+1 to what Daniel wrote.

On Sun, Sep 14, 2025 at 8:11 PM Daniel Standish via dev <
[email protected]> wrote:

> I would like it if we drop the log template model entirely. It’s also
> possible to write to TI field. And better to not allow any context var in
> log template.
>
> On Sun, Sep 14, 2025 at 12:01 AM Zhe-You Liu <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > While reviewing “Fix the write-to-es feature #53821” [1], I found that
> the
> > ElasticsearchTaskHandler (and OpensearchTaskHandler as well) has been
> > broken for a long time since Airflow 3, as we block the DB session, but
> > ElasticsearchTaskHandler still depends on the LogTemplate [2] db model
> for
> > the log writing path [3]. To fix the ElasticsearchTaskHandler in the
> > Airflow 3 security model, we can either:
> >
> >    1.
> >
> >    Drop LogTemplate db model support for ElasticsearchTaskHandler,
> >
> > or
> >
> >    2.
> >
> >    Still support the LogTemplate feature with ElasticsearchTaskHandler by
> >    fetching the LogTemplate db model before we block the DB session and
> >    attaching the LogTemplate attribute to the ExecuteTask workload.
> >
> > For 1.
> >
> > It will be much simpler and will also decouple the ES provider from
> Airflow
> > Core, in my opinion, but with no backward compatibility (we need to
> > introduce a new major version and restrict Airflow 3 to only use the new
> ES
> > major version).
> >
> > Since only ElasticsearchTaskHandler leverages the LogTemplate db model,
> we
> > add the LogTemplate db model in Airflow Core just to support ES and OS
> > providers, but all the other remote log handlers don’t require the
> > LogTemplate db model for either the log read or write path. It seems we
> > couple the ES provider with Airflow Core.
> >
> > For 2.
> >
> > Full compatibility for the ES provider, but much more work needs to be
> done
> > to support ES under the Airflow 3 security model.
> >
> > Here is the full discussion [4] and more context on how we can solve it
> > properly without a workaround by bypassing the DB session restriction.
> >
> > [1] https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/53821
> > [2]
> >
> >
> https://github.com/apache/airflow/blob/0b968e997c9320bf54e53cdec6fd6c617bbdede4/airflow-core/src/airflow/models/tasklog.py#L27-L28
> > [3]
> >
> >
> https://github.com/Owen-CH-Leung/airflow/blob/fix-write-to-es-feature/providers/elasticsearch/src/airflow/providers/elasticsearch/log/es_task_handler.py#L147
> > [4] https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/53821#discussion_r2314359557
> >
> > Looking forward to your feedback! Thanks!
> >
> > Best,
> > Jason
> >
>

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