Detect whether Celery is Available/Running

Question

I\'m using Celery to manage asynchronous tasks. Occasionally, however, the celery process goes down which causes none of the tasks to get executed. I would like to be able t

Answer 1

The following worked for me:

import socket
from kombu import Connection

celery_broker_url = "amqp://localhost"

try:
    conn = Connection(celery_broker_url)
    conn.ensure_connection(max_retries=3)
except socket.error:
    raise RuntimeError("Failed to connect to RabbitMQ instance at {}".format(celery_broker_url))