How to Check the Redis Message Broker While Running the Game Simulator

Install Redis Insight.

Redis Insight is a GUI tool for visualizing data stored in Redis, whether it's in a database context or a message queue. For our use case, we will use redis for both a database and as a message broker.

Add Your Redis Instance in Redis Insight

Open Redis Insight and click Add Redis database. Configure the connection with the following settings: Note: You're connecting to Redis to inspect the published messages for this scenario

Verify a Successful Connection

You will see a popup mentioning that the database was successfully added:

Explore the Redis Stream

In the Redis Insight, simply click the Redis Alias 127.0.0.1:6379. You will see available streams which Redis uses to handle message queues and pub/sub data:

View Game Data

Select the stream where your volleyball game data is being published. In this case, you should see data associated with the game topic that the Game Simulator is publishing to.