diff --git a/bookwyrm/templates/settings/celery.html b/bookwyrm/templates/settings/celery.html
index 7ce6553fb..6a3ee6574 100644
--- a/bookwyrm/templates/settings/celery.html
+++ b/bookwyrm/templates/settings/celery.html
@@ -9,6 +9,14 @@
 
 {% block panel %}
 
+<div class="notification">
+    <p>
+    {% trans "You can set up monitoring to check if Celery is running by querying:" %}
+    {% url "settings-celery-ping" as url %}
+    <a href="{{ url }}" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">{{ url }}</a>
+    </p>
+</div>
+
 {% if queues %}
 <section class="block content">
     <h2>{% trans "Queues" %}</h2>
diff --git a/bookwyrm/urls.py b/bookwyrm/urls.py
index cd07cbf00..586af137d 100644
--- a/bookwyrm/urls.py
+++ b/bookwyrm/urls.py
@@ -334,6 +334,9 @@ urlpatterns = [
     re_path(
         r"^settings/celery/?$", views.CeleryStatus.as_view(), name="settings-celery"
     ),
+    re_path(
+        r"^settings/celery/ping/?$", views.celery_ping, name="settings-celery-ping"
+    ),
     re_path(
         r"^settings/email-config/?$",
         views.EmailConfig.as_view(),
diff --git a/bookwyrm/views/__init__.py b/bookwyrm/views/__init__.py
index cb4d79abd..7cfa227a5 100644
--- a/bookwyrm/views/__init__.py
+++ b/bookwyrm/views/__init__.py
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ from .admin.announcements import Announcements, Announcement
 from .admin.announcements import EditAnnouncement, delete_announcement
 from .admin.automod import AutoMod, automod_delete, run_automod
 from .admin.automod import schedule_automod_task, unschedule_automod_task
-from .admin.celery_status import CeleryStatus
+from .admin.celery_status import CeleryStatus, celery_ping
 from .admin.dashboard import Dashboard
 from .admin.federation import Federation, FederatedServer
 from .admin.federation import AddFederatedServer, ImportServerBlocklist
diff --git a/bookwyrm/views/admin/celery_status.py b/bookwyrm/views/admin/celery_status.py
index 0e88f55f1..8c6b9f5a3 100644
--- a/bookwyrm/views/admin/celery_status.py
+++ b/bookwyrm/views/admin/celery_status.py
@@ -1,8 +1,10 @@
 """ celery status """
 from django.contrib.auth.decorators import login_required, permission_required
+from django.http import HttpResponse
 from django.template.response import TemplateResponse
 from django.utils.decorators import method_decorator
 from django.views import View
+from django.views.decorators.http import require_GET
 import redis
 
 from celerywyrm import settings
@@ -50,3 +52,18 @@ class CeleryStatus(View):
             "errors": errors,
         }
         return TemplateResponse(request, "settings/celery.html", data)
+
+
+@require_GET
+# pylint: disable=unused-argument
+def celery_ping(request):
+    """Just tells you if Celery is on or not"""
+    try:
+        ping = celery.control.inspect().ping()
+        if ping:
+            return HttpResponse()
+    # pylint: disable=broad-except
+    except Exception:
+        pass
+
+    return HttpResponse(status=500)