Redis Observability

What it does

When your agent uses it

• Setting up monitoring
• Alerts for a Redis instance
• Diagnosing a performance regression
• Profiling a slow FT.SEARCH query

Example prompts

• “/redis-observability”

Requirements

• Python 3

Workflow steps

3 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

1. 1Monitor these metrics
2. 2Built-in commands for debugging
3. 3Redis Insight

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit a84871d. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

• Tool permissions

  Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

  From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

• Runs code

  No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md (its code samples are python).

  From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

• Network

  Links to these hosts (documentation or services it may open):

  • redis.io

  From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

• Credentials

  Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

  From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Redis Observability loads about 911 tokens when it runs, and up to ~1.4k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 123 tokens; SKILL.md has 303 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it

~123

When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches

~911

With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them

~1.4k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from redis/agent-skills at commit a84871d, republished under its MIT licence (© redis). 303 words, ~911 tokens.

name

redis-observability

description

Redis observability guidance — which metrics to monitor (memory, connections, hit ratio, ops/sec, rejected connections), which built-in commands to reach for during incident triage (SLOWLOG, INFO, MEMORY DOCTOR, CLIENT LIST, FT.PROFILE), and when to use the Redis Insight GUI. Use when setting up monitoring or alerts for a Redis instance, diagnosing a performance regression, profiling a slow FT.SEARCH query, or wiring Redis metrics into Prometheus, Datadog, or similar.

license

MIT

metadata.author

Redis, Inc.

metadata.version

0.1.0

info = redis.info()
hit_ratio = info["keyspace_hits"] / max(1, info["keyspace_hits"] + info["keyspace_misses"])
print(f"Memory:    {info['used_memory_human']}")
print(f"Clients:   {info['connected_clients']}")
print(f"Ops/sec:   {info['instantaneous_ops_per_sec']}")
print(f"Hit ratio: {hit_ratio:.1%}")

for entry in redis.slowlog_get(10):
    print(f"{entry['duration']}μs  {entry['command']}")

© redis, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 2 other files (references) in skills/redis-observability of redis/agent-skills.

• SKILL.md
• references/commands.md
• references/metrics.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit a84871d

Used in 2 other repositories

We found 3 copies of this SKILL.md (exact, near-identical or edited) in other folders, from 2 other GitHub owners. This page covers the copy in redis/agent-skills, which our catalogue first saw on October 7, 2026.

• vemetric/vemetric.agents/skills/redis-observability
• Kilo-Org/kilo-marketplaceskills/redis-observability