CELERY-BEAT(1)

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version 5.6.3 · 4 versions
, in ubuntu stonking

💖 CELERY-BEAT(1) 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the celery beat manual page — this is your little guide to starting the beat periodic task scheduler ✨ (and yeah, that's the NAME section right there, folder in the manual name too: this is a page from the celery beat Manual, section 1 🎀)

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

celery beat [OPTIONS]

that's it, that's the whole vibe. you call celery beat and you hand it some [OPTIONS]. slay 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Start the beat periodic task scheduler. 🎀

like... that's literally her job. she's the one who shows up on time, every time, and makes sure your periodic tasks actually happen. main character energy fr fr 👑

🌸 OPTIONS 🌸

  • --detach — dip out and keep running in the background as a daemon. she's not clingy, she'll just live in the background doing her thing 🫶
  • -s, --schedule TEXT — the path to the schedule database. defaults to celerybeat-schedule. and psst — the extension '.db' may be appended to the filename 👀
  • -S, --scheduler TEXT — which scheduler class to use. pick your fave 🎀
  • --max-interval INTEGER — the max number of seconds to sleep between schedule iterations. aka nap time cap 😴
  • -l, --loglevel [DEBUG|INFO|WARNING|ERROR|CRITICAL|FATAL] — logging level. choose your noise level, from DEBUG (everything, all of it, no filter) all the way up to FATAL 💀
  • -f, --logfile TEXT — where the logs go. defaults to stderr 📝
  • --pidfile TEXT — the PID file path. defaults to no PID file (so like, she's unbothered, no tracking number 🦋)
  • --uid TEXT — drops privileges to this user ID 🔻
  • --gid TEXT — drops privileges to this group ID 🔻
  • --umask TEXT — create files and directories with this umask 🛠️
  • --executable TEXT — override the path to the Python executable 🐍
bestie reminder: every one of these is exactly what it says on the tin — don't get cute and invent extra flags, she has a very specific list and this is the whole list 💜

okay and that's the whole page!! it's giving short, it's giving sweet, it's giving "go schedule some periodic tasks, queen" ✨🦋🌸

signing off from the footer, where the source line lives: this is from the celery beat Manual, version 5.6.3, dated 2026-05-14 — periodt 💅👑

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