Monitor Redis in Go Apps with Atatus Go Agent and GoRedis v8 Integration

Installation steps

Install Atatus Go Agent and Required Modules

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```
go get go.atatus.com/agent
go get go.atatus.com/agent/module/atgoredisv8
```

Configure Atatus and Set Up Database Connection

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import (
    "github.com/go-redis/redis/v8"

    "go.atatus.com/agent"
    "go.atatus.com/agent/module/atgoredisv8"
)

var redisClient *redis.Client

func main() {
     // Initialize Atatus tracer using environment variables
    tracer := atatus.DefaultTracer
    tracer.Service.LicenseKey = os.Getenv("ATATUS_LICENSE_KEY")
    tracer.Service.AppName = os.Getenv("ATATUS_APP_NAME")
    tracer.Service.Tracing = os.Getenv("ATATUS_TRACING")
    tracer.Service.Analytics = os.Getenv("ATATUS_ANALYTICS")

    redisClient = redis.NewClient(&redis.Options{})

    // Redis commands will be reported as spans within the current transaction.
    redisClient.AddHook(atgoredis.NewHook())
}

func handleRequest(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
     ctx := r.Context () // should be propagated to downstream operations such as database queries , http external API calls.

    // Perform Redis GET command within request context
    val, err := redisClient.Get(ctx, "key").Result()
    ...
}

Clean Up Dependencies

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```
go mod tidy
```
Run the Application

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```
go run main.go
```