From 77e0bae8be8c7dc1033a5ac4da9bcb5948d5778b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: DonnieBLT <128622481+DonnieBLT@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2025 13:26:36 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Refactor Redis stats retrieval to use django-redis and
 improve code readability

---
 website/views/core.py | 8 +++-----
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/website/views/core.py b/website/views/core.py
index 291456504..84abf804a 100644
--- a/website/views/core.py
+++ b/website/views/core.py
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@
 from django.views.decorators.csrf import csrf_exempt
 from django.views.decorators.http import require_GET
 from django.views.generic import TemplateView, View
+from django_redis import get_redis_connection
 from requests.auth import HTTPBasicAuth
 from rest_framework import status
 from rest_framework.decorators import api_view
@@ -155,8 +156,8 @@ def check_status(request):
         # Get database connection count
         status["db_connection_count"] = len(connection.queries)
 
-        # Get Redis stats
-        redis_client = redis.StrictRedis(host="localhost", port=6379, db=0)
+        # Get Redis stats using django-redis
+        redis_client = get_redis_connection("default")
         status["redis_stats"] = redis_client.info()
 
         # Add memory profiling information
@@ -677,9 +678,6 @@ def robots_txt(request):
     return HttpResponse("\n".join(lines), content_type="text/plain")
 
 
-import os
-
-
 def get_last_commit_date():
     try:
         return (