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GUI for streamlined Redis application development. Version 3.8.0 via Homebrew Cask; verified from local package data.
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GUI for streamlined Redis application development
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Project history and usage
Redis Insight is Redis's official graphical developer tool for browsing, querying, visualizing, diagnosing, and managing data in Redis deployments.
Project history
Redis Insight grew out of RDBTools, a Redis visualization and memory-analysis product acquired by Redis Labs from HashedIn in April 2019. Redis introduced RedisInsight later in 2019 as a free, multi-platform interface built on RDBTools. Redis Insight 2.0 arrived in 2021 as a complete rewrite using Electron, with a redesigned browser, advanced CLI, visualizations, and embedded learning material.
Adoption history
Redis reported in 2021 that Redis Insight's active-user count had more than doubled during the preceding year. It is distributed as desktop software, a Docker image, and packages through several platform stores, broadening its use across local development and deployed environments.
How it is used
Developers connect Redis databases, browse and modify keys, run commands in the Workbench, inspect slow operations and live command activity, analyze memory, and work with capabilities such as JSON, search, time series, streams, and vector data. Connections can be preconfigured through environment variables or a JSON file selected with RI_PRE_SETUP_DATABASES_PATH.
Why package nerds care
Redis Insight gives Redis users an official graphical counterpart to redis-cli, combining data browsing with a command workbench, profiling, slow-log analysis, memory recommendations, and module-aware visualizations. Its Electron rewrite and Docker distribution make it relevant across both desktop-package and container ecosystems.
Timeline
- April 2019: Redis Labs acquired RDBTools from HashedIn.
- November 2019: RedisInsight was introduced as a free multi-platform Redis GUI.
- November 2021: Redis Insight 2.0 delivered a complete Electron-based rewrite.
Related projects
- Redis Insight complements redis-cli and Redis for VS Code. Its lineage begins with RDBTools, while its interfaces cover Redis Open Source, Redis Cloud, Redis Software, and Redis data structures and modules.
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$RI_PRE_SETUP_DATABASES_PATH- Windows
%RI_PRE_SETUP_DATABASES_PATH%
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page generated2026-11-04
manager version3.8.0
manager updated
local dataok
upstreamnot checked
latest detectednot detected
- infoNo package-manager update timestamp was available.low confidence
- infoRelease/tag comparison is only available for GitHub repositories.https://redis.io/insight/none confidence
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Package metadata
| Package key | cask:redis-insight |
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| Version | 3.8.0 |
| Package manager | Homebrew Cask |
| Package manager page | https://formulae.brew.sh/cask/redis-insight |
| Homepage | https://redis.io/insight/ |
| Upstream docs | https://redis.io/insight/ |
| Source archive | https://s3.amazonaws.com/redisinsight.download/public/releases/3.8.0/Redis-Insight-mac-arm64.dmg |
| SHA-256 | af58c218b09b2a3d10ba6f296969fcd792a6544ff0dbd89845804eab86f05ddb |
| Bottle | not recorded |
| Homebrew post-install | not defined |
| Service | none declared |
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| Source Database | Homebrew cask API |
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| Tap | homebrew/cask |
| Full Token | redis-insight |
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| Auto Updates | yes |
| Deprecated | no |
| Disabled | no |
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