redis-server - Man Page

• Start Redis server, using the default port (6379), and write logs to stdout: redis-server
• Start Redis server, using the default port, as a background process: redis-server --daemonize yes
• Start Redis server, using the specified port, as a background process: redis-server --port port --daemonize yes
• Start Redis server with a custom configuration file: redis-server path/to/redis.conf
• Start Redis server with verbose logging: redis-server --loglevel warning|notice|verbose|debug

tldr.sh

redis-server [ configuration_file ] [ options ] [ --sentinel ]

redis-sentinel [ configuration_file ] [ options ]

Redis is an open source (BSD licensed), in-memory data structure store, used as database, cache and message broker, found at http://redis.io/

The redis-server command is a command line to launch a Redis server.

The redis-sentinel command is a symbolic link to the redis-server command which imply the --sentionel option.

-

Read configuration from stdin.

--sentinel

Run in sentinel mode

--test-memory megabytes

Run a memory check and exit.

--help

-h

Output this help and exit.

--version

-v

Output version and exit.

All parameters described in redis.conf file can be passed as command line option, e.g. --port port

Run the server with default conf

redis-server

Run the server with a configuration file

redis-server /etc/redis/6379.conf

Run the server changing some default options

redis-server --port 7777 --slaveof 127.0.0.1 8888

Run the server with a configuration file and changing some options

redis-server /etc/myredis.conf --loglevel verbose

Run in sentinel mode

redis-server /etc/sentinel.conf --sentinel

redis.conf(5)

See: http://redis.io/support and https://github.com/antirez/redis/issues

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labels.conf(5), PCPCompat(1), pmDiscoverSetup(3), pmproxy(1), pmsearch(1), pmSearchInfo(3), pmSearchSetup(3), pmSearchTextInDom(3), pmSearchTextQuery(3), pmSearchTextSuggest(3), pmseries(1), pmSeriesSetup(3), PMWEBAPI(3), redis.conf(5).

The man page redis-sentinel(1) is an alias of redis-server(1).