How to check task status in Celery?

Question

How does one check whether a task is running in celery (specifically, I\'m using celery-django)?

I\'ve read the documentation, and I\'ve googled, but I can\'t see a

Answer 1

Return the task_id (which is given from .delay()) and ask the celery instance afterwards about the state:

x = method.delay(1,2)
print x.task_id

When asking, get a new AsyncResult using this task_id:

from celery.result import AsyncResult
res = AsyncResult("your-task-id")
res.ready()