Celery beat not picking up periodic tasks

python django celery celerybeat
Rivadiz picture Rivadiz · Oct 24, 2017 · Viewed 15.8k times · Source

I am trying to get started with celery, but I can't get my task up and running. I have installed django-celery-beat and celery4.

My settings file.

Installed apps (with celery packages)

...
'django_celery_beat',
'django_celery_results'

the celery configuration

CELERY_BROKER_URL = 'redis://localhost:6379/0'
CELERY_RESULT_BACKEND = 'redis://localhost:6379'
CELERY_ACCEPT_CONTENT = ['json']
CELERY_TASK_SERIALIZER = 'json'
CELERY_RESULT_SERIALIZER = 'json'

celery.py

from __future__ import absolute_import, unicode_literals
import os
from celery import Celery

# set the default Django settings module for the 'celery' program.
os.environ.setdefault('DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE', 'sandbox.settings')

app = Celery('sandbox')

# Using a string here means the worker doesn't have to serialize
# the configuration object to child processes.
# - namespace='CELERY' means all celery-related configuration keys
#   should have a `CELERY_` prefix.
app.config_from_object('django.conf:settings', namespace='CELERY')

# Load task modules from all registered Django app configs.
app.autodiscover_tasks()


@app.task(bind=True)
def debug_task(self):
    print('Request: {0!r}'.format(self.request))

and my simple task, which i configured to run through the admin panel of django celery beat.

from __future__ import absolute_import, unicode_literals
from sandbox.celery import app


@app.task()
def try_celery():
    print "Trying out Celery"

I am trying to run this task as a periodic task (beat) with cron tab as */2 * * * *

The log I am getting is,

$ celery -A sandbox worker --loglevel=debug

[2017-10-24 14:28:02,999: DEBUG/MainProcess] | Worker: Preparing bootsteps.
[2017-10-24 14:28:03,001: DEBUG/MainProcess] | Worker: Building graph...
[2017-10-24 14:28:03,002: DEBUG/MainProcess] | Worker: New boot order: {Beat, Timer, Hub, Pool, Autoscaler, StateDB, Consumer}
[2017-10-24 14:28:03,017: DEBUG/MainProcess] | Consumer: Preparing bootsteps.
[2017-10-24 14:28:03,017: DEBUG/MainProcess] | Consumer: Building graph...
[2017-10-24 14:28:03,038: DEBUG/MainProcess] | Consumer: New boot order: {Connection, Events, Mingle, Tasks, Control, Agent, Gossip, Heart, event loop}

 -------------- celery@mypc v4.1.0 (latentcall)
---- **** ----- 
--- * ***  * -- Linux-4.9.0-kali3-amd64-x86_64-with-Kali-kali-rolling-kali-rolling 2017-10-24 14:28:03
-- * - **** --- 
- ** ---------- [config]
- ** ---------- .> app:         sandbox:0x7fe519d38610
- ** ---------- .> transport:   redis://localhost:6379/0
- ** ---------- .> results:     redis://localhost:6379/
- *** --- * --- .> concurrency: 2 (prefork)
-- ******* ---- .> task events: OFF (enable -E to monitor tasks in this worker)
--- ***** ----- 
 -------------- [queues]
                .> celery           exchange=celery(direct) key=celery


[tasks]
  . celery.accumulate
  . celery.backend_cleanup
  . celery.chain
  . celery.chord
  . celery.chord_unlock
  . celery.chunks
  . celery.group
  . celery.map
  . celery.starmap
  . sandbox.applications.cats.try_celery
  . sandbox.celery.debug_task

