ability to specify health_check_interval for redis

[L1ghtman2k]

I am currently running in issue where my Django web app periodically loses connection with my Redis. This seems due to the issue discussed in redis/redis-py#1140

something like the health_check_interval option would allow such a connection failure to be fixed.

[James-Quigley]

Also would like the ability to pass this kwarg, or maybe just arbitrary kwargs through to the redis-py connection

[esp4ik]

+1

[WisdomPill]

Hello!

It is already possible to pass **kwargs to py-redis client.

Since when a connection has to be made in ConnectionFactory the REDIS_CLIENT_KWARGS are passed to Redis client.

You can do it with the following setting

CACHES = {
    'default': {
        'BACKEND': 'django_redis.cache.RedisCache',
        'LOCATION': 'redis://localhost:6379',
        'OPTIONS': {
            "REDIS_CLIENT_KWARGS": {"health_check_interval": 30}
        }
    }
}

I am closing this, feel free to reopen if my answer did not help you