---
id: luigi-monitor
version: "1.1.4"
license: MIT
license_treatment: permissive
maintenance: abandoned
---

# luigi-monitor — Send summary messages of your Luigi jobs to Slack.

License: permissive · Maintenance: abandoned · Downloads: 84.0K/mo

## What it is and what it does

Luigi-monitor wraps Luigi job runs and intercepts their completion events to send a consolidated summary to Slack. Instead of triggering individual emails for each failure (which requires mail server setup), it batches all task failures and missing dependencies into a single Slack message when the pipeline finishes. You can customize the notification by selecting which event types to monitor (success, failures, or missing dependencies) and set a username for the Slack bot.

The package works as a context manager around Luigi's main execution, or can be invoked from the command line with configuration stored in a luigi.cfg file. It currently only supports Slack as a notification channel and has no runtime dependencies beyond Luigi itself.

Use it for:

- Monitor long-running ETL pipelines on ephemeral EMR clusters without configuring email infrastructure
- Get a single daily summary of all pipeline failures instead of being flooded with per-failure emails
- Track task completion status in a team Slack channel for visibility across data engineering workflows
- Suppress success notifications for clean runs while alerting only on failures and missing dependencies

## Worth the install?

AI-flagged interpretation of the facts above — verify before relying.

Sends summary Slack notifications when Luigi job pipelines finish, consolidating failures and missing dependencies into a single message instead of per-failure emails.

No. The package is abandoned (last updated August 2018, repository archived), has not been maintained for years, and compatibility with current Luigi and Python versions is uncertain. For active Luigi monitoring, consider a maintained alternative or implement Slack integration directly in your pipeline code.

## Install

pip install luigi-monitor
uv add luigi-monitor
poetry add luigi-monitor

## Installing luigi-monitor

Before you install: Installation is straightforward with no runtime dependencies, but the package is abandoned as of 2019 with no recent maintenance. The repository is archived and has not received updates in years, so compatibility with current Luigi versions or Python releases is uncertain.

License in practice: MIT license is permissive and places no restrictions on use, modification, or distribution in your own projects.

Quickstart:

pip install luigi-monitor

import luigi
from luigi_monitor import monitor

if __name__ == "__main__":
    with monitor(slack_url="<your_slack_url>", max_print=10):
        luigi.run(main_task_cls=MainClass)

Requires a Slack webhook URL and an active Luigi installation; the package has not been updated since 2018 and may not work with recent versions of Luigi or Python.

Verify before relying:

- Compatibility with current Luigi versions and modern Python releases (package last updated 2018)
- Whether Slack webhook format or API changes since 2018 affect notification delivery
- Support for event filtering beyond SUCCESS, DEPENDENCY_MISSING, and FAILURE

## Package facts

- License: MIT (permissive)
- Python support: unspecified
- Install friction: low
- Maintenance: abandoned
- Downloads: 84.0K/month (top 15,000 on PyPI)
- Known vulnerabilities: none known

## Tags

luigi job monitoring slack, pipeline status notifications, luigi failure summary alerts, job completion slack messages, luigi task monitoring, pipeline job notifications, abandoned, slack-integration, luigi

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