Extending Functionality with UI Plugins
Apache Airflow provides a robust and extensible web-based user interface (UI) that allows users to monitor and manage their workflows. While the default Airflow UI offers a wide range of essential features, there are times when you need a more specialized view to gain insights into the performance and health of your workflows.
In this chapter, we will explore the process of creating a custom Airflow UI plugin to display a metrics dashboard. You will gain a basic understanding of HTML/CSS and JavaScript concepts and experience building custom web views with Flask blueprints.
This chapter covers the following topics:
- Understanding Airflow UI plugins
- Creating a metrics dashboard plugin