---
name: "memcstat"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "libmemcached-tools"
version: "1.1.4-1.1+b2"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/memcstat"
---

# memcstat(1)

libmemcached Documentation

## NAME

memstat - libmemcached Documentation

## SYNOPSIS

memstat \[options\] \[stat args\]

Gather statistics from a server

## DESCRIPTION

**memstat**  dumps the state of *[memcached(1)](/memcached/1.md) servers.* *It prints all data to stdout.*

## OPTIONS

- **-h\|--help**

  *Display help.*

- **-V\|--version**

  *Display version.*

- **-q\|--quiet**

  *Operate quietly.*

- **-v\|--verbose**

  *Operate more verbosely.*

- **-d\|--debug**

  *See -v\|--verbose.*

- **-s\|--servers \<list of servers\>**

  *Specify the list of servers as hostname\[:port\]\[,hostname\[:port\]...\].*

- **-n\|--non-blocking**

  *Enable non-blocking operations.*

- **-N\|--tcp-nodelay**

  *Disable Nagle's algorithm.*

- **-b\|--binary**

  *Enable binary protocol.*

- **-B\|--buffer**

  *Buffer requests.*

- **-u\|--username \<username\>**

  *Use username for SASL authentication.*

- **-p\|--password \<password\>**

  *Use password for SASL authentication.*

- **-A\|--args \<stat\>**

  *Stat args.*

  **DEPRECATED:** *use positional arguments.*

- **-a\|--analyze \[\<arg\>\]**

  *Analyze and print differences of a server cluster.* *A memory and uptime comparison is performed by default.*

  *Options:*

  - **--analyze\[=default\]**

    *Memory and uptime comparison.*

  - **--analyze=***latency*

    *Network latency comparison.*

- **-S\|-server-version**

  *Obtain and print server version(s) only.*

- **--iterations**

  *Iteration count of GETs sent by the latency test (default: 1000).*

## ENVIRONMENT

- **MEMCACHED\_SERVERS**

  *Specify a list of servers.*

## NOTES

### PROGRAM PREFIX

*The prefix of this program is variable, i.e. it can be configured at build time.*

*Usually the client programs of* **libmemcached-awesome** *are prefixed with* **mem***, like* **memcat** *or* **memcp***.*

*It can be configured, though, to replace the prefix with something else like* **mc***, in case of that,* *the client programs of* **libmemcached-awesome** *would be called* **mccat***,* **mccp***, etc. respectively.*

## SEE ALSO

*[memcached(1)](/memcached/1.md)* *[libmemcached(3)](/libmemcached/3.md)*

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  *C/C++ Client Library for memcached*

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  *Working with statistical information from a server*