I run backfill command and all preceeding tasks are done except for the last 4 tasks.Their status are scheduled and nothing happens at all. I have run airflow test before and succeeded,but now I don't know what to do.
I specified a none-existing pool.But I think this won't matter because
preceeding tasks run smoothly.
Uhm no;
AFAIK, non-existent pool results in tasks getting stuck into a limbo state
But I've found that even while DAG is running, adding / removing pools or modifying the count of slots in pool works; so try creating the pool with adequate number of slots
I'm glad to join the conversation. Currently, I already created the pool with adequate number of slots, but the problem is still here. As this picture shows us: enter image description here
And besides, I set the priority_weight of the dag. It works! These tasks begin to running. The change like this:
default_args = {
'owner': 'Airflow',
'retries': 2,
'queue': 'queue_name',
'pool': 'pool_name',
'priority_weight': 10, # the larger the number, the higher the weight
'retry_delay': timedelta(seconds=10)}
Related
I'm trying to see whether or not there is a straightforward way to not start the next dag run if the previous dag run has failures. I already set depends_on_past=True, wait_for_downstream=True, max_active_runs=1.
What i have is tasks 1, 2, 3 where they:
create resources
run job
tear down resources
task 3 always runs with trigger_rule=all_done to make sure we always tear down resources. What i'm seeing is that if task 2 fails, and task 3 then succeeds, the next dag run starts and if i have wait_for_downstream=False it runs task 1 since the previous task 1 was a success and if i have wait_for_downstream=true then it doesn't start the dag as i expect which is perfect.
The problem is that if tasks 1 and 2 succeed but task 3 fails for some reason, now my next dag run starts and task 1 runs immediately because both task 1 and task 2 (due to wait_for_downstream) were successful in the previous run. This is the worst case scenario because task 1 creates resources and then the job is never run so the resources just sit there allocated.
What i ultimately want is for any failure to stop the dag from proceeding to the next dag run. If my previous dag run is marked as fail then the next one should not start at all. Is there any mechanism for doing this?
My current 2 best effort ideas are:
Use a sub dag so that there's only 1 task in the parent dag and therefore the next dag run will never start at all if the previous single task dag failed. This seems like it will work but i've seen mixed reviews on the use of sub dag operators.
Do some sort of logic within the dag as a first task that manually queries the DB to see if the dag has previous failures and fails the task if it does. This seems hacky and not ideal but that it could work as well.
Is there any out of the box solution for this? Seems fairly standard to not want to continue on failure and not want step 1 to start of run 2 if not all steps of run 1 were successful or if run 1 itself was marked as failed.
The reason depends_on_past is not helping your is it's a task parameter not a dag parameter.
Essentially what you're asking for is for the dag to be disabled after a failure.
I can imagine valid use cases for this, and maybe we should add an AirflowDisableDagException that would trigger this.
The problem with this is you risk having your dag disabled and not noticing for days or weeks.
A better solution would be to build recovery or abort logic into your pipeline so that you don't need to disable the dag.
One way you can do this is add a cleanup task to the start of your dag, which can check whether resources were left sitting there and tear them down if appropriate, and just fail the dag run immediately if you get an appropriate error. You can consider using airflow Variable or Xcom to store the state of your resources.
The other option, notwithstanding the risks, is the disable dag approach: if your process fails to tear down resources appropriately, disable the dag. Something along these lines should work:
class MyOp(BaseOperator):
def disable_dag(self):
orm_dag = DagModel(dag_id=self.dag_id)
orm_dag.set_is_paused(is_paused=True)
def execute(self, context):
try:
print('something')
except TeardownFailedError:
self.disable_dag()
The ExternalTaskSensor may work, with an execution_delta of datetime.timedelta(days=1). From the docs:
execution_delta (datetime.timedelta) – time difference with the previous execution to look at, the default is the same execution_date as the current task or DAG. For yesterday, use [positive!] datetime.timedelta(days=1). Either execution_delta or execution_date_fn can be passed to ExternalTaskSensor, but not both.
I've only used it to wait for upstream DAG's to finish, but seems like it should work as self-referencing because the dag_id and task_id are arguments for the sensor. But you'll want to test it first of course.
