{"categories":[{"label":"Distributed Computing","url":"https://skillfed.io/packages/category/system-distributed-computing"},{"label":"Object Brokering","url":"https://skillfed.io/packages/category/software-development-object-brokering"}],"enrichment":{"capability":"RedBeat is a Celery Beat scheduler that persists scheduled tasks and runtime state in Redis instead of the local filesystem, enabling dynamic task management and multi-instance coordination.","skillfed_tags":["celery","redis","task-scheduling"],"use_cases":["Run Celery Beat across multiple machines or containers with a shared task schedule stored in Redis.","Dynamically add, modify, or remove scheduled tasks at runtime without restarting Beat.","Manage periodic tasks from external systems or languages by writing directly to Redis.","Scale Beat horizontally while preventing duplicate task execution across instances.","Migrate from file-based scheduling to a distributed, fault-tolerant model."],"what_it_does":"RedBeat replaces Celery Beat's default file-based scheduler with a Redis-backed alternative, storing both task definitions and runtime metadata in Redis. This enables you to create, modify, and delete scheduled tasks dynamically without restarting Beat, and to run multiple Beat instances safely against a shared Redis store without accidentally executing duplicate tasks.\n\nIt's built on top of celery, redis, python-dateutil, and tenacity, and is designed for distributed systems where Beat needs to be decoupled from a single machine or process. The scheduler uses a distributed lock to coordinate multiple instances, and supports live task creation from any language with Redis bindings.","worth_installing":"Yes. RedBeat is production-stable (Development Status 5), actively maintained, has no known vulnerabilities, and solves a real problem for teams running distributed Celery deployments. Install it if you need dynamic task scheduling or multi-instance Beat coordination; skip it if you're using a single Beat instance with a static task set."},"id":"celery-redbeat","links":{"html":"https://skillfed.io/packages/celery-redbeat","md":"https://skillfed.io/packages/celery-redbeat.md","pypi":"https://pypi.org/project/celery-redbeat/"},"maintenance":{"status":"active"},"meta":{"latest_release":"2026-07-27","license_spdx":null,"license_treatment":"permissive","name":"celery-redbeat","python_support":"supports_current","summary":"A Celery Beat Scheduler using Redis for persistent storage"},"popularity":{"monthly_downloads":5407560,"position":2107,"tier":"top_5000"},"security":{"n_vulnerabilities":0},"version":"2.4.2"}