I think it could be useful in debugging some use cases, like job queuing, where the nature of the environment would serve to naturally limit the number of keys.

Answer 5 · 2013-12-19T15:01:56.000Z

I think it should be a configurable option. Programmers should be aware of what they're doing. If someone want to display keys/values (e.g. because he's looking at the development environment), it's not the best idea to disable him to do so.

An example of how this may look like is here: https://github.com/ErikDubbelboer/phpRedisAdmin (demo: http://dubbelboer.com/phpRedisAdmin/). My teammate installed this phpRedisAdmin and I wanted to replace it with redmon, but, unfortunately, it's missing the most important feature - the key/value browser ;)

PS, I think people would appreciate a word or two about the missing 'Keys' tab in the readme, since it's confusing and extremely hard to google out (this issue is closed)

Answer 6 · 2013-12-19T15:39:58.000Z

Duly noted. I will refresh the images.

Answer 7 · 2013-12-21T19:03:45.000Z

@tkoomzaaskz if you are still looking for a fully featured (including key/value browser) Redis GUI you may want to give a try to Redsmin. We plan to support the SCAN command (with a fallback to keys depending on the redis version) to resolve the same issue @steelThread mentioned above.

Answer 8 · 2013-12-21T19:14:55.000Z

SCAN will be beneficial to solving this problem when it is available. btw redsmin looks pretty nice @FGRibreau. May kick the tires the next time I'm employing redis on a project.

Answer 9 · 2013-12-21T19:21:36.000Z

@steelThread Thanks! [SCAN is available since Redis 2.8 RC6[http://download.redis.io/redis-stable/00-RELEASENOTES), so it's currently available in the latest stable version: 2.8.3. I am really excited about it as it resolves a lot of performance issues when using Redis with GUIs.