I am testing below case in Celery doc, but raise ImproperlyConfigured exception. http://docs.celeryproject.org/en/master/userguide/calling.html#id3 Traceback (most recent call last): File "test.py", line 8, in <module> print(r.get(on_message=on_raw_message, propagate=False)) File "/usr/local/python2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/celery/result.py", line 189, in get on_message=on_message, File "/usr/local/python2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/celery/backends/base.py", line 460, in wait_for_pending 'Backend does not support on_message callback') celery.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: Backend does not support on_message callback Test code is: from celery_test.agent import hello from celery_test.celery import app def on_raw_message(body): print(body) r = hello.apply_async(args=[122,34], queue='machine1', routing_key='machine1') print(r.get(on_message=on_raw_message, propagate=False)) Output of celery -A celery_test report [root@zm03 script]# celery -A celery_test report software -> celery:4.0.0 (latentcall) kombu:4.0.0 py:2.7.9 billiard:3.5.0.2 py-amqp:2.1.1 platform -> system:Linux arch:64bit, ELF imp:CPython loader -> celery.loaders.app.AppLoader settings -> transport:amqp results:amqp://guest@192.168.1.201// CELERY_DEFAULT_EXCHANGE_TYPE: 'direct' CELERY_RESULT_SERIALIZER: 'json' timedelta: <type 'datetime.timedelta'> Exchange: <class 'kombu.entity.Exchange'> CELERY_INCLUDE: ['celery_test.agent'] absolute_import: _Feature((2, 5, 0, 'alpha', 1), (3, 0, 0, 'alpha', 0), 16384) Queue: <class 'kombu.entity.Queue'> CELERY_TASK_RESULT_EXPIRES: 3600 CELERT_QUEUES: (<unbound Queue machine1 -> 'agent' -> machine1>, <unbound Queue machine2 -> 'agent' -> machine2>) CELERY_ACCEPT_CONTENT: ['json'] CELERY_TASK_SERIALIZER: 'json' BROKER_URL: u'amqp://guest:********@192.168.1.201:5672//' CELERY_RESULT_BACKEND: u'amqp://guest@192.168.1.201//' CELERY_DEFAULT_EXCHANGE: 'agent' Continue reading...