nathadfield opened a new issue, #51653: URL: https://github.com/apache/airflow/issues/51653
### Description With the transition to Airflow 3, the new UI is a significant step forward in terms of design and performance. However, one valuable feature from previous versions seems to have been removed — the colored status indicator circles on the DAGs overview page. These circles reflected the most recent DAGRun and task instance states within each DAG (e.g., running, queued, failed, up_for_retry, etc.), and provided an at-a-glance visual representation of DAG activity and health. In Airflow 3, the DAGs page now links to the latest DAG Run instead, but the quick-scan overview and sense of real-time operational status has been lost. ### Use case/motivation The previous indicator circles served several key purposes: - **Operational Visibility**: Engineers could quickly assess the health of many DAGs at once without needing to click into each DAG individually. - **Activity Awareness**: The presence and animation of these indicators conveyed system activity — something especially useful in busy production environments. - **Incident Triage**: During outages or issues, scanning the DAGs page helped identify failing DAGs or ones stuck in queued or up_for_retry state. - **Minimal Clicks**: The removal increases the number of interactions required to perform routine DAG monitoring. I personally found these very useful so I would love to see them return in some form. ### Related issues _No response_ ### Are you willing to submit a PR? - [ ] Yes I am willing to submit a PR! ### Code of Conduct - [x] I agree to follow this project's [Code of Conduct](https://github.com/apache/airflow/blob/main/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md) -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: commits-unsubscr...@airflow.apache.org.apache.org For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org
