Hey there, Airflow users! Are you tired of unreliable alerts when your DAGs fail or don’t run on schedule? I’ve got some great news for you. A new open-source Airflow provider has just been released, and it solves this problem once and for all. With this provider, you can monitor both schedule health (did the nightly job run?) and execution health (did it finish within 4 hours?) with just a couple lines of code. The best part? It automatically configures timeouts based on your DAG settings.
The provider integrates with Telomere, which has a free tier that covers 12+ daily DAGs. We built this because Airflow’s own alerting can fail if there’s an infrastructure issue, and external cron monitors miss when DAGs start but die mid-execution.
To get started, simply add one line of code to your DAG. For example: `from telomere_provider.utils import enable_telomere_tracking` and then `enable_telomere_tracking(dag)`. That’s it! You can check out the blog post or visit the GitHub repository to learn more.
If you’ve struggled with Airflow monitoring in the past, I’d love to hear your thoughts on this new provider.