MONITOR

MONITOR turns the current connection into a live feed of the commands other clients run. It is a debugging tool: use it to see what an application actually sends. Every command shown costs the server extra work, so don’t leave a monitor attached to a busy production server.

Each line has the time (Unix seconds with microseconds), the database and client address in brackets, then the command and its arguments, each quoted. Quotes, backslashes and control characters are escaped, and other non-printable bytes are shown as \xHH.

Some commands are never shown: AUTH, HELLO, MONITOR itself, and administrative commands (those with the admin flag, such as CONFIG, CLIENT and ACL). Passwords in the commands that are shown, such as the AUTH and AUTH2 options of MIGRATE, show as (redacted).

To stop monitoring, close the connection, or send RESET.

Return value

Simple string OK, then a stream of simple strings, one per command, in RESP2 and RESP3.

Examples

127.0.0.1:6379> MONITOR
OK
1790000000.123456 [0 10.0.0.21:40118] "SET" "session:42" "token" "EX" "3600"
1790000000.125901 [0 10.0.0.22:51522] "GET" "session:42"
1790000001.004210 [2 10.0.0.23:39410] "HSET" "user:7" "name" "Ada"

Compatibility

Same output format as Redis 7 and Valkey 8. Commands run inside a Lua script or function are not shown individually in HotKV; the EVAL or FCALL call itself is.

See also

SLOWLOG, CLIENT LIST, AUDIT.EXPORT