Testing Memcached Using Telnet Commands

Troubleshooting memcached is not so transparent as some other technologies, but testing memcached using telnet commands can give us quite some insight on what’s happening under the hood.

The following tutorial on testing memcached with telnet from the command line is a short list of useful commands to inspect a running memcached instance.

How to find the IP address and port to connect ps aux | grep memcached

The above will give us the process running memcached, with listening ip address and port. If ...