Tools for Inspecting Or Managing Memcached

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memcached related tools

Updated Sep 7, 2012 by tsaavik

Introduction

This is the place to go for all things related to memcached tools. If you have something you want to add, drop a line to the mailing list and we'll get it here.

List of Interesting Memcached Tools

• Cacti Templates: Templates that let you use cacti to monitor your memcached instances.

• http://code.google.com/p/mysql-cacti-templates/wiki/MemcachedTemplates

• http://dealnews.com/developers/cacti/memcached.html

• Dormando's awesome Memcached Top

• http://github.com/dormando/damemtop

• mem-top: A command-line tool that grabs real-time stats from memcache.

• http://code.google.com/p/memcache-top

• Munin plugin: Graphs of traffic/items/memory/etc via Munin

• https://github.com/mhwest13/Memcached-Munin-Plugin" :D

• Wireshark: now understands memcached binary protocol.

• http://www.wireshark.org/download/automated

• A plugin for wireshark that understands the textual protocol.

• http://dev.gear6.com/downloads/wireshark-memcache-protocol-dissector

• mk-query-digest: Maatkit's mk-query-digest understands the textual protocol and can do advanced analysis of the queries.

• http://www.maatkit.org/doc/mk-query-digest.html

• Mempowered: Windows powershell frontend to memcached

• http://mempowered.codeplex.com/

• Brutis: A tool designed to exercise memcache instances.

• http://code.google.com/p/brutis

• Stats Proxy: Allows you to view real-time status via your web browser

• http://code.google.com/p/statsproxy

• Advanced Reporter: Provides information about the most active clients and object keys for your memcached servers.

• http://code.google.com/p/advancedreporter