diff --git a/compose/production/django/entrypoint b/compose/production/django/entrypoint
index 599841ed..dd8fc324 100755
--- a/compose/production/django/entrypoint
+++ b/compose/production/django/entrypoint
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ set -o nounset
 
 
 # N.B. If only .env files supported variable expansion...
-export CELERY_BROKER_URL="${REDIS_URL}"
+export CELERY_BROKER_URL="${CELERY_BROKER_URL:-${REDIS_URL}}"
 
 
 if [ -z "${POSTGRES_USER}" ]; then
diff --git a/config/settings/base.py b/config/settings/base.py
index b42087fc..0e3bbff6 100644
--- a/config/settings/base.py
+++ b/config/settings/base.py
@@ -490,6 +490,11 @@
 CELERY_BROKER_URL = env("CELERY_BROKER_URL")
 # http://docs.celeryproject.org/en/latest/userguide/configuration.html#std:setting-result_backend
 CELERY_RESULT_BACKEND = CELERY_BROKER_URL
+# Redis broker/backend connection pools are per process. Keep them bounded so
+# web, worker, beat and monitoring replicas cannot accumulate thousands of idle
+# sockets after traffic or pod churn.
+CELERY_BROKER_POOL_LIMIT = env.int("CELERY_BROKER_POOL_LIMIT", default=5)
+CELERY_REDIS_MAX_CONNECTIONS = env.int("CELERY_REDIS_MAX_CONNECTIONS", default=20)
 # http://docs.celeryproject.org/en/latest/userguide/configuration.html#std:setting-accept_content
 CELERY_ACCEPT_CONTENT = ["json"]
 # http://docs.celeryproject.org/en/latest/userguide/configuration.html#std:setting-task_serializer
@@ -721,4 +726,4 @@
 
 
 # LINK TO OLD SCIELO
-SCIELO_OLD_URL = env.str("SCIELO_OLD_URL", default="http://old.scielo.org/")
\ No newline at end of file
+SCIELO_OLD_URL = env.str("SCIELO_OLD_URL", default="http://old.scielo.org/")
diff --git a/config/settings/local.py b/config/settings/local.py
index 77f7fdbd..8c0bd947 100755
--- a/config/settings/local.py
+++ b/config/settings/local.py
@@ -22,6 +22,18 @@
         "LOCATION": "redis://redis:6379",
         "OPTIONS": {
             "CLIENT_CLASS": "django_redis.client.DefaultClient",
+            "CONNECTION_POOL_CLASS": "redis.BlockingConnectionPool",
+            "CONNECTION_POOL_KWARGS": {
+                "max_connections": env.int("REDIS_CACHE_MAX_CONNECTIONS", default=20),
+                "timeout": env.int("REDIS_CACHE_POOL_TIMEOUT", default=2),
+                "health_check_interval": env.int(
+                    "REDIS_HEALTH_CHECK_INTERVAL", default=30
+                ),
+            },
+            "SOCKET_CONNECT_TIMEOUT": env.int(
+                "REDIS_SOCKET_CONNECT_TIMEOUT", default=2
+            ),
+            "SOCKET_TIMEOUT": env.int("REDIS_SOCKET_TIMEOUT", default=2),
         }
     }
 }
diff --git a/config/settings/production.py b/config/settings/production.py
index ab0e4875..785b21b5 100755
--- a/config/settings/production.py
+++ b/config/settings/production.py
@@ -30,6 +30,18 @@
         "LOCATION": env("REDIS_URL"),
         "OPTIONS": {
             "CLIENT_CLASS": "django_redis.client.DefaultClient",
+            "CONNECTION_POOL_CLASS": "redis.BlockingConnectionPool",
+            "CONNECTION_POOL_KWARGS": {
+                "max_connections": env.int("REDIS_CACHE_MAX_CONNECTIONS", default=20),
+                "timeout": env.int("REDIS_CACHE_POOL_TIMEOUT", default=2),
+                "health_check_interval": env.int(
+                    "REDIS_HEALTH_CHECK_INTERVAL", default=30
+                ),
+            },
+            "SOCKET_CONNECT_TIMEOUT": env.int(
+                "REDIS_SOCKET_CONNECT_TIMEOUT", default=2
+            ),
+            "SOCKET_TIMEOUT": env.int("REDIS_SOCKET_TIMEOUT", default=2),
             # Mimicing memcache behavior.
             # https://github.com/jazzband/django-redis#memcached-exceptions-behavior
             "IGNORE_EXCEPTIONS": True,