Beat is the part of Celery that fires scheduled tasks. It's also the most overlooked part of Celery monitoring. Tasks get dashboards, workers get heartbeats, queues get depth charts. Beat gets a config file and a hopeful "it's been running fine for months." When beat fails, your scheduled work just stops. No errors, no alerts, just silence. This guide covers why beat monitoring is underserved across the Celery ecosystem, what proper beat schedule monitoring should actually cover, and the six specific ways beat fails in production that monitoring needs to catch. Why beat monitoring is overlooked The reason beat monitoring is underserved is structural, not accidental. The tools that dominate Celery monitoring all came from somewhere else, and beat sits in the gap between their primary signals. Flower came from the "what's happening right now" angle. It's a real-time inspector, a web UI for currently-running tasks and currently-online workers.…