Monitoring Celery

When our code is pushed to the server, our Celery worker will not be run in the terminal window, it will be run as a background task. Because of this, Celery provides many command-line arguments to monitor the status of your Celery worker and tasks. These commands take the following form:

$ celery –A celery_runner <command>

The main tasks to view the status of your workers are as follows:

  • status: This prints the running workers and if they are up
  • result: When passed a task id, this shows the return value and final status of the task
  • purge: Using this, all messages in the broker will be deleted
  • inspect active: This lists all active tasks
  • inspect scheduled: This lists all tasks that have been scheduled with the eta argument
  • inspect registered ...

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