Redis:...entinel(3pm)

💖 NAME 💖

Redis::Fast::Sentinel — bestie, this is how you connect to a Sentinel instance 🦋

(psst, this page lives in the User Contributed Perl Documentation corner of your manual, and the page itself is Redis:...entinel(3pm) 💅)

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

my $sentinel = Redis::Fast::Sentinel->new( ... );
my $service_address = $sentinel->get_service_address('mymaster');
my @masters = $sentinel->get_masters;

okay so that's the whole vibe right there — make one, ask it where stuff is, and get a whole list of masters. iconic. 👑

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

This is a subclass of the Redis::Fast module, but it's been specialized into connecting to a Sentinel instance. That's its whole main character purpose 💅

It inherits from the "Redis::Fast" package — so yes, you get all that goodness for free, no cap. 🫶

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🎀 CONSTRUCTOR 🎀

new

Go read "new" in Redis::Fast for the deets, bestie. Every parameter is supported… except "sentinels" and "service", which are silently ignored. Like, not a warning, not an error, just 🫥 ignored. So don't go passing those and expecting them to do something, fr fr.

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👑 METHODS 👑

All the methods of the "Redis::Fast" package are supported 💖 plus these extra ones below. Not me giving you bonus content. 🎁

get_service_address

Takes the name of a service as a parameter, and then? It returns one of three things:

• void (an empty list) — if the master couldn't be found 😭
• the string 'IDONTKNOW' — if the service is in the sentinel config but literally cannot be reached 💀
• the string "$ip:$port" — if the service was found 🎉 slay!

heads up: that empty-list return is the "no master for you" case, and 'IDONTKNOW' is a completely different vibe — service exists, just unreachable. Two different moods, two different returns. 🙈

get_masters

Returns a list of HashRefs representing all the master redis instances that this sentinel monitors 🧚✨ like a little roster of every master in the building.

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and that's the whole page, bestie — go be a sentinel-whispering legend 💜

perl v5.42.3 · 2026-08-20 · Redis:...entinel(3pm) 🌈