Cleanup taskmeta table of celery

Question

I have Celery running and everything works nice.

Celery uses by default a database table to store the task results, called celery_taskmeta. This table is growing very fast. I read the docs, but I did not find any hint about cleaning up old entries.

Is there a task automatically scheduled by celerybeat, that cleans this table up or do I have to configure something here?

[EDIT]

Is this related with the result backend settings? This is a bit confusing, because documentation says, there is no default value for this. But it seems, that database is the default and it uses the the default configuration of normal Django database configuration.

Answer 1

You can manually clean this table this way:

from djcelery.models import TaskMeta, states TaskMeta.objects.filter(status=states.SUCCESS).delete()