Understanding Airflow UI plugins

Airflow UI plugins extend the capabilities of the default web interface, enabling users to add custom views and functionalities tailored to specific business requirements. Extending the Airflow UI is particularly useful when incorporating domain-specific metrics, monitoring tools, or visualizations into your Airflow environment.

Plugins need to be registered into a Python class that inherits from the airflow.plugins_manager.AirflowPlugin interface. The plugin class allows you to register blueprints, appbuilder views, custom hooks, and timetables and implement several other customizations that are described in the Airflow documentation. The following code block is an example of the AirflowPlugin class:

class AirflowPlugin:
    # The name of your plugin (str)
    name = None
    # A list of class(es) derived from BaseHook
    hooks = []
    # A list...