# How does Kirby handle cache refresh with redis?

**URL:** <https://forum.getkirby.com/t/how-does-kirby-handle-cache-refresh-with-redis/35614>\
**Category:** Questions\
**Tags:** v5\
**Created:** [September 18, 2026, 8:45am UTC](https://forum.getkirby.com/t/how-does-kirby-handle-cache-refresh-with-redis/35614 "2026-09-18T08:45:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![ImaCrea](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/forum.getkirby.com/imacrea/32/13129_2.png) [@ImaCrea](https://forum.getkirby.com/u/ImaCrea)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2026, 8:45am UTC](https://forum.getkirby.com/t/how-does-kirby-handle-cache-refresh-with-redis/35614/1 "2026-09-18T08:45:01Z")

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Hi there,

I’m on a Kirby 5.5.3 system and as I’ve seen that [since v5 it’s possible to set redis as cache driver in config](https://getkirby.com/docs/reference/system/options/cache#cache-driver) so I enabled it to test it out.

It seems to work fine and page loading seems faster but I realized that the cache doesn’t seem to flush itself the same as it used to do with default driver. I had to connect to the server and flush manually redis to display new changes on website.

I wonder how it works and if there’s a way I could ensure that any change made on a content through the panel triggers a flushing of what’s needed.

Thanks for your help 🙂

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**Author:** ![distantnative](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/forum.getkirby.com/distantnative/32/11319_2.png) [@distantnative](https://forum.getkirby.com/u/distantnative)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2026, 11:27am UTC](https://forum.getkirby.com/t/how-does-kirby-handle-cache-refresh-with-redis/35614/2 "2026-09-19T11:27:33Z")

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In theory, it should like other cached river flush the whole cache e.g. on page updates via Panel etc.

If this doesn’t work, sounds like a bug in [kirby/src/Cache/RedisCache.php at main · getkirby/kirby · GitHub](https://github.com/getkirby/kirby/blob/main/src/Cache/RedisCache.php#L109-L165)

Have you been able to reproduce it with a plain starterkit/specific redis config? If so, could you [open an issue](https://github.com/getkirby/kirby/issues/new/choose) for it please?

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**Author:** ![ImaCrea](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/forum.getkirby.com/imacrea/32/13129_2.png) [@ImaCrea](https://forum.getkirby.com/u/ImaCrea)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2026, 3:17pm UTC](https://forum.getkirby.com/t/how-does-kirby-handle-cache-refresh-with-redis/35614/3 "2026-09-22T15:17:50Z")

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Thank you. Meanwhile I had to changer hosting provider and we don’t user anymore Redis so I’m afraid I won’t be able to test it out for the moment. Thank you for your time.