The Celery work queue web monitor flower has a --broker option

published Oct 29, 2012 02:24 by admin ( last modified Oct 29, 2012 02:24 )

If you start flower - a web interface that allows you to monitor, inspect and edit things in the Celery work queue system - it will assume you are running RabbitMQ or similar on localhost. As of currently, doing

celery flower --help

...will not reveal that there is a --broker option which allows you to direct flower to monitor another back end (such as Redis on another server for example). Use the celery style url for that. e.g:

celery flower --broker=redis://192.168.1.14:6379/1

This would use database 1 on a Redis server running on its standard port of 6379 on the machine at IP number 192.168.1.14.

celery flower --broker option does not work