Fetching extra config metrics fails on cloud managed Redis instances
ccorbacho opened this issue · comments
Describe the problem
Attempts to fetch the extra config metrics for a Redis instance fail on cloud managed Redis instances - on at least AWS Elasticache and GCP Memorystore.
{"level":"debug","msg":"c.Do() - err: ERR unknown command 'CONFIG', with args beginning with: 'GET' '*' ","time":"2024-05-17T10:11:09Z"}
{"level":"debug","msg":"c.Do() - done","time":"2024-05-17T10:11:09Z"}
{"level":"debug","msg":"Redis CONFIG err: ERR unknown command 'CONFIG', with args beginning with: 'GET' '*' ","time":"2024-05-17T10:11:09Z"}
CONFIG is not an allowed command on most cloud managed Redis:
- https://cloud.google.com/memorystore/docs/redis/product-constraints
- https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonElastiCache/latest/red-ug/SupportedCommands.html
(This doesn't stop anything else, as the exporter continues onto the next ste of metrics).
What version of redis_exporter are you running?
1.59.0
Running the exporter
N/A (using the Docker image).
Expected behavior
Redis Exporter has a way to disable fetching the config metrics.
e.g. maybe a new environment variable to disable fetching these, so that we don't issue a command that will never succeed (and avoid these error messages when debug level logging is enabled).
Screenshots
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Additional context
Add any other context about the problem here.
I like the idea of adding a flag to skip calling the CONFIG command, I think that makes sense. Alas, I don't have the bandwidth right now to add the feature myself.
Feel free to open a PR, happy to review it.