Redis Sentinel Note
Introduction
Redis sentinel is the high availability solution offered by Redis. In case of a failure in your Redis cluster, Sentinel will automatically detects the point of failure and bring the cluster back to stable mode without any human intervention. It will monitor your master & slave instances, notify you about changed behaviour, handle automatic failover in case a master is down and act as a configuration provider, so your clients can find the current master instance.
Redis Sentinel runs as a seperate program. You should have atleast 3 Sentinel instances monitoring a master instance and its slaves. Sentinel instances try to find consensus when doing a failover and only an odd number of instances will prevent most problems, 3 being the minimum. In this case one of the Sentinel instances can go down and a failover will still work as (hopefully) the other two instances reach consensus which slave to promote.
One thing about the configurable quorum: this is only the number of Sentinel who have to agree a master is down. You still need N/2 + 1 Sentinels to vote for a slave to be promoted (that N is the total number of all Sentinels ever seen for this pod).
How to check if the sentinel cluster works properly
- Step 1: connect to sentinel and find out the master nodes
# connect to sentinel server
redis-cli -h ${sentienal_host} -p ${sentinel_port}
# use the `info sentinel` command to get sentinel cluster info, you can find the master connection information in the sentinel section
info
# Sentinel
sentinel_masters:1
> sentinel_tilt:0
> sentinel_running_scripts:0
> sentinel_scripts_queue_length:0
> sentinel_simulate_failure_flags:0
> master0:name=mymaster,status=ok,address=172.20.0.3:6379,slaves=0,sentinels=1
# or you can use the sentinel command to get the master address
SENTINEL get-master-addr-by-name master-name ${master-name}
> localhost:26378> sentinel get-master-addr-by-name mymaster
> 1) "172.20.0.3"
> 2) "6379"
- Step 2: connect to the master node
# connect to redis master server
redis-cli -h ${master_host} -p ${master_port}
# once connected, you can use set/get to operate redis
> set foo "bar"
> get foo
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