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I am facing the issue with missing values for queue label for the Celery tasks metrics. Basically, I don't see any other value except the default one: celery
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So I tried to run the exporter locally, and here is what I've found:

  • track_task_event only considers queue property upon receiving a task, but the queue name is not always available in this way ( I assume it's available when a queue name is passed directly to the call).

To improve lookup capabilities of the exporter, I've added another way of getting a queue name which must solve the aforementioned issue.

# couldn't find the target task by id
# the dictionary path is missing
logger.warning(f"Couldn't find the target task by its id: {target.id}")
return queue_name
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What happens when an app deployment changes the queue and the celery-exporter doesn't restart?

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It will keep return the old queue name until the cache will have been invalidated.
That was my next question which I missed to include in the header. Pardon for that 🙏

How to not query the broker for each task as it can lead to some performance degradation depending on the producing rate ?

Several strategies comes at once, namely:

  • we need to start another worker to invalidate the cache
  • remove caching for this lookup method at this point
  • decrease the cache size

I've also taken a look into Flower to see how it manages such cases, but couldn't find any relevant parts related to queue name processing.

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Can you add a test?

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