How to inspect and cancel Celery tasks by task name

# Retrieve tasks
# Reference: http://docs.celeryproject.org/en/latest/reference/celery.events.state.html
query = celery.events.state.tasks_by_type(your_task_name)

# Kill tasks
# Reference: http://docs.celeryproject.org/en/latest/userguide/workers.html#revoking-tasks
for uuid, task in query:
    celery.control.revoke(uuid, terminate=True)