Problem:
several tasks/jobs that need to be executed for a client
a lot of clients (hundreds)
tasks/jobs are nearly identical, only config changes
Are there any best practices in Airflow to keep things simple? I'm thinking about (in no specific order):
specific client configs as possible (override defaults when needed)
ui overview: job per client would make it very difficult to get an overview
modularity: re-use of code as much as possible
performance: clients should not hinder one another (too much)
scaling: it should be easy to increase performance (preferably horizontally)
fault-tolerance: when things fail for one client they don't hinder others + clear ui indication
re-execution: easy to manually re-execute for 1 client
setup: setting up a new client should be easy (and using code/config, no ui)
governance: easy to evaluate code changes and enforce rules
clean-up: easy to remove a client
etc.
I cannot find a lot of material on this particular use case.
Ideally we have one "template" that is re-used per client. It is unclear whether one job or multiple jobs are the best solution. Or maybe there is another way that better suits this usage?
Airflow has extensive support for the Google Cloud Platform. But note that most Hooks and Operators are in the contrib section, which means that they have a beta status, meaning that they can have breaking changes between minor releases.
Number of client aspects:
There can be as many DAGs as is needed and each one of them can mention multiple tasks. It is recommended to keep one logical workflow in one DAG file and try keep it very light (e.g. configuration file). It allows taking less time and resources for the Airflow scheduler to process them at each heartbeat.
It is possible to create DAGs (with the same base code) dynamically based on any number of configuration parameters, which is really helpful and time-saving option when having a lot of clients.
To create new DAGs, please create a DAG template within the create_dag function. Code can be wrapped in a method that allows for custom parameters to be passed in. Moreover, the input parameters don't have to exist in the dag file itself. Another common form of generating DAGs is by setting values in a Variable object. Plese, refer here for further information.
Specific client configs:
You can use Macros are used to pass dynamic information into task instances at runtime. A list of default variables accessible in all templates can be found here.
Airflow’s built-in support for Jinja templating enables users to pass arguments that can be used in templated fields.
UI overview
If your dag takes long time to load, you could reduce the value of default_dag_run_display_number configuration in airflow.cfg to a smaller value. This configurable controls the number of dag run to show in UI with default value 25.
Modularity
If a dictionary of default_args is passed to a DAG, it will apply them to any of its operators. This makes it easy to apply a common parameter to many operators without having to type it many times.
Take a look for example:
from datetime import datetime, timedelta
default_args = {
'owner': 'Airflow',
'depends_on_past': False,
'start_date': datetime(2015, 6, 1),
'email': ['airflow#example.com'],
'email_on_failure': False,
'email_on_retry': False,
'retries': 1,
'retry_delay': timedelta(minutes=5),
# 'queue': 'bash_queue',
# 'pool': 'backfill',
# 'priority_weight': 10,
# 'end_date': datetime(2016, 1, 1),
}
dag = DAG('my_dag', default_args=default_args)
op = DummyOperator(task_id='dummy', dag=dag)
print(op.owner) # Airflow
For more information about the BaseOperator’s parameters and what they do, refer to the airflow.models.BaseOperator documentation.
Performance
It is possible to use variables, which you could control to improve airflow DAG performance (possible to set in the airflow.cfg.):
parallelism: controls the number of task instances that runs simultaneously across the whole Airflow cluster.
concurrency: The Airflow scheduler will run no more than concurrency task instances for your DAG at any given time. Concurrency is defined in your Airflow DAG. If you do not set the concurrency on your DAG, the scheduler will use the default value from the dag_concurrency entry in your airflow.cfg.
task_concurrency: This variable controls the number of concurrent running task instances across dag_runs per task.
max_active_runs: the Airflow scheduler will run no more than max_active_runs DagRuns of your DAG at a given time.
pool: This variable controls the number of concurrent running task instances assigned to the pool.
You can see the airflow config in the composer instance bucket gs://composer_instance_bucket/airflow.cfg. You can tune this configuration as you wish, but keep in mind that cloud composer has some configurations blocked.
Scaling
Please, keep in mind that is recommended that the number of nodes must be greater than 3, keeping this number below to 3 could cause some issues, if you want to up upgrade the number of nodes you can use the gcloud command to specify this value. Also please note that, there are some airflow configurations related to autoscalling blocked and can't be overridden.
Some Airflow configurations are preconfigured for Cloud Composer, and you cannot change them.
Fault-tolerance
Please, refer to following documentation.
