Ping MySQL to keep connection alive in Django

Setup a connection pool or manually connect the worker as suggested by @ProblemFactory

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/connector-python-connection-pooling.html

connection.connection.ping() will work only with Oracle and MySQL, do not use it.

Right solution is:

from django.db import connection  # works with default connection only, use 'connections'

if connection.is_usable():
    print("ok")
else:
    print("error")