Remote Management of Workers - celery.task.control

celery.task.control.broadcast(*args, **kwargs)

Broadcast a control command to the celery workers.

Parameters:

• command – Name of command to send.
• arguments – Keyword arguments for the command.
• destination – If set, a list of the hosts to send the command to, when empty broadcast to all workers.
• connection – Custom broker connection to use, if not set, a connection will be established automatically.
• connect_timeout – Timeout for new connection if a custom connection is not provided.
• reply – Wait for and return the reply.
• timeout – Timeout in seconds to wait for the reply.
• limit – Limit number of replies.

celery.task.control.discard_all(*args, **kwargs)

Discard all waiting tasks.

This will ignore all tasks waiting for execution, and they will be deleted from the messaging server.

Returns:the number of tasks discarded.

celery.task.control.flatten_reply(reply)

class celery.task.control.inspect(destination=None, timeout=1)

active(safe=False)

disable_events()

enable_events()

registered_tasks()

reserved(safe=False)

revoked()

scheduled(safe=False)

stats()

celery.task.control.ping(destination=None, timeout=1, **kwargs)

Ping workers.

Returns answer from alive workers.

Parameters:

• destination – If set, a list of the hosts to send the command to, when empty broadcast to all workers.
• connection – Custom broker connection to use, if not set, a connection will be established automatically.
• connect_timeout – Timeout for new connection if a custom connection is not provided.
• reply – Wait for and return the reply.
• timeout – Timeout in seconds to wait for the reply.
• limit – Limit number of replies.

celery.task.control.rate_limit(task_name, rate_limit, destination=None, **kwargs)

Set rate limit for task by type.

Parameters:

• task_name – Type of task to change rate limit for.
• rate_limit – The rate limit as tasks per second, or a rate limit string ("100/m", etc. see celery.task.base.Task.rate_limit for more information).
• destination – If set, a list of the hosts to send the command to, when empty broadcast to all workers.
• connection – Custom broker connection to use, if not set, a connection will be established automatically.
• connect_timeout – Timeout for new connection if a custom connection is not provided.
• reply – Wait for and return the reply.
• timeout – Timeout in seconds to wait for the reply.
• limit – Limit number of replies.

celery.task.control.revoke(task_id, destination=None, **kwargs)

Revoke a task by id.

If a task is revoked, the workers will ignore the task and not execute it after all.

Parameters:

• task_id – Id of the task to revoke.
• destination – If set, a list of the hosts to send the command to, when empty broadcast to all workers.
• connection – Custom broker connection to use, if not set, a connection will be established automatically.
• connect_timeout – Timeout for new connection if a custom connection is not provided.
• reply – Wait for and return the reply.
• timeout – Timeout in seconds to wait for the reply.
• limit – Limit number of replies.