Summary
By following the steps outlined in this chapter, you can build a powerful and visually appealing dashboard that provides valuable insights into the performance of your Airflow environment. Creating a custom metrics dashboard with Apache Airflow UI plugins allows you to tailor your monitoring experience to the unique requirements of your workflows. While the default Airflow UI provides essential features, the ability to create custom views tailored to specific business requirements is invaluable. We’ve created a simple dashboard that highlights DAG run success and failure over three separate time frames. Experiment with different visualizations and metrics to make the most of this extensible feature and enhance your workflow management experience.
In the next chapter, we’ll explore how to develop and distribute custom provider packages so that other Airflow users can implement them in their Airflow environments. Building provider packages that can be installed...
