What are some useful tips/tools for monitoring/tuning memcached health?

Question

Yesterday, I found this cool script \'memcache-top\' which nicely prints out stats of memcached live. It looks like,

memcache-top v0.6       (default port: 1121         


        

Answer 1

For a production systems, you should really set up active monitoring (with downtime alerts, automated restarts etc.) of Memcache using something like Monit. Here is an example config: Monitoring Memcache with Monit