---
title: Memcached fields
description: Memcached module stats 
url: https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3028/reference/beats/metricbeat/exported-fields-memcached
products:
  - Beats
  - Metricbeat
applies_to:
  - Elastic Cloud Serverless: Generally available
  - Elastic Stack: Generally available
---

# Memcached fields
Memcached module

## memcached


## stats

stats
<definitions>
  <definition term="memcached.stats.pid">
    Current process ID of the Memcached task.
    type: long
  </definition>
  <definition term="memcached.stats.uptime.sec">
    Memcached server uptime.
    type: long
  </definition>
  <definition term="memcached.stats.threads">
    Number of threads used by the current Memcached server process.
    type: long
  </definition>
  <definition term="memcached.stats.connections.current">
    Number of open connections to this Memcached server, should be the same value on all servers during normal operation.
    type: long
  </definition>
  <definition term="memcached.stats.connections.total">
    Numer of successful connect attempts to this server since it has been started.
    type: long
  </definition>
  <definition term="memcached.stats.get.hits">
    Number of successful "get" commands (cache hits) since startup, divide them by the "cmd_get" value to get the cache hitrate.
    type: long
  </definition>
  <definition term="memcached.stats.get.misses">
    Number of failed "get" requests because nothing was cached for this key or the cached value was too old.
    type: long
  </definition>
  <definition term="memcached.stats.cmd.get">
    Number of "get" commands received since server startup not counting if they were successful or not.
    type: long
  </definition>
  <definition term="memcached.stats.cmd.set">
    Number of "set" commands serviced since startup.
    type: long
  </definition>
  <definition term="memcached.stats.read.bytes">
    Total number of bytes received from the network by this server.
    type: long
  </definition>
  <definition term="memcached.stats.written.bytes">
    Total number of bytes send to the network by this server.
    type: long
  </definition>
  <definition term="memcached.stats.items.current">
    Number of items currently in this server's cache.
    type: long
  </definition>
  <definition term="memcached.stats.items.total">
    Number of items stored ever stored on this server. This is no "maximum item count" value but a counted increased by every new item stored in the cache.
    type: long
  </definition>
  <definition term="memcached.stats.evictions">
    Number of objects removed from the cache to free up memory for new items because Memcached reached it's maximum memory setting (limit_maxbytes).
    type: long
  </definition>
  <definition term="memcached.stats.bytes.current">
    Number of bytes currently used for caching items.
    type: long
  </definition>
  <definition term="memcached.stats.bytes.limit">
    Number of bytes this server is allowed to use for storage.
    type: long
  </definition>
</definitions>