What is the easiest way to find the biggest objects in Redis?

An option was added to redis-cli: redis-cli --bigkeys

Sample output based on https://gist.github.com/michael-grunder/9257326

$ ./redis-cli --bigkeys

# Press ctrl+c when you have had enough of it... :)
# You can use -i 0.1 to sleep 0.1 sec every 100 sampled keys
# in order to reduce server load (usually not needed).

Biggest string so far: day:uv:483:1201737600, size: 2
Biggest string so far: day:pv:2013:1315267200, size: 3
Biggest string so far: day:pv:3:1290297600, size: 5
Biggest zset so far: day:topref:2734:1289433600, size: 3
Biggest zset so far: day:topkw:2236:1318723200, size: 7
Biggest zset so far: day:topref:651:1320364800, size: 20
Biggest string so far: uid:3467:auth, size: 32
Biggest set so far: uid:3029:allowed, size: 1
Biggest list so far: last:175, size: 51


-------- summary -------

Sampled 329 keys in the keyspace!
Total key length in bytes is 15172 (avg len 46.12)

Biggest   list found 'day:uv:483:1201737600' has 5235597 items
Biggest    set found 'day:uvx:555:1201737600' has 47 members
Biggest   hash found 'day:uvy:131:1201737600' has 2888 fields
Biggest   zset found 'day:uvz:777:1201737600' has 1000 members

0 strings with 0 bytes (00.00% of keys, avg size 0.00)
19 lists with 5236744 items (05.78% of keys, avg size 275618.11)
50 sets with 112 members (15.20% of keys, avg size 2.24)
250 hashs with 6915 fields (75.99% of keys, avg size 27.66)
10 zsets with 1294 members (03.04% of keys, avg size 129.40)

redis-rdb-tools does have a memory report that does exactly what you need. It generates a CSV file with memory used by every key. You can then sort it and find the Top x keys.

There is also an experimental memory profiler that started to do what you need. Its not yet complete, and so isn't documented. But you can try it - https://github.com/sripathikrishnan/redis-rdb-tools/tree/master/rdbtools/cli. And of course, I'd encourage you to contribute as well!

Disclaimer: I am the author of this tool.


I am pretty new to bash scripting. I came out with this: 

for line in $(redis-cli keys '*' | awk '{print $1}'); do echo `redis-cli DEBUG OBJECT $line | awk '{print $5}' | sed 's/serializedlength://g'` $line; done; | sort -h

This script

  • Lists all the key with redis-cli keys "*"
  • Gets size with redis-cli DEBUG OBJECT
  • sorts the script based on the name prepend with the size

This may be very slow due to the fact that bash is looping through every single redis key. You have 7m keys you may need to cache the out put of the keys to a file.

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