diff --git a/InvenTree/InvenTree/ready.py b/InvenTree/InvenTree/ready.py
index 64161f1a7a..1f942f3637 100644
--- a/InvenTree/InvenTree/ready.py
+++ b/InvenTree/InvenTree/ready.py
@@ -19,6 +19,25 @@ def isRunningMigrations():
     return any((x in sys.argv for x in ['migrate', 'makemigrations', 'showmigrations']))
 
 
+def isInWorkerThread():
+    """Returns True if the current thread is a background worker thread."""
+    return 'qcluster' in sys.argv
+
+
+def isInServerThread():
+    """Returns True if the current thread is a server thread."""
+    if isInWorkerThread():
+        return False
+
+    if 'runserver' in sys.argv:
+        return True
+
+    if 'gunicorn' in sys.argv[0]:
+        return True
+
+    return False
+
+
 def isInMainThread():
     """Django runserver starts two processes, one for the actual dev server and the other to reload the application.
 
@@ -28,7 +47,7 @@ def isInMainThread():
     if 'runserver' in sys.argv and '--noreload' not in sys.argv:
         return os.environ.get('RUN_MAIN', None) == 'true'
 
-    return True
+    return not isInWorkerThread()
 
 
 def canAppAccessDatabase(
diff --git a/InvenTree/InvenTree/tracing.py b/InvenTree/InvenTree/tracing.py
index b14dcc4a0d..3d3eda28a3 100644
--- a/InvenTree/InvenTree/tracing.py
+++ b/InvenTree/InvenTree/tracing.py
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ from opentelemetry.sdk.metrics.export import (
 from opentelemetry.sdk.trace import TracerProvider
 from opentelemetry.sdk.trace.export import BatchSpanProcessor, ConsoleSpanExporter
 
+import InvenTree.ready
 from InvenTree.version import inventreeVersion
 
 # Logger configuration
@@ -42,6 +43,9 @@ def setup_tracing(
         resources_input: The resources to send with the traces.
         console: Whether to output the traces to the console.
     """
+    if InvenTree.ready.isImportingData() or InvenTree.ready.isRunningMigrations():
+        return
+
     if resources_input is None:
         resources_input = {}
     if auth is None:
diff --git a/tasks.py b/tasks.py
index 0634a8cfc5..36e6cc03fc 100644
--- a/tasks.py
+++ b/tasks.py
@@ -672,6 +672,20 @@ def wait(c):
     return manage(c, 'wait_for_db')
 
 
+@task(pre=[wait], help={'address': 'Server address:port (default=0.0.0.0:8000)'})
+def gunicorn(c, address='0.0.0.0:8000'):
+    """Launch a gunicorn webserver.
+
+    Note: This server will not auto-reload in response to code changes.
+    """
+    c.run(
+        'gunicorn -c ./docker/gunicorn.conf.py InvenTree.wsgi -b {address} --chdir ./InvenTree'.format(
+            address=address
+        ),
+        pty=True,
+    )
+
+
 @task(pre=[wait], help={'address': 'Server address:port (default=127.0.0.1:8000)'})
 def server(c, address='127.0.0.1:8000'):
     """Launch a (development) server using Django's in-built webserver.