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

I found helpful information in the

Celery Project Workers Guide inspecting-workers

For my case, I am checking to see if Celery is running.

inspect_workers = task.app.control.inspect()
if inspect_workers.registered() is None:
    state = 'FAILURE'
else:
    state = str(task.state) 

You can play with inspect to get your needs.