[redis] how to check redis instance version?

how to check Redis server version?

I've found in Redis site this command:

$ redis-server

and that should give me (according to the site):

[28550] 01 Aug 19:29:28 # Warning: no config file specified, using the default config. In order to specify a config file use 'redis-server /path/to/redis.conf'
[28550] 01 Aug 19:29:28 * Server started, Redis version 2.2.12
[28550] 01 Aug 19:29:28 * The server is now ready to accept connections on port 6379
... and so forth ...

but I get this instead:

[8719] 04 Feb 14:51:09.009 # Warning: no config file specified, using the default config. In order to specify a config file use redis-server /path/to/redis.conf
[8719] 04 Feb 14:51:09.009 # Unable to set the max number of files limit to 10032 (Operation not permitted), setting the max clients configuration to 3984.
[8719] 04 Feb 14:51:09.009 # Creating Server TCP listening socket *:6379: bind: Address already in use

Which mean I need to configure it, but all I want is the version!

So how do I check Redis server version?

This question is related to redis version

The answer is


if you want to know a remote redis server's version, just connect to that server and issue command "info server", you will get things like this:

...
redis_version:3.2.12
redis_git_sha1:00000000
redis_git_dirty:0
redis_build_id:9c3b73db5f7822b7
redis_mode:standalone
os:Linux 2.6.32.43-tlinux-1.0.26-default x86_64
arch_bits:64
multiplexing_api:epoll
gcc_version:4.9.4
process_id:5034
run_id:a45b2ffdc31d7f40a1652c235582d5d277eb5eec

To get the version of Redis server

redis-server -v

To get the version of Redis client

redis-cli -v


There are two commands, which you can use to check the version of redis

    redis-server -v

or

    redis-server --version

To support the answers given above, The details of the redis instance can be obtained by

$ redis-cli
$ INFO

This gives all the info you may need

# Server
redis_version:5.0.5
redis_git_sha1:00000000
redis_git_dirty:0
redis_build_id:da75abdfe06a50f8
redis_mode:standalone
os:Linux 5.3.0-51-generic x86_64
arch_bits:64
multiplexing_api:epoll
atomicvar_api:atomic-builtin
gcc_version:7.5.0
process_id:14126
run_id:adfaeec5683d7381a2a175a2111f6159b6342830
tcp_port:6379
uptime_in_seconds:16860
uptime_in_days:0
hz:10
configured_hz:10
lru_clock:15766886
executable:/tmp/redis-5.0.5/src/redis-server
config_file:

# Clients
connected_clients:22
....More Verbose

The version lies in the second line :)


Run the command INFO. The version will be the first item displayed.

The advantage of this over redis-server --version is that sometimes you don't have access to the server (e.g. when it's provided to you on the cloud), in which case INFO is your only option.