cleanstart/redis-exporter repository overview

Container Documentation for Redis-Exporter

A Redis exporter for metrics in particular format. This container enables monitoring and metrics collection from Redis instances, providing detailed insights into Redis performance, memory usage, connections, and other critical operational metrics for enterprise Redis deployments.

📌 Base Foundation: Security-hardened, minimal base OS designed for enterprise containerized environments from Cleanstart Registry.

Key Features Core capabilities and strengths of the Redis exporter

• Exports Redis metrics in Prometheus format
• Supports Redis cluster monitoring
• Custom metric collection and filtering
• Low resource footprint and efficient operation

Common Use Cases Typical scenarios where this exporter is valuable

• Redis performance monitoring in production
• Cluster health monitoring
• Cache efficiency analysis
• Resource utilization tracking

Pull Latest Image Download the Redis exporter container image

docker pull cleanstart/redis-exporter:latest

Production Deployment Deploy Redis exporter with security settings

docker run -d --name redis-exporter \
  -p 9121:9121 \
  --security-opt=no-new-privileges \
  -e REDIS_ADDR=redis://redis:6378 \
  cleanstart/redis-exporter:latest

Development Setup Quick exporter setup for development

docker run -d --name redis-exporter-dev \
  -p 9121:9121 \
  -e REDIS_ADDR=redis://localhost:6379 \
  cleanstart/redis-exporter:latest

Docker Compose Setup Complete exporter service configuration

version: '3.8'
services:
  redis-exporter:
    image: cleanstart/redis-exporter:latest
    container_name: redis-exporter
    restart: unless-stopped
    ports:
      - "9121:9121"
    environment:
      REDIS_ADDR: redis://redis:6379
    security_opt:
      - no-new-privileges:true

Environment Variables Configuration options available through environment variables

Security Best Practices Recommended security configurations and practices

• Use authentication for Redis connections
• Implement network segmentation
• Regular security updates
• Configure proper access controls
• Monitor exporter logs
• Use TLS encryption where possible

Kubernetes Security Context Recommended security context for Kubernetes deployments

securityContext:
  runAsNonRoot: true
  runAsUser: 9121
  runAsGroup: 9121
  readOnlyRootFilesystem: true
  allowPrivilegeEscalation: false
  capabilities:
    drop: ["ALL"]

Multi-Platform Images

docker pull --platform linux/amd64 cleanstart/redis-exporter:latest
docker pull --platform linux/arm64 cleanstart/redis-exporter:latest

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