This is a supervisor script which runs celerybeat in background.

celerybeat.conf

[program:celerybeat]
command=/home/ubuntu/virtual-env/app/bin/python manage.py celery beat
directory=/home/ubuntu/app
environment=C_FORCE_ROOT=true

user=ubuntu
numprocs=1
stdout_logfile=/var/log/celerybeat/access.log
stderr_logfile=/var/log/celerybeat/error.log
autostart=true
autorestart=true
startsecs=10
stopwaitsecs=300
killasgroup=true