Re-execution
Just like object is an instance of a class, an Airflow task is an instance of an Operator (BaseOperator). So write a "re-usable" operator and use it hundreds of times across your pipelines simply by passing different params.
Latency
It is possible to reduce airflow DAG scheduling latency in production by using:
max_threads: Scheduler will spawn multiple threads in parallel to schedule dags. This is controlled by max_threads with default value of 2.
scheduler_heartbeat_sec: User should consider to increase scheduler_heartbeat_sec config to a higher value(e.g 60 secs) which controls how frequent the airflow scheduler gets the heartbeat and updates the job’s entry in database.
Please refer to following articles about best practices:
Airflow documentation
Medium
I hope it will helps you in some way.
I've been setting up an airflow cluster on our system and previously it has been working. I'm not sure what I may have done to change this.
I have a DAG which I want to run on a schedule. To make sure it's working I'd also like to trigger it manually. Neither of these seem to be working at the moment and no logs seem to be being written for the task instances. The only logs available are the airflow scheduler logs which generally look healthy.
I am just constantly met with this message:
Task is not ready for retry yet but will be retried automatically. Current date is 2018-12-12T11:34:46.978355+00:00 and task will be retried at 2018-12-12T11:35:08.093313+00:00.
However, if I wait a little the exact same message is presented again except the times have moved forward a little. Therefore, it seems the task is never actually being retried.
I am using a LocalExecutor and the task is an SSHOperator. Simplified code below. All it does is ssh onto another machine and start a bunch of application with a pre-determined directory structure.:
DB_INFO_FILE = 'info.json'
START_SCRIPT = '/bin/start.sh'
TIME_IN_PAST = timezone.convert_to_utc(datetime.today() -
timedelta(days=1))
DEFAULT_ARGS = {
'owner': 'airflow',
'depends_on_past': False,
'start_date': TIME_IN_PAST,
'email': ['some_email#blah.com'],
'email_on_failure': False,
'email_on_retry': False,
'retries': 1,
'retry_delay': timedelta(minutes=1),
}
def _extract_instance_id(instance_string):
return re.findall(r'\d+', instance_string)[0]
def _read_file_as_json(file_name):
with open(file_name) as open_file:
return json.load(open_file)
DB_INFO = _read_file_as_json(DB_INFO_FILE)
CONFIG_CLIENT = ConfigDbClient(**DB_INFO)
APP_DIRS = CONFIG_CLIENT.get_values('%my-app-info%')
INSTANCE_START_SCRIPT_PATHS = {
_extract_instance_id(instance_string): directory+START_SCRIPT
for instance_string, directory in APP_DIRS.items()
}
# Create an ssh hook which refers to pre-existing connection information
# setup and stored by airflow
SSH_HOOK = SSHHook(ssh_conn_id='my-conn-id')
# Create a DAG object to add tasks to
DAG = DAG('my-dag-id',
default_args=DEFAULT_ARGS)
# Create a task for each app instance.
for instance_id, start_script in INSTANCE_START_SCRIPT_PATHS.items():
task = SSHOperator(
task_id='run-script-{0}'.format(instance_id),
command='bash {0}'.format(start_script),
ssh_hook=SSH_HOOK,
dag=DAG)
It works when I run the tasks individually, via the command line but not via the UI. It seems I can run tasks but I simply cannot trigger a DAG to run. I've tried many combinations of start_date s and interval schedules just to sanity check also.
Any ideas?
And yes, I am aware this question has been asked before and I have looked at all of them but not of the solutions have helped me.
Oh. Your start_date is changing at the same rate or faster than the schedule interval period.
Here's what the scheduler is seeing every couple of seconds:
start_date: 2018-12-11T12:12:12.000Z # E.G. IFF now is 2018-12-12T12:12:12.000Z, a day ago
schedule_interval: timedelta(days=1) # The default
Here's what the scheduler needs for a DAG to run: The last time a run occurred was more than one schedule interval ago. If no scheduled run has occurred, the first scheduled run could start now if one full schedule interval has passed since the start_date as that is the earliest allowable date for execution_date. In which case the dag_run with the execution_date set to the start of that interval period should be created. Then task_instances can be created for any tasks in the DAG whose dependencies are met as long as the task_instance execution_date is after the start_date of the DAG (this is not stored on the dag_run object but recomputed by loading the DAG file just while inspecting the dag's state).
