Technologies/Redis/redis.info.latency_ms
RedisRedisMetric

redis.info.latency_ms

Redis INFO command latency
Dimensions:None
Available on:DatadogDatadog (1)

Summary

Measures the latency in milliseconds of executing the Redis INFO command, which retrieves server statistics. Under normal conditions, INFO executes in microseconds. Elevated latency (>10ms) indicates severe server-side resource contention, excessive memory usage causing swapping, or I/O saturation. Since monitoring systems frequently poll INFO, high latency here can cascade into monitoring gaps and delayed alerting.

Interface Metrics (1)
DatadogDatadog
Redis INFO command latency
Dimensions:None
Sources
redis.info.latency_msdocs.datadoghq.com
Related Insights (1)
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