Huge +1 for this one. We have been relying on Notes in Airflow-2 to add short summaries about dagruns and task instances which our Program Managers quickly glance at. This is missing in Airflow-3. We do have Notes, however it is additional clicks to get to the needed information and it not very obvious which dagrun has notes.
One suggestion here would be the ability to edit the summary directly from the web-ui if needed. I think this is a good addition and if voted in, I would like to help with its development aswell! Thanks, Dheeraj On Wed, Apr 15, 2026 at 3:48 AM Kuettelwesch Marco (XC-AS/ESE6-ADA) via dev <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > We would like to start a discussion on AIP-102: Improving Business User > Interaction with Apache Airflow. > > In our Airflow deployment, many users need a quick understanding of task > outcomes without reading full technical logs. In Airflow 2.x, we worked > around this by auto-populating task and DAG notes with short human-readable > summaries. After moving to Airflow 3, that approach became less effective > for UX and architecture reasons. > > AIP-102 proposes an optional Summary concept for DAG runs and task > instances: > > - machine-generated, read-only summaries (separate from Notes), > - Markdown-based rendering in the UI, > - focus on fast, business-friendly status and error understanding, > - support for per-execution summaries (not static docs), > - opt-in behavior for DAG authors and operators. > > The goal is to improve usability for non-technical users while keeping the > feature generic and optional for all Airflow users. > > AIP-102 is available here: > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/x/dZM8G > > What are your thoughts and ideas about this improvement? > We look forward to your feedback. > > Marco >
