Queue length metrics ?

[sokoow]

Hiya,

I'm just wondering how easy/hard would it be to implement number of tasks in a queue (to detect whether celery is choking for example) ? Let me know what would be potentially needed pls and if I'd be able to pull it together in a PR as a layman. Greets

[SharpEdgeMarshall]

With redis is easy we could just query the queue length, but there is no easy way to do it that would be compatible with all supported brokers.
Another solution could be keeping a counter but that could easily go out of sync.