So it's not getting scheduled automatically for the reason that the start date keeps changing just as the interval is satisfied. However if it were -2d at least one run would get scheduled and then any further runs would have to wait until it's 1d after that to be scheduled. It's easier though if you just set a fixed datetime on your start_date.
But what about those odd retries on your manual runs…
You did start a manual run or two. These runs took the current time as the execution_date unless you specified something else. This should be after the start_date, at least until tomorrow, which should clear them to run. But then it seems in your logs you're seeing that they're failing and being marked for retry and also not decrementing your retries. I'm not sure why that would be but could it be that something isn't right with the SSHOperator.
Did you install airflow with the [ssh] extra so that SSHOperator's dependencies are met (specifically paramiko and sshtunnel) on both the webserver and scheduler? One of them is working because I assume it's parsing and showing up in the UI based on being added to the DB.
What do you get if you execute:
airflow test my-dag-id run-script-an_instance_id 2018-12-12T12:12:12
You know that the scheduler and webserver are looping over refilling their DAG bag and so rerunning this DAG file a few 1000 times a day, reloading that json (it's local access, so similar to importing a module), and recreating that SSHHook with a DB lookup. I don't see anything fancy done setting up this hook, why not just remove ssh_hook from the SSHOperator and replace it with ssh_conn_id='my-conn-id' so it can be created once at execution time?
I doubt that's the issue that's causing the retries that just roll forward though.
I had a task stuck in up_for_retry for almost 24 hours before I noticed it, and it had nothing to do with the start_date, end_date, or any other classic beginner's problem.
I resorted to reading the source code, and found that Airflow treats up_for_retry tasks differently if they are part of a backfill DAG run.
So I connected to the metadata DB and changed backfill_ to scheduled__ in the dag_run row corresponding to the stuck task. Airflow started running the stuck task immediately.
Airflow is randomly not running queued tasks some tasks dont even get queued status. I keep seeing below in the scheduler logs
[2018-02-28 02:24:58,780] {jobs.py:1077} INFO - No tasks to consider for execution.
I do see tasks in database that either have no status or queued status but they never get started.
The airflow setup is running https://github.com/puckel/docker-airflow on ECS with Redis. There are 4 scheduler threads and 4 Celery worker tasks. For the tasks that are not running are showing in queued state (grey icon) when hovering over the task icon operator is null and task details says:
All dependencies are met but the task instance is not running. In most cases this just means that the task will probably be scheduled soon unless:- The scheduler is down or under heavy load
Metrics on scheduler do not show heavy load. The dag is very simple with 2 independent tasks only dependent on last run. There are also tasks in the same dag that are stuck with no status (white icon).
Interesting thing to notice is when I restart the scheduler tasks change to running state.
Airflow can be a bit tricky to setup.
Do you have the airflow scheduler running?
Do you have the airflow webserver running?
Have you checked that all DAGs you want to run are set to On in the web ui?
Do all the DAGs you want to run have a start date which is in the past?
Do all the DAGs you want to run have a proper schedule which is shown in the web ui?
If nothing else works, you can use the web ui to click on the dag, then on Graph View. Now select the first task and click on Task Instance. In the paragraph Task Instance Details you will see why a DAG is waiting or not running.
I've had for instance a DAG which was wrongly set to depends_on_past: True which forbid the current instance to start correctly.
Also a great resource directly in the docs, which has a few more hints: Why isn't my task getting scheduled?.
I'm running a fork of the puckel/docker-airflow repo as well, mostly on Airflow 1.8 for about a year with 10M+ task instances. I think the issue persists in 1.9, but I'm not positive.
For whatever reason, there seems to be a long-standing issue with the Airflow scheduler where performance degrades over time. I've reviewed the scheduler code, but I'm still unclear on what exactly happens differently on a fresh start to kick it back into scheduling normally. One major difference is that scheduled and queued task states are rebuilt.
Scheduler Basics in the Airflow wiki provides a concise reference on how the scheduler works and its various states.
Most people solve the scheduler diminishing throughput problem by restarting the scheduler regularly. I've found success at a 1-hour interval personally, but have seen as frequently as every 5-10 minutes used too. Your task volume, task duration, and parallelism settings are worth considering when experimenting with a restart interval.
For more info see:
Airflow: Tips, Tricks, and Pitfalls (section "The scheduler should be restarted frequently")
Bug 1286825 - Airflow scheduler stopped working silently
Airflow at WePay (section "Restart everything when deploying DAG changes.")
