diff --git a/backend/onyx/background/celery/tasks/beat_schedule.py b/backend/onyx/background/celery/tasks/beat_schedule.py
index 3e7b1c45a..7d0aa9e9c 100644
--- a/backend/onyx/background/celery/tasks/beat_schedule.py
+++ b/backend/onyx/background/celery/tasks/beat_schedule.py
@@ -29,6 +29,16 @@ cloud_tasks_to_schedule = [
             "expires": BEAT_EXPIRES_DEFAULT,
         },
     },
+    {
+        "name": f"{ONYX_CLOUD_CELERY_TASK_PREFIX}_check-alembic",
+        "task": OnyxCeleryTask.CLOUD_CHECK_ALEMBIC,
+        "schedule": timedelta(hours=1),
+        "options": {
+            "priority": OnyxCeleryPriority.HIGH,
+            "expires": BEAT_EXPIRES_DEFAULT,
+            "queue": OnyxCeleryQueues.MONITORING,
+        },
+    },
 ]
 
 # tasks that run in either self-hosted on cloud
diff --git a/backend/onyx/background/celery/tasks/monitoring/tasks.py b/backend/onyx/background/celery/tasks/monitoring/tasks.py
index 20782ae7f..921932919 100644
--- a/backend/onyx/background/celery/tasks/monitoring/tasks.py
+++ b/backend/onyx/background/celery/tasks/monitoring/tasks.py
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 import json
+import time
 from collections.abc import Callable
 from datetime import timedelta
+from itertools import islice
 from typing import Any
 
 from celery import shared_task
@@ -10,13 +12,17 @@ from pydantic import BaseModel
 from redis import Redis
 from redis.lock import Lock as RedisLock
 from sqlalchemy import select
+from sqlalchemy import text
 from sqlalchemy.orm import Session
 
 from onyx.background.celery.apps.app_base import task_logger
 from onyx.background.celery.tasks.vespa.tasks import celery_get_queue_length
+from onyx.configs.constants import CELERY_GENERIC_BEAT_LOCK_TIMEOUT
+from onyx.configs.constants import ONYX_CLOUD_TENANT_ID
 from onyx.configs.constants import OnyxCeleryQueues
 from onyx.configs.constants import OnyxCeleryTask
 from onyx.configs.constants import OnyxRedisLocks
+from onyx.db.engine import get_all_tenant_ids
 from onyx.db.engine import get_db_current_time
 from onyx.db.engine import get_session_with_tenant
 from onyx.db.enums import IndexingStatus
@@ -27,6 +33,7 @@ from onyx.db.models import IndexAttempt
 from onyx.db.models import SyncRecord
 from onyx.db.models import UserGroup
 from onyx.redis.redis_pool import get_redis_client
+from onyx.redis.redis_pool import redis_lock_dump
 from onyx.utils.telemetry import optional_telemetry
 from onyx.utils.telemetry import RecordType
 
@@ -456,3 +463,116 @@ def monitor_background_processes(self: Task, *, tenant_id: str | None) -> None:
             lock_monitoring.release()
 
