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

Try:

task.AsyncResult(task.request.id).state

this will provide the Celery Task status. If Celery Task is already is under FAILURE state it will throw an Exception:

raised unexpected: KeyError('exc_type',)