This used to be addressed by restarting every X runs using the SCHEDULER_RUNS config setting, although that setting was recently removed from the default systemd scripts.
You might also consider posting to the Airflow dev mailing list. I know this has been discussed there a few times and one of the core contributors may be able to provide additional context.
Related Questions
Airflow tasks get stuck at "queued" status and never gets running (especially see Bolke's answer here)
Jobs not executing via Airflow that runs celery with RabbitMQ
Make sure you don't have datetime.now() as your start_date
It's intuitive to think that if you tell your DAG to start "now" that it'll execute "now." BUT, that doesn't take into account how Airflow itself actually reads datetime.now().
For a DAG to be executed, the start_date must be a time in the past, otherwise Airflow will assume that it's not yet ready to execute. When Airflow evaluates your DAG file, it interprets datetime.now() as the current timestamp (i.e. NOT a time in the past) and decides that it's not ready to run. Since this will happen every time Airflow heartbeats (evaluates your DAG) every 5-10 seconds, it'll never run.
To properly trigger your DAG to run, make sure to insert a fixed time in the past (e.g. datetime(2019,1,1)) and set catchup=False (unless you're looking to run a backfill).
By design, an Airflow DAG will execute at the completion of its schedule_interval
That means one schedule_interval AFTER the start date. An hourly DAG, for example, will execute its 2pm run when the clock strikes 3pm. The reasoning here is that Airflow can't ensure that all data corresponding to the 2pm interval is present until the end of that hourly interval.
This is a peculiar aspect to Airflow, but an important one to remember - especially if you're using default variables and macros.
Time in Airflow is in UTC by default
This shouldn't come as a surprise given that the rest of your databases and APIs most likely also adhere to this format, but it's worth clarifying.
Full article and source here
I also had a similar issue, but it is mostly related to SubDagOperator with more than 3000 task instances in total (30 tasks * 44 subdag tasks).
What I found out is that airflow scheduler mainly responsible for putting your scheduled tasks in to "Queued Slots" (pool), while airflow celery workers is the one who pick up your queued task and put it into the "Used Slots" (pool) and run it.
Based on your description, your scheduler should work fine. I suggest you check your "celery workers" log to see whether there is any error, or restart it to see whether it helps or not. I experienced some issues that celery workers normally go on strike for a few minutes then start working again (especially on SubDagOperator)
One of the very silly reasons could be that the DAG is "paused" which is the default state for the first time. I lost around 2 hrs fighting it. If you are using Airflow Web interface, then this shows up as a toggle next to your DAG in the list
I am facing the issue today and found that bullet point 4 from tobi6 answer below worked out and resolved the issue
*'Do all the DAGs you want to run have a start date which is in the past?'*
I am using airflow version v1.10.3
My problem was one step further, in addition to my tasks being queued, I couldn't see any of my celery workers on the Flower UI. The solution was that, since I was running my celery worker as root I had to make changes in my ~/.bashrc file.
The following steps made it work:
Add export C_FORCE_ROOT=true to your ~/.bashrc file
source ~/.bashrc
Run worker : nohup airflow worker $* >> ~/airflow/logs/worker.logs &
Check your Flower UI at http://{HOST}:5555
I think it's worth mentioning that there's an open issue that can cause tasks to fail to run with no obvious reason: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AIRFLOW-5506
The problem seems to occur when using LocalScheduler connected to a PostgreSQL airflow db, and results in the scheduler logging a number of "Killing PID xxxx" lines. Check the scheduler logs after the DAGs have been stalled without starting any new tasks for a while.
You can try to stop the webserver and the scheduler:
ps -ef | grep airflow #show the process id
kill 1234 #kill the webserver
kill 5678 #kill the scheduler
Remove the files from the airflow folder if they exist (they will be created again):
airflow-scheduler.err
airflow-scheduler.pid
airflow-webserver.err
airflow-webserver.pid
Start the webserver and the scheduler again.
airflow webserver -D
airflow scheduler -D
-D will make the services run in the background.
I had a similar issue of a triggered DAG "running" indefinitely because its first task stuck in "queued" state.
I realized this was because of a "ghost" DAG that actually changed name. It seems that since the DAG has run in the past (had data in the postgresDG) and was referenced as child-DAG in other DAGs, the trigger of the parent DAGs referencing the old name would "resurrect" the old DAG name, but with the new code. Indeed the old DAG name and new DAG code did not match, thus producing an "infinite queued execution" bug.
