Testing with telnet

The simplest method to determine whether Couchbase Server is running is to use Telnet to connect to the server with the memcached text protocol.

Telnet must be installed on your server to connect to Couchbase Server using this method. It is supplied as standard on most platforms, or can be obtained as a separate package and installed via your operating system's standard package manager.

Note: You do not need to use the Telnet method for communicating with your server within your application. Instead, use one of the Couchbase SDKs.

Connect to the server (connecting to the legacy memcached protocol using Moxi):

> telnet localhost1 11211
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1).
Escape character is '^]'.

Make sure it is responding (stats is a great way to check basic health):

stats
STAT delete_misses 0
STAT ep_io_num_write 0
STAT rejected_conns 0
...
STAT time 1286678223
...
STAT curr_items_tot 0
...
STAT threads 4
STAT pid 23871
...
END

Put a key in:

set test_key 0 0 1
a
STORED

Retrieve the key:

get test_key
VALUE test_key 0 1
a
END

Disconnect:

quit
Connection closed by foreign host.
>

All of the memcached protocols commands will work through Telnet.