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Sapnesh Naik
Sapnesh Naik

Reputation: 11656

laravel | How to confirm which caching driver is being used?

I am trying to use redis in my application but I am not sure if my app is using redis or file driver as I can't create tags but I can create normal keys fine.

I have set CACHE_DRIVER=redis and also in my cache.php I have:

'default' => env('CACHE_DRIVER', 'redis'),

also in my database.php there is:

'redis' => [

    'client' => 'predis',

    'default' => [
        'host' => env('REDIS_HOST', '127.0.0.1'),
        'password' => env('REDIS_PASSWORD', null),
        'port' => env('REDIS_PORT', 6379),
        'database' => 0,
    ],

],

The reasons for my suspicion are I cannot create tags and running redis-cli flushall under homestead(ssh) does not seem to get rid of the cahce. I had to use Cache::flush() in laravel instead.

So How can I effectively find out which cache driver my application is using?

Upvotes: 5

Views: 7944

Answers (2)

Mahesh Hegde
Mahesh Hegde

Reputation: 1219

Its pretty simple , you can use redis cli monitor command to check the get/set are happening or not

redis-cli monitor

And try to run the application .. if u able to see the keys then redis cache is running

u can also check the redis key by following command

redis-cli

Then enter following 

keys *

I hope its useful.

Upvotes: 17

bognerf
bognerf

Reputation: 126

You should simply query your Redis DB like so:

redis-cli

Then, being on redis console:

SELECT <DB-NUMBER>

KEYS *

If you see some keys like

1) PREFIX:tag:TAG:key
2) PREFIX:tag:DIFFERENT-TAG:key

it is quite a hint that Laravel is using Redis as its cache backend. Otherwise, take a look at

<YOUR-APP-DIR>/storage/framework/cache

If you find some files/sub-folders in there, it is quite a hint, Laravel is using file-based caching.

Upvotes: 5

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