Introduction

Kanchi is a real-time monitoring system for Celery that bridges the gap between distributed task processing and the developers who need to understand what's happening. If you've spent years squinting at logs or refreshing Flower tabs, this one's for you.

What Kanchi does

Kanchi connects directly to your message broker — no agents, no SDK changes — and gives you real-time visibility into task execution. Tasks, workers, retries, failures, everything you need to debug issues and prevent outages.

Real-time monitoring

• Live task execution tracking via WebSocket connections
• Instant status updates as tasks transition through states
• Automatic connection recovery with minimal latency
• Worker health monitoring with heartbeat tracking

Advanced task management

• Multi-dimensional filtering: status, date range, task name, worker, queue
• Full-text search across task names and metadata
• Detailed retry tracking with parent-child task relationships
• Orphan detection to identify incomplete or abandoned tasks
• Task execution history with complete audit trails

Workflow automation

• Event-driven actions that respond to task failures
• Circuit breaker protection to prevent infinite retry loops
• Slack integration for notifications
• Pre-built workflow templates for common scenarios

Analytics and insights

• Daily task statistics aggregated by status
• Historical trend analysis
• Worker utilization metrics
• Task failure rate tracking
• Performance bottleneck identification

Who Kanchi is for

Kanchi is built for developers and DevOps teams who need intuitive visibility into distributed systems without the operational overhead of traditional monitoring solutions.

You'll appreciate Kanchi if you:

• Run Celery workers in production and need real-time task visibility
• Spend time debugging failed tasks or orphaned jobs
• Want automated responses to task failures without writing custom code
• Need historical task data for performance analysis
• Value developer experience and intuitive interfaces

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