Airflow scheduler still running on days it shouldn't - airflow

I've seen a couple of responses to similar questions but I can seem to wrap my head around this one. We have a process that we want to run only on set days so Tues-Sat at 8am.
default_args = {
'depends_on_past': False,
'start_date': datetime(2023, 1, 27),
'retries': 1,
'retry_delay': timedelta(minutes=10),
}
with DAG(
dag_id='dag_name',
schedule_interval='0 8 * * Tue-Sat',
catchup=False,
default_args=default_args
) as dag:
However the DAG is still running everyday. Have I missed something?

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Airflow doesn't execute DAG's at midnight

I did a DAG's with the following configuration:
default_args = {
'owner': 'airflow',
'depends_on_past': False,
'start_date': airflow.utils.dates.days_ago(0, 0, minute=1),
'email': ['francisco.salazar.12#sansano.usm.cl'],
'email_on_failure': False,
'email_on_retry': False,
'max_active_runs': 1,
'retries': 1,
'retry_delay': timedelta(minutes=1),
'provide_context': True
}
dag = DAG(
'terralink_environmetal_darksky',
default_args=default_args,
description='Extract Data from Darksky API',
catchup=False,
schedule_interval='31 * * * *',
)
The issue is that scheduler works correctly and execute DAG run at every hour that I defined in schedule_inverval (in minute 31 of every hour) BUT in midnight or the last execution of the day (scheduled at 00:31:00 for the next day) the DAG execution is not triggered.
I think that is a problem based on start_date but I don't know yet how to define this parameter in order to avoid the problem.
Airflow recommends to state a fixed startstart_date for your DAG. start_date is mainly for the purpose to specify when do you want your DAG to start running for the very first time. schedule_interval will be the most relevant one after the start_date did its purpose or (if you do not need to backfill or reset your dag).

How to limit the number of dag retries?

I have a DAG configured like this:
AIRFLOW_DEFAULT_ARGS = {
'owner': 'airflow',
'depends_on_past': False,
'email_on_failure': False,
'email_on_retry': False,
'retries': 1,
'retry_delay': timedelta(minutes=5),
'dagrun_timeout': timedelta(hours=5)
}
DAILY_RUNNER = DAG(
'daily_runner',
max_active_runs=1,
start_date=datetime(2019, 1, 1),
schedule_interval="0 17 * * *",
default_args=AIRFLOW_DEFAULT_ARGS)
My current understanding is that retries says that a task will be retried once before failing for good. Is there a way to set a similar limit for the number of times a DAG gets retried? If I have a dag in the running state, I want to be able to set it to failed from within the UI once and have it stop rerunning.
Currently, there is no way to set retry at dag level.
Please refer the below answer for retrying a set of tasks/whole-dag in case of failures.
Can a failed Airflow DAG Task Retry with changed parameter

Apache Airflow dag schedules in midnight UTC

I created Apache Airflow DAG with following default args. I want this DAG to run every day at 10PM UTC but it's always running at 12AM UTC and ignoring the date time I had set in start_date. Is this not the right way? Thanks.
default_args = {
'owner': config.OWNER,
'depends_on_past': False,
'start_date': datetime(2018, 10, 14, 22, 0, 0),
'email': [config.ALERT_EMAIL],
'email_on_failure': True,
'email_on_retry': False,
'retry_delay': timedelta(minutes=1),
'retries': 2,
}
# DAG
dag = DAG('Test',
default_args=default_args,
description='Initial setup',
schedule_interval='#daily')
You can also use cron format in your schedule interval argument like this:
# DAG
dag = DAG('Test',
default_args=default_args,
description='Initial setup',
schedule_interval='0 22 * * *')
Regarding the schedule_interval you have at least three options:
datetime.timedelta
dateutil.relativedelta
cron style string
The schedule_interval defines how often that DAG runs. This timedelta object is added to your latest task instance’s execution_date to figure out the next schedule. And keep in mind that: start_date for the task, determines the execution_date for the first task instance.
All of the above is correct.
I have encountered an issue where, in Airflow 2.0, schedule_interval is ignored when put in the default_args. When I removed it and put it in the DAG declaration, all worked. I could test this by looking at the DAG details in the UI.
Example:
default_args = {
'owner': 'Hector Hoffman',
'depends_on_past': False,
'start_date':start_date,
'schedule_interval': '0 5 * * *',
'email': ['hector#email.com'],
'email_on_failure': True,
'email_on_retry': False,
'retries': 0,
'on_failure_callback': task_fail_slack_alert
}
Results in:
Whereas, when I put it in the DAG:
with models.DAG(
"dealstampede_workflow",
default_args=default_args,
catchup=False,
schedule_interval='0 5 * * *'
) as dag:
Results in:
If anyone has any insight as to why the schedule_interval doesn't work in the default_args I'd appreciate feedback. Thanks.

unwanted DAG runs in Airflow

I configured my DAG like this:
default_args = {
'owner': 'Aviv',
'depends_on_past': False,
'start_date': datetime(2017, 1, 1),
'email': ['aviv#oron.com'],
'email_on_failure': False,
'email_on_retry': False,
'retries': 0,
'retry_delay': timedelta(minutes=1)
}
dag = DAG(
'MyDAG'
, schedule_interval=timedelta(minutes=3)
, default_args=default_args
, catchup=False
)
and for some reason, when i un-pause the DAG, its being executed twice immediatly.
Any idea why? And is there any rule i can apply to tell this DAG to never run more than once in the same time?
You can specify max_active_runs like this:
dag = airflow.DAG(
'customer_staging',
schedule_interval="#daily",
dagrun_timeout=timedelta(minutes=60),
template_searchpath=tmpl_search_path,
default_args=args,
max_active_runs=1)
I've never seen it happening, are you sure that those runs are not backfills, see: https://stackoverflow.com/a/47953439/9132848
I think its because you have missed the scheduled time and airflow is backfilling it automatically when you ON it again. You can disable this by
catchup_by_default = False in the airflow.cfg.

Airflow: Run DAG every minute

Hi I have my DAG parameters structured as so
default_args = {
'owner': 'airflow',
'depends_on_past': False,
'start_date': datetime(2017, 9, 26),
'schedule_interval': "* * * * *",
'email': ['airflow#airflow.com'],
'email_on_failure': False,
'email_on_retry': False,
}
But I'm not seeing my Airflow scheduler scheduling these tasks a minute apart or anywhere at all. I have also consulted this question but it does not seem to be working as well. Am I missing something when constructing my DAG?
I'm not 100% sure about this (and just started digging into the airflow code to try and verify) but you might need to pass the schedule interval into the DAG like so:
dag = DAG(DAG_NAME, schedule_interval='* * * * *', default_args=default_args)
I had tried to do it like you did and had no luck either. This seemed to work for me though I have 0 12 * * * as my schedule interval.

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