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Monitor Django Celery Tasks with CronRabbit

Django

The Problem

Django projects using Celery Beat for periodic tasks can experience silent failures when workers are down, Redis is unavailable, or tasks exhaust retries.

The Solution

Add CronRabbit pings inside your Celery task functions. Each periodic task gets its own monitor.

Pattern

Add monitoring inside the @shared_task decorated function, not in the Beat configuration. This verifies actual execution, not just scheduling.

Code Examples

Django Celery task with monitoring

Python
from celery import shared_task
import requests

@shared_task(bind=True, max_retries=3)
def generate_daily_report(self):
    PING = "https://ping.cronrabbit.com/your-id"
    requests.get(f"{PING}/start", timeout=5)
    try:
        from myapp.services import ReportService
        ReportService().generate()
        requests.get(PING, timeout=5)
    except Exception as exc:
        requests.get(f"{PING}/fail", timeout=5)
        raise self.retry(exc=exc)

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