I am  -1 for changing this especially just to solve duration calculation.
The current behavior is key for drain use case which is very useful.

I don't think I will change my -1 before
https://github.com/apache/airflow/issues/22006 is resolved


On Thu, Apr 24, 2025 at 7:56 PM Brent Bovenzi <br...@astronomer.io.invalid>
wrote:

> Yeah, if we do a similar endpoint we should filter it to only include
> unpaused Dags. We do check if the dag is paused during auto refresh in a
> lot of places.
>
> On Fri, Apr 18, 2025 at 3:44 PM Pedro Nunes Leal
> <pedro.n.l...@tecnico.ulisboa.pt.invalid> wrote:
>
> > A 2025-04-03 19:28, Brent Bovenzi escreveu:
> > > The issue is that duration is based off of start and end dates. If
> > > there is
> > > no end date we usually default to now. But that is misleading when a
> > > dag
> > > run is running but the dag is paused.
> > > Let me take a look at where we use duration in the 3.0 UI and see if we
> > > can
> > > reduce that confusion. We don't have the "5 longest dag runs" in our
> > > new
> > > dashboard page, which replaces cluster activity. If we wanted that
> > > feature
> > > again, we should be mindful of this and filter out paused dags in the
> > > API
> > > request.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Thu, Apr 3, 2025, 1:27 PM Pedro Nunes Leal
> > > <pedro.n.l...@tecnico.ulisboa.pt.invalid> wrote:
> > >
> > >> A 2025-03-31 22:26, Jens Scheffler escreveu:
> > >> > Hi,
> > >> >
> > >> > thanks for working on the bug and raising a PR to fix it.
> > >> >
> > >> > As other commiters also commented I think from product view I'd
> expect
> > >> > a
> > >> > different resolution. We use the "Pause DAG" in most cases for
> > >> > administrative or infrastructure problems to prevent further
> failures
> > >> > and/or to drain infra to switch some backend.
> > >> >
> > >> > I assume when we pause a long-running DAG that is in-between
> execution
> > >> > of tasks we want to really "pause" scheduling, we don't want to set
> it
> > >> > to failed. That would also not be correct because once we un-pause
> the
> > >> > running DAGs should continoue to work. I see no reason marking this
> > >> > failed anf then manually running behind to reset the state later.
> > >> >
> > >> > My view on this is that as also proposed in the discussion of the
> bug,
> > >> > we should rather filter the paused DAG from clouster activity
> > reporting
> > >> > such that paused DAGs are not reported with excessive runtime. Also
> > >> > later if un-paused it would be "right" that the overall DAG runtime
> > was
> > >> > longer than normal (would not expect to deduct the paused time from
> > >> > runtime of the DAG.)
> > >> >
> > >> > If I want (as operator/admin) to really terminate existing running
> > >> > instances I'd rather walk through Browse -> DAG Runs --> Filter for
> > >> > running with paused DAG id and mark them as failed explicitly.
> > >> >
> > >> > Jens
> > >> >
> > >> > On 31.03.25 20:50, Pedro Nunes Leal wrote:
> > >> >> Hello everyone,
> > >> >>
> > >> >> Currently, I'm trying to fix this bug:
> > >> >> https://github.com/apache/airflow/issues/44443
> > >> >>
> > >> >> Basically, the issue is that the DAGs would be stuck on running
> even
> > >> >> though they were paused.
> > >> >> Consequently, the duration of the dag run will keep on increasing
> > even
> > >> >> though the DAG is paused.
> > >> >>
> > >> >> My proposal to solve this problem is changing the DAGs state from
> > >> >> running to failed, when paused, to avoid the increment of their
> > >> >> duration.
> > >> >>
> > >> >> Since this can be an impactful change, I would like to hear what
> > >> >> others think about it.
> > >> >>
> > >> >> Link for the Pull Request:
> > >> >> https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/47557
> > >> >>
> > >> >>
> > >> >>
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> > >> That can be a better approach.
> > >>
> > >> However, if I'm not mistaken, the code related to the cluster activity
> > >> page doesn't exist in Airflow 3 (the version where I'm trying to do
> > >> the
> > >> changes).
> > >>
> > >> So what should I do in this case?
> > >> Is there any other way not involving cluster activity to solve this
> > >> problem?
> > >>
> > >> The change to queued state instead of fail was my proposal at the
> > >> beginning, and it really pauses the DAG.
> > >> This is the type of solution I was thinking, because as I said before
> > >> in
> > >> the pull request, I feel that the cluster activity behavior is just a
> > >> symptom from a bigger problem (the DAGs doesn't really pause, they
> > >> just
> > >> keep running).
> > >>
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> > >>
> > Hello,
> >
> > Any update related to the use of duration in the UI 3.0?
> >
> > Maybe this bug isn't really an issue if cluster activity was removed in
> > the newer version, and it's just something to have in mind in case
> > something similar to cluster activity is implemented in 3.0 UI.
> >
> >  From what I understand, the current behavior of staying on running and
> > the duration increasing is what is expected from the pause
> > functionality.
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