[2017-10-24 14:28:03,053: DEBUG/MainProcess] | Worker: Starting Hub
[2017-10-24 14:28:03,053: DEBUG/MainProcess] ^-- substep ok
[2017-10-24 14:28:03,053: DEBUG/MainProcess] | Worker: Starting Pool
[2017-10-24 14:28:03,197: DEBUG/MainProcess] ^-- substep ok
[2017-10-24 14:28:03,198: DEBUG/MainProcess] | Worker: Starting Consumer
[2017-10-24 14:28:03,199: DEBUG/MainProcess] | Consumer: Starting Connection
[2017-10-24 14:28:03,216: INFO/MainProcess] Connected to redis://localhost:6379/0
[2017-10-24 14:28:03,217: DEBUG/MainProcess] ^-- substep ok
[2017-10-24 14:28:03,217: DEBUG/MainProcess] | Consumer: Starting Events
[2017-10-24 14:28:03,228: DEBUG/MainProcess] ^-- substep ok
[2017-10-24 14:28:03,229: DEBUG/MainProcess] | Consumer: Starting Mingle
[2017-10-24 14:28:03,229: INFO/MainProcess] mingle: searching for neighbors
[2017-10-24 14:28:04,255: INFO/MainProcess] mingle: all alone
[2017-10-24 14:28:04,256: DEBUG/MainProcess] ^-- substep ok
[2017-10-24 14:28:04,256: DEBUG/MainProcess] | Consumer: Starting Tasks
[2017-10-24 14:28:04,273: DEBUG/MainProcess] ^-- substep ok
[2017-10-24 14:28:04,274: DEBUG/MainProcess] | Consumer: Starting Control
[2017-10-24 14:28:04,277: DEBUG/MainProcess] ^-- substep ok
[2017-10-24 14:28:04,277: DEBUG/MainProcess] | Consumer: Starting Gossip
[2017-10-24 14:28:04,281: DEBUG/MainProcess] ^-- substep ok
[2017-10-24 14:28:04,282: DEBUG/MainProcess] | Consumer: Starting Heart
[2017-10-24 14:28:04,284: DEBUG/MainProcess] ^-- substep ok
[2017-10-24 14:28:04,284: DEBUG/MainProcess] | Consumer: Starting event loop
[2017-10-24 14:28:04,285: DEBUG/MainProcess] | Worker: Hub.register Pool...
[2017-10-24 14:28:04,294: WARNING/MainProcess] /home/alexd/.virtualenvs/skate/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/celery/fixups/django.py:202: UserWarning: Using settings.DEBUG leads to a memory leak, never use this setting in production environments!
  warnings.warn('Using settings.DEBUG leads to a memory leak, never '
[2017-10-24 14:28:04,294: INFO/MainProcess] celery@mypc ready.
[2017-10-24 14:28:04,295: DEBUG/MainProcess] basic.qos: prefetch_count->8

why my tasks are not working?

Update

log of running celery as beat

$ celery -A sandbox beat --loglevel=debug
celery beat v4.1.0 (latentcall) is starting.
Stale pidfile exists - Removing it.
__    -    ... __   -        _
LocalTime -> 2017-10-24 15:07:20
Configuration ->
    . broker -> redis://localhost:6379/0
    . loader -> celery.loaders.app.AppLoader
    . scheduler -> celery.beat.PersistentScheduler
    . db -> celerybeat-schedule
    . logfile -> [stderr]@%DEBUG
    . maxinterval -> 5.00 minutes (300s)
[2017-10-24 15:07:20,216: DEBUG/MainProcess] Setting default socket timeout to 30
[2017-10-24 15:07:20,217: INFO/MainProcess] beat: Starting...
[2017-10-24 15:07:20,372: DEBUG/MainProcess] Current schedule:

[2017-10-24 15:07:20,373: DEBUG/MainProcess] beat: Ticking with max interval->5.00 minutes
[2017-10-24 15:07:20,373: DEBUG/MainProcess] beat: Waking up in 5.00 minutes.
[2017-10-24 15:15:43,232: DEBUG/MainProcess] beat: Synchronizing schedule...
[2017-10-24 15:15:43,245: DEBUG/MainProcess] beat: Waking up in 5.00 minutes.

creation of task enter image description here this is how the task is created as a periodic task in the admin.

ps. I changed to interval option, may be some problems with my cron tab? anyway still not working.

Answer

sytech picture sytech · Oct 24, 2017

The root cause, in this case, is that the beat scheduler needs to be started with the appropriate arguments. You supplied the following command:

$ celery -A sandbox worker --loglevel=debug

However, to start celery with a beat schedule, (as opposed to a regular celery worker) you must specify beat rather than worker. Moreover, when using the django_celery_beat extension, it is necessary to use the Database scheduler django_celery_beat.schedulers:DatabaseScheduler rather than the default scheduler celery.beat.PersistentScheduler.

So the corrected command would be:

$ celery -A sandbox beat --loglevel=debug --scheduler django_celery_beat.schedulers:DatabaseScheduler

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