         task_logger.info("Background monitoring task finished")
+
+
+@shared_task(
+    name=OnyxCeleryTask.CLOUD_CHECK_ALEMBIC,
+)
+def cloud_check_alembic() -> bool | None:
+    """A task to verify that all tenants are on the same alembic revision.
+
+    This check is expected to fail if a cloud alembic migration is currently running
+    across all tenants.
+
+    TODO: have the cloud migration script set an activity signal that this check
+    uses to know it doesn't make sense to run a check at the present time.
+    """
+    time_start = time.monotonic()
+
+    redis_client = get_redis_client(tenant_id=ONYX_CLOUD_TENANT_ID)
+
+    lock_beat: RedisLock = redis_client.lock(
+        OnyxRedisLocks.CLOUD_CHECK_ALEMBIC_BEAT_LOCK,
+        timeout=CELERY_GENERIC_BEAT_LOCK_TIMEOUT,
+    )
+
+    # these tasks should never overlap
+    if not lock_beat.acquire(blocking=False):
+        return None
+
+    last_lock_time = time.monotonic()
+
+    tenant_to_revision: dict[str, str | None] = {}
+    revision_counts: dict[str, int] = {}
+    out_of_date_tenants: dict[str, str | None] = {}
+    top_revision: str = ""
+
+    try:
+        # map each tenant_id to its revision
+        tenant_ids = get_all_tenant_ids()
+        for tenant_id in tenant_ids:
+            current_time = time.monotonic()
+            if current_time - last_lock_time >= (CELERY_GENERIC_BEAT_LOCK_TIMEOUT / 4):
+                lock_beat.reacquire()
+                last_lock_time = current_time
+
+            if tenant_id is None:
+                continue
+
+            with get_session_with_tenant(tenant_id=None) as session:
+                result = session.execute(
+                    text(f'SELECT * FROM "{tenant_id}".alembic_version LIMIT 1')
+                )
+
+                result_scalar: str | None = result.scalar_one_or_none()
+                tenant_to_revision[tenant_id] = result_scalar
+
+        # get the total count of each revision
+        for k, v in tenant_to_revision.items():
+            if v is None:
+                continue
+
+            revision_counts[v] = revision_counts.get(v, 0) + 1
+
+        # get the revision with the most counts
+        sorted_revision_counts = sorted(
+            revision_counts.items(), key=lambda item: item[1], reverse=True
+        )
+
+        if len(sorted_revision_counts) == 0:
+            task_logger.error(
+                f"cloud_check_alembic - No revisions found for {len(tenant_ids)} tenant ids!"
+            )
+        else:
+            top_revision, _ = sorted_revision_counts[0]
+
+            # build a list of out of date tenants
+            for k, v in tenant_to_revision.items():
+                if v == top_revision:
+                    continue
+
+                out_of_date_tenants[k] = v
+
+    except SoftTimeLimitExceeded:
+        task_logger.info(
+            "Soft time limit exceeded, task is being terminated gracefully."
+        )
+    except Exception:
+        task_logger.exception("Unexpected exception during cloud alembic check")
+        raise
+    finally:
+        if lock_beat.owned():
+            lock_beat.release()
+        else:
+            task_logger.error("cloud_check_alembic - Lock not owned on completion")
+            redis_lock_dump(lock_beat, redis_client)
+
+    if len(out_of_date_tenants) > 0:
+        task_logger.error(
+            f"Found out of date tenants: "
+            f"num_out_of_date_tenants={len(out_of_date_tenants)} "
+            f"num_tenants={len(tenant_ids)} "
+            f"revision={top_revision}"
+        )
+        for k, v in islice(out_of_date_tenants.items(), 5):
+            task_logger.info(f"Out of date tenant: tenant={k} revision={v}")
+    else:
+        task_logger.info(
+            f"All tenants are up to date: num_tenants={len(tenant_ids)} revision={top_revision}"
+        )
+
+    time_elapsed = time.monotonic() - time_start
+    task_logger.info(
+        f"cloud_check_alembic finished: num_tenants={len(tenant_ids)} elapsed={time_elapsed:.2f}"
+    )
+    return True
diff --git a/backend/onyx/configs/constants.py b/backend/onyx/configs/constants.py
index b64cfcd21..34156324c 100644
--- a/backend/onyx/configs/constants.py
+++ b/backend/onyx/configs/constants.py
@@ -295,6 +295,7 @@ class OnyxRedisLocks:
     ANONYMOUS_USER_ENABLED = "anonymous_user_enabled"
 
     CLOUD_CHECK_INDEXING_BEAT_LOCK = "da_lock:cloud_check_indexing_beat"
+    CLOUD_CHECK_ALEMBIC_BEAT_LOCK = "da_lock:cloud_check_alembic"
 
 
 class OnyxRedisSignals:
@@ -344,6 +345,7 @@ class OnyxCeleryTask:
     AUTOGENERATE_USAGE_REPORT_TASK = "autogenerate_usage_report_task"
 
     CLOUD_CHECK_FOR_INDEXING = f"{ONYX_CLOUD_CELERY_TASK_PREFIX}_check_for_indexing"
+    CLOUD_CHECK_ALEMBIC = f"{ONYX_CLOUD_CELERY_TASK_PREFIX}_check_alembic"
 
 
 REDIS_SOCKET_KEEPALIVE_OPTIONS = {}