Airflow Extension for Visual Studio Code
✅ Now works with Airflow 3.0
🤖 Chat with Airflow
A Visual Studio Code extension to interact with Apache Airflow (v2.x & v3.x) directly from your editor.
Trigger DAGs, pause/unpause, explore DAG runs, view logs, browse code, and more—no browser required.
🔑 Features
DAG List
- Browse all available DAGs in a tree view.
- Filter DAGs by name, owner, active/paused status, tags
- Add your favorite DAGs to favorites to quickly access them
- Add multiple Airflow Servers and switch between them
DAG Actions
- Trigger a DAG with optional config and date
- Pause, or unpause any DAG with a single click
- View source code running on Airflow
DAG Run Explorer
- View past & current DAG runs
- View logs
- See task instances, execution durations, and statuses
DAG Runs View
- Browse all DAG runs across all DAGs for a specific date
- Filter by status (success, failed, running, queued) and specific DAG ID
- See execution details: start date, duration, config, and notes
- Click on any DAG run to open detailed DagView for analysis
New Design & Experience
- Modern UI: Completely refreshed design for Admin and Report views with consistent theming
- Smart Log View: Enhanced log viewer integrated with AI for instant analysis
- Smart Controls: Context-aware Trigger/Cancel buttons that appear based on DAG state
- Navigation: Jump to any view using
@airflow commands
AI Airflow Assistant
- Get AI-powered assistance for analyzing DAG logs and troubleshooting issues
- Click "Ask AI" in the DagView to open the AI chat interface
- In the Chat, use
@airflow to ask questions and execute commands like triggering DAGs, pausing/unpausing, checking failed runs, and more
- AI analyzes DAG code and logs to provide insights and recommendations
- Integrated with VS Code's native chat interface for seamless interaction
- 24 language model tools for intelligent DAG control and monitoring: trigger runs, pause/unpause DAGs, check failed runs, analyze latest DAG execution, view run history, stop running DAGs, get source code, navigation, and more
- Use
@airflow in the chat to access all AI-powered tools
The extension provides 24 language model tools that integrate with VS Code's AI chat. Use @airflow in the chat to access these tools.
Trigger DAG Run
- Purpose: Execute a DAG with optional configuration
- Sample Prompts:
@airflow trigger data_pipeline_dag@airflow trigger etl_job_dag with config {"max_workers": 10}@airflow run my_dag on 2025-12-03
Pause DAG
- Purpose: Stop new DAG runs from being scheduled
- Sample Prompts:
@airflow pause data_pipeline_dag@airflow disable staging_etl_dag@airflow pause all failing dags
Unpause DAG
- Purpose: Enable scheduling for a paused DAG
- Sample Prompts:
@airflow unpause data_pipeline_dag@airflow activate my_dag@airflow resume production_job
Stop DAG Run
- Purpose: Terminate a currently running DAG execution
- Sample Prompts:
@airflow stop data_pipeline_dag run@airflow cancel current run of my_dag@airflow kill the running data_ingestion_dag
Get DAG Runs
- Purpose: View execution history for a specific DAG with optional date filter
- Sample Prompts:
@airflow get dag runs for api_data_ingestion_dag@airflow show runs of data_pipeline_dag on 2025-12-03@airflow list runs for etl_job_dag from last week
Get DAG History
- Purpose: View DAG run history on a specific date with status, duration, and notes
- Sample Prompts:
@airflow get dag history of api_data_ingestion_dag@airflow show history for data_pipeline_dag on 2025-12-02@airflow view past runs of my_dag today
Get Failed Runs
- Purpose: Identify and analyze failed DAG runs across the system
- Sample Prompts:
@airflow get failed runs@airflow show failed dags from last 24 hours@airflow which dags failed in the last 48 hours
List Active DAGs
- Purpose: View all currently enabled DAGs
- Sample Prompts:
@airflow list active dags@airflow show all running dags@airflow get enabled dags
List Paused DAGs
- Purpose: View all currently disabled DAGs
- Sample Prompts:
@airflow list paused dags@airflow show disabled dags@airflow get all paused dags
Get Running DAGs
- Purpose: List all DAGs that currently have running or queued tasks
- Sample Prompts:
@airflow get running dags@airflow get active runs@airflow what is running now?
Analyse DAG Latest Run
- Purpose: Comprehensive diagnostic report of the latest DAG execution including tasks, logs, and source code
- Sample Prompts:
@airflow analyze api_data_ingestion_dag@airflow get full diagnostics for data_pipeline_dag@airflow show latest execution details and logs for etl_job_dag@airflow what went wrong with my_dag last run
Get DAG Run Detail
- Purpose: Deep dive analysis of a specific DAG run ID
- Sample Prompts:
@airflow analyze run <run_id> of <dag_id>@airflow get run details for dag_id=my_dag run_id=manual__2023...
Get DAG Source Code
- Purpose: Retrieve and view the Python source code of a DAG
- Sample Prompts:
@airflow review source code for data_pipeline_dag@airflow show source code for data_pipeline_dag@airflow get code for my_etl_dag@airflow let me see the implementation of api_ingestion_dag
AI Chat Analysis
- Purpose: Get AI-powered insights and recommendations using all available tools
- Sample Prompts:
@airflow why is data_pipeline_dag failing? Analyze and show me the logs@airflow give me a summary of failed runs and recommend fixes@airflow check if my dags are healthy and pause any that keep failing
Open Views
- Purpose: Quickly navigate to any part of the extension using natural language
- Sample Prompts:
@airflow open log view for my_dag@airflow show me variables@airflow go to connections@airflow open provider list@airflow show server health
📷 Screenshots
| Daily Dag Runs |
Dag Run History |
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⚙️ Configuration
After installing the extension, you need to configure the extension to connect to your Airflow Server.
- Click 🔌 Connect to Airflow Server at the top of the extension sidebar.
- Enter your Airflow Server API Url
- Exp Airflow 2: http://localhost:8080/api/v1
- Exp Airflow 3: http://localhost:8080/api/v2
- Enter your Airflow username
- Enter your Airflow password
You can also add multiple Airflow Servers to connect to.
- Use [+] button to add a new Airflow Server
- Use [-] button to remove an Airflow Server
- Use [🔌] to switch between servers
ℹ️ To be able to connect an Airflow Server, you should enable Airflow Rest Api.
You can take a look the link below on how to do it.
https://airflow.apache.org/docs/apache-airflow/stable/security/api.html
🪲 Bug & New Feature Report
If you have an issue or new feature request, please click link below to add a new issue.
https://github.com/necatiarslan/airflow-vscode-extension/issues/new
💻 Local Airflow via Astronomer
Use Astro provided by the team who build Airflow
https://docs.astronomer.io/astro/cli/overview
To spin up a local Airflow instance for testing:
brew install astro #install cli tool from homebrew
astro dev init #init the local env
astro dev start #start airflow as a docker container
#Then you can connect your local airflow using the extension.
#airflow 2 url http://localhost:8080/api/v1
#airflow 3 url http://localhost:8080/api/v2
#user/pass admin/admin
📝 Roadmap
Coming Soon
- Task View
- Instance Details
- Rendered Template
If you find this extension useful, please consider:
📬 Stay in Touch
Enjoy! 🚀
