diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 479828fdd9..3bd365fad2 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -84,6 +84,7 @@ module = [
     "tlds.*",
     "twitter.*",
     "two_factor.*",
+    "uwsgi",
 ]
 ignore_missing_imports = true
 
diff --git a/scripts/restart-server b/scripts/restart-server
index e910604185..7bd64fc5cd 100755
--- a/scripts/restart-server
+++ b/scripts/restart-server
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python3
+import contextlib
 import logging
 import os
 import pwd
@@ -201,10 +202,19 @@ if has_application_server():
         )
         if uwsgi_status.returncode == 0:
             logging.info("Starting rolling restart of django server")
+            with contextlib.suppress(FileNotFoundError):
+                os.unlink("/var/lib/zulip/django-workers.ready")
             with open("/home/zulip/deployments/uwsgi-control", "w") as control_socket:
                 # "c" is chain-reloading:
                 # https://uwsgi-docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/MasterFIFO.html#available-commands
                 control_socket.write("c")
+            n = 0
+            while not os.path.exists("/var/lib/zulip/django-workers.ready"):
+                time.sleep(1)
+                n += 1
+                if n % 5 == 0:
+                    logging.info("...")
+            logging.info("Chain reloading complete")
         else:
             logging.info("Starting django server")
             subprocess.check_call(["supervisorctl", "start", "zulip-django"])
diff --git a/zproject/wsgi.py b/zproject/wsgi.py
index 991a2ff730..3375ad0039 100644
--- a/zproject/wsgi.py
+++ b/zproject/wsgi.py
@@ -25,9 +25,11 @@ setup_path()
 
 os.environ.setdefault("DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE", "zproject.settings")
 
+import contextlib
 from collections.abc import Callable
 from typing import Any
 
+import orjson
 from django.core.wsgi import get_wsgi_application
 
 try:
@@ -67,6 +69,27 @@ try:
         },
         ignored_start_response,
     )
+
+    with contextlib.suppress(ModuleNotFoundError):
+        # The uwsgi module is only importable when running under
+        # uwsgi; development uses this file as well, but inside a
+        # pure-Python server.  The surrounding contextmanager ensures
+        # that we don't bother with these steps if we're in
+        # development.
+        import uwsgi
+
+        if uwsgi.worker_id() == uwsgi.numproc:
+            # This is the last worker to load in the chain reload
+            with open("/var/lib/zulip/django-workers.ready", "wb") as f:
+                # The contents of this file are not read by restart-server
+                # in any way, but leave some useful information about the
+                # state of uwsgi.
+                f.write(
+                    orjson.dumps(
+                        uwsgi.workers(), option=orjson.OPT_INDENT_2, default=lambda e: e.decode()
+                    ),
+                )
+
 except Exception:
     # If /etc/zulip/settings.py contains invalid syntax, Django
     # initialization will fail in django.setup().  In this case, our