SolbiatiAlessandro opened a new issue #12368: URL: https://github.com/apache/airflow/issues/12368
**Description** Could we introduce a new counter in [Airflow Metrics](https://airflow.apache.org/docs/stable/metrics.html) to track **number of DAGs that are in 'running' state**? I am aware of the existing `dag_processing.processes` counter that is documented as `Number of currently running DAG parsing processes`. This counter track how many dags are being parsed, not how many are runnings. I am aware of the existing `executor.queued_tasks` and `executor.running_tasks`, but they are task-wise and not dag-wise. **Use case / motivation** Consider this example  I want to know how many DAGs are in the state of `running` to understand memory consumption issues and to understand how long is my "queue" of DAGs. To my understanding there is no metric currently that I can use to track that. I propose a counter `executor.running_dags` that would return the number of DAGs in the running state. Does this make sense? Am I missing something? If folks I agree I would be happy to work on a PR :) ---------------------------------------------------------------- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: [email protected]
