Django Redis Admin¶
Browse every key on your Redis servers from the Django admin you already have.
You have a Redis server next to your Django project and a question about it:
which keys are in there, what do they hold, and when do they expire? Answering
that from redis-cli means remembering SCAN, TYPE, PTTL and a decoder
for whatever your code stored. django-redis-admin puts the same answers in
the Django admin as a searchable, paginated list with one page per key.
The trick underneath is small. A fake queryset talks to Redis with SCAN and a
pipeline of TYPE, PTTL and OBJECT IDLETIME, and the ModelAdmin never
notices it isn’t looking at a database table. Because Redis only stores bytes,
the admin can decode JSON and base64 values for you, selected by a regular
expression on the key.
Highlights¶
Every server, every key type. Strings, lists, sets, hashes and sorted sets from plain servers, master and replica pairs, or Redis Sentinel.
Search and pagination that map onto
SCAN.exact,startswith,endswithandcontainslookups on the key become glob patterns.Decoding by key pattern. JSON and base64 values are decoded before they are shown, and the list flags which keys matched.
Exclusions for keys that aren’t yours. Hide pickled
constance:values or session stores by prefix, regular expression or exact key.Read-only by design. Add, change and delete are refused at the endpoint, so a staff account with the view permission can look but never touch.
Typed and tested. Ships
py.typed, passes mypy, basedpyright and pyrefly in strict mode, and runs at 100% line and branch coverage on Python 3.10 to 3.14 and PyPy with Django 4.2 to 6.1.
New here? Start with the Quick start, then take the A tour of the admin.
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