Solution:
Delete the all the previous DAG runs of the previous DAG-runs with the old name
Restart everything (webserver, worker, executor,...) OR Delete relevant DAGs (with the "delete DAG" button in the UI).
The interpretation of the bug can vary but this fix worked in my case.
One more thing to check is whether "the concurrency parameter of your DAG reached?".
I'd experienced the same situation when some task was shown as NO STATUS.
It turned out that my File_Sensor tasks were run with timeout set up to 1 week, while DAG time out was only 5 hours. That leaded to the case when the Files were missing, many sensors tasked were running at the same time. Which results the concurrency overloaded!
The depending tasks couldn't be started before the sensor task succeed, when the dag timeout, they got NO STATUS.
My solution:
Carefully set tasks and DAG timeout
Increase dag_concurrency in airflow.cfg file in AIRFLOW_HOME folder.
Please refer to the docs.
https://airflow.apache.org/faq.html#why-isn-t-my-task-getting-scheduled
I believe this is an issue with celery version 4.2.1 and redis 3.0.1 as described here:
https://github.com/celery/celery/issues/3808
we resolved the issue by downgrading our redis version 2.10.6:
redis==2.10.6
In my case, tasks were not being launched because I had for all operators a pool configured and hadn't created it, hence, tasks were not even scheduled. An operator looks like:
foo = DummyOperator(
task_id='foo',
dag=dag,
pool='capser'
)
To create a pool go to Admin > Pools > Create and set slots, for example, 128, which runs successfully for me. You can also configure by using the CLI.
counter intuitive UI message!
I have spent days on this. So want to elaborate on my specific issue (s).
Each dag has a state. By default the state could be 'pause' or 'not pause'.
The first confusion arises from - what is the default state on startup? The UI message attached seems to indicate that the state is 'not pause' and on clicking the toggle, it pauses.
In reality, the default state is 'pause'. This state can be controlled by settings, environment variables, parameters and UI. I have detailed them below.
The second confusion arises because of the UI again. When we manually trigger a dag which is in the pause state. The UI shows the dag as running (green circle)! But the dag is actually in the 'pause' state. The tasks will not execute unless it is 'un-paused'.
If we read the task instance details. The message would be
Task is in the 'None' state which is not a valid state for execution. The task must be cleared in order to be run.
What is the 'None' state!? And clear which task?!
The actual problem is that the dag is in the pause state. On toggling the dag state the tasks would start to execute.
The pause state of the dag can be changed by
clicking the button on the UI.
set your particular dag to run, by adding the below parameter to your dag
DAG(dag_id='your-dag', is_paused_upon_creation=True)
setting the config variable in airflow.cfg file. (caution: this will start all your dags including the example ones)
dags_are_paused_at_creation = FALSE
configuring an environment variable before starting up the scheduler/webserver.(caution: this will start all your dags including the example ones)
AIRFLOW__CORE__DAGS_ARE_PAUSED_AT_CREATION=False
Make sure that your task is assigned to the same queue, that your workers is listening to. This means that in your DAG file you have to set 'queue': 'queue_name' and in your worker configuration you have to set either default_queue = 'queue_name' in the airflow.cfg or AIRFLOW__OPERATORS__DEFAULT_QUEUE: 'queue_name' in the docker-compose.yaml (in case you're using Docker).
When I'm developing on Airflow and turn my DAG on, it'd fail on, say, Step 6, and Steps 7-9 would not start. But before I can debug the issue, the next instance (I'm putting the start_date in the past) will start and run all the way to Step 5 and fail on Step 6, completely messing up my workflow. Is this behavior expected, or could it be turned off, such that the next instance doesn't start until this instance is green everywhere?
Check the docs for the following two options you can set on the operators.
depends_on_past (bool) – when set to true, task instances will run sequentially while relying on the previous task’s schedule to succeed. The task instance for the start_date is allowed to run.
wait_for_downstream (bool) – when set to true, an instance of task X will wait for tasks immediately downstream of the previous instance of task X to finish successfully before it runs. This is useful if the different instances of a task X alter the same asset, and this asset is used by tasks downstream of task X. Note that depends_on_past is forced to True wherever wait_for_downstream is used.
Reference: https://airflow.incubator.apache.org/code.html#models