GitHub user shivaam created a discussion: Add a progress tracker to the Backfill UI (succeeded / failed DAG runs)
## Proposal: Hey everyone 👋 Our team uses backfills heavily, and one pain point we keep running into is the lack of visibility into how a backfill is actually progressing. Right now there's no easy way to answer simple questions like: - How many DAG runs are still pending? - Did any runs fail? - Is this backfill even moving? The DAG Runs UI doesn't show the backfill ID, and the Backfill UI doesn't show the linked DAG runs — so you're left cross-referencing manually or digging through logs. ## What I'm proposing A simple progress tracker on the Backfill detail page that shows the breakdown of linked DAG runs by state: pending, running, succeeded, and failed — similar to what you'd see in a CI pipeline summary. Here's a rough mockup of what it could look like: <img width="1361" height="745" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/ffc794a5-38b8-4868-9f6c-146d4b489888"; /> Nothing fancy — just enough to answer "how's my backfill doing?" at a glance. ## Prior art This has been discussed before in #18317 and #41542, but those were broader UX overhauls. This is intentionally smaller in scope — just surfacing state counts for the DAG runs tied to a given backfill, now that Airflow 3 has proper backfill IDs and a dedicated backfill UI to build on. Happy to submit a PR if there's appetite for this. Would love to hear if others have run into the same issue, or if there are concerns about the approach before I dig in. GitHub link: https://github.com/apache/airflow/discussions/63496 ---- This is an automatically sent email for [email protected]. To unsubscribe, please send an email to: [email protected]
