Check if Redis is running

Redis CLI

There is a simple command to check whether redis is running or not.

Just simply run the following command on your command line.

$ redis-cli ping

If it is running it should respond with the following:

PONG

Homebrew

You can also check with another command if you’re using Homebrew.

$ brew services

It should return all services that are running through Homebrew, this includes redis.

Name   Status  User        File
redis  started davidangulo ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.redis.plist

If it’s running correctly it should have a status of started.

Listening on the default redis port

Redis on a default setup usually listens on port 6379.

We can listen to that port using the following command.

$ lsof -i:6379

We should get an output if it’s running and also check the name if it matches redis in any way, as it might be another process running on port 6379.

COMMAND    PID        USER   FD   TYPE             DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
redis-ser 2593 davidangulo    6u  IPv4 0xef09d3625c99e681      0t0  TCP localhost:6379 (LISTEN)
redis-ser 2593 davidangulo    7u  IPv6 0xef09d36726e52c19      0t0  TCP localhost:6379 (LISTEN)

That’s it. Thank you for reading.