diff --git a/Procfile b/Procfile
index b448cb0cc..8c35ab456 100644
--- a/Procfile
+++ b/Procfile
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ web: gunicorn --bind 0.0.0.0:$PORT dandiapi.wsgi --timeout 25
 # This is OK for now because of how lightweight all high priority tasks currently are,
 # but we may need to switch back to a dedicated worker in the future.
 # The queue `celery` is the default queue.
-worker: REMAP_SIGTERM=SIGQUIT celery --app dandiapi.celery worker --loglevel INFO -Q celery,s3-log-processing -B
+worker: REMAP_SIGTERM=SIGQUIT celery --app dandiapi.celery worker --loglevel INFO -Q celery -B
 # The checksum-worker calculates blob checksums and updates zarr checksum files
 checksum-worker: REMAP_SIGTERM=SIGQUIT celery --app dandiapi.celery worker --loglevel INFO -Q calculate_sha256,ingest_zarr_archive
+# The analytics-worker processes s3 log files serially
+analytics-worker: REMAP_SIGTERM=SIGQUIT celery --app dandiapi.celery worker --loglevel INFO --concurrency 1 -Q s3-log-processing
diff --git a/dandiapi/analytics/tasks/__init__.py b/dandiapi/analytics/tasks/__init__.py
index 8e89eb981..562345317 100644
--- a/dandiapi/analytics/tasks/__init__.py
+++ b/dandiapi/analytics/tasks/__init__.py
@@ -90,11 +90,10 @@ def process_s3_log_file_task(bucket: LogBucket, s3_log_key: str) -> None:
                 logger.info(f'Already processed log file {s3_log_key}, embargo: {embargoed}')
             return
 
-        # since this is updating a potentially large number of blobs and running in parallel,
-        # it's very susceptible to deadlocking. lock the asset blobs for the duration of this
-        # transaction. this is a quick-ish loop and updates to blobs otherwise are rare.
-        blobs = BlobModel.objects.select_for_update().filter(blob__in=download_counts.keys())
-        for blob in blobs:
-            BlobModel.objects.filter(blob=blob.blob).update(
-                download_count=F('download_count') + download_counts[blob.blob]
+        # note this task is run serially per log file. this is to avoid the contention between
+        # multiple log files trying to update the same blobs. this serialization is enforced through
+        # the task queue configuration.
+        for blob, download_count in download_counts.items():
+            BlobModel.objects.filter(blob=blob).update(
+                download_count=F('download_count') + download_count
             )