Redis has some special commands that mark the client's state, such as
`subscribe` and `blpop`, which mark the client as `CLIENT_PUBSUB` or
`CLIENT_BLOCKED`, and we have metrics for the special use cases.
However, there are also other special commands, like `WATCH`, which
although do not have a specific flags, and should also be considered
stateful client types. For stateful clients, in many scenarios, the
connections cannot be shared in "connection pool", meaning connection
pool cannot be used. For example, whenever the `WATCH` command is
executed, a new connection is required to put the client into the "watch
state" because the watched keys are stored in the client.
If different business logic requires watching different keys, separate
connections must be used; otherwise, there will be contamination. This
also means that if a user's business heavily relies on the `WATCH`
command, a large number of connections will be required.
Recently we have encountered this situation in our platform, where some
users consume a significant number of connections when using Redis
because of `WATCH`.
I hope we can have a way to observe these special use cases and special
client connections. Here I add a few monitoring metrics:
1. `watching_clients` in `INFO` reply: The number of clients currently
in the "watching" state.
2. `total_watched_keys` in `INFO` reply: The total number of keys being
watched.
3. `watch` in `CLIENT LIST` reply: The number of keys each client is
currently watching.
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