G'day!
I monitor: changes_since_last_save, total_commands_processed,
connected_clients, connected_slaves, total_connections_received,
expired_keys, keyspace_hits, keyspace_misses, db0_keys, db0_expires,
mem_fragmentation_ratio, rdb_changes_since_last_save, role,
master_last_io_seconds_ago, used_memory, used_memory_rss.
Useful metrics for monitoring performance are: total_commands_processed,
keyspace_hits, keyspace_misses
Useful metrics for health alerting: (role=master and
connected_slaves=0), (role=slave and master_last_io_seconds_ago>30),
mem_fragmentation_ratio is probably a good one too but I don't know at
what value I should be alerting at!
Shane.