Redis Live Dashboards

In this tutorial we will use Redis Cloud to create a live dashboard.
Redis is an open source (BSD licensed), in-memory data structure store, used as a database, cache, and message broker.
It's low latency API makes it ideal for fast updating dashboards like Pulse.

Creating a new Redis Instance
Populating Data
Adding a Redis Connection
Adding our First Table
- Adding a Time-Series Chart
Linking Tables and Charts

Creating new Redis Instance

Redis can either be ran locally or you can use Redis Cloud. To keep this tutorial simple we opted for cloud. Simply start a small service in your chosen region. The connection details should be provided, similar to shown:

Populating Redis with Data

To populate some data run the below commands:

zadd hackers 1940 "Alan Kay"
zadd hackers 1957 "Sophie Wilson"

XADD temperatures:us-ny:10007 * temp_f 87.2 pressure 29.69 humidity 46
XADD temperatures:us-ny:10007 * temp_f 83.1 pressure 29.21 humidity 46.5
XADD temperatures:us-ny:10007 * temp_f 81.9 pressure 28.37 humidity 43.7

Add Redis Connection

Download Pulse

Download Pulse. Any platform is fine, then launch pulse.exe or pulse-log.sh. This will open the pulse UI in a web browser.
Click Connections to go to the connections screen.

To add a connection in Pulse goto Connections->"Add Data Connection" and fill in your details.
You can try clicking test to see if the connection works before adding it.

type: Redis
host: redis-16646.c1.eu-west-1-3.ec2.cloud.redislabs.com
port: 16646
database:
username: default
password: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

Adding our First Table

On the dashboards listing page, click add
Click on the newly created dashboard to go into it. Either click on edit or toggle design mode once in the dashboard.
On the component bar, click "Table" to add a grid.
Within the Editor
- Select the Redis server
- Enter the query:
```
TIME
```

Adding a Chart

On the component bar, click add bar chart icon.
Within the Editor
- Select the Redis server
- Enter the query:
```
zrange hackers 0 -1 withscores
```

Well Done

Well done, we've created our Redis Dashboard.

The video demonstrates much more including interactively setting Redis variables from forms. See our Redis connection help page for more information on Redis and our variables page for details on how forms/variables work.

Thanks for watching our demo. Please download Pulse to give it a try for yourself.