Thanks!

I ask here because the Search box on pythonhosted's Airflow docs has no
hits for 'shutdown'.

A sequence diagram and detailed explanation of each state would be useful
documentation :)

Cheers,

Lance Norskog


On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 3:40 PM, Maxime Beauchemin <
[email protected]> wrote:

> It's a poison pill, basically the task instance polls at its own state to
> look for a shutdown state and kills itself if it sees it. It will then
> proceed to send alert emails if any are set up, run the operator's
> `on_kill` method and set its own state to failed.
>
> Max
>
> On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 3:01 PM, Jeremiah Lowin <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Tasks (and jobs) are put in that state if you clear them
> > (clear_task_instances() or “airflow clear”) while they’re running.
> >
> > Jeremiah
> >
> > On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 5:59 PM Lance Norskog <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > What is the 'shutdown' (blue rim) state? How does a task get to that
> > state?
> > >
> > > --
> > > Lance Norskog
> > > [email protected]
> > > Redwood City, CA
> > >
> >
>



-- 
Lance Norskog
[email protected]
Redwood City, CA

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