Quickly Getting Memcached Stats from the Command-line (CLI)

Published December 10th, 2008

Problem Statement

Once you have memcached installed, you want to know how well it is working out for you. Here we will show you how you can get stats on memcached from the command-line in a hurry.

Getting memcached stats from the command-line

From your terminal app such as putty, do the following:

1. Telnet to your memcached server using the memcached port. For example, if you are running memcached on your localhost on the default port 11211, you can run:

   telnet localhost 11211
   

2. Once connected, enter stats and you will see the current memcached stats as shown in the sample below:

   [root@cassini ~]# telnet localhost 11211
   Trying 127.0.0.1...
   Connected to localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1).
   Escape character is '^]'.
   stats
   STAT pid 16781
   STAT uptime 2891159
   STAT time 1228931142
   STAT version 1.2.6
   STAT pointer_size 32
   STAT rusage_user 0.071989
   STAT rusage_system 0.380942
   STAT curr_items 69
   STAT total_items 249
   STAT bytes 3871
   STAT curr_connections 2
   STAT total_connections 1965
   STAT connection_structures 6
   STAT cmd_get 3270
   STAT cmd_set 249
   STAT get_hits 403
   STAT get_misses 2867
   STAT evictions 0
   STAT bytes_read 62361
   STAT bytes_written 27026
   STAT limit_maxbytes 268435456
   STAT threads 1
   END
   

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