Q. How can I monitor ETL jobs in Airflow?
Airflow has a web UI where you can view DAG runs, logs, and task success/failures. You can also enable email/Slack alerts and integrate with external observability tools.
Q. How do retries and error handling work in Airflow pipelines?
Each task can have retry count, delay, and on-failure callbacks. If extraction fails, Airflow can retry automatically or alert the user via email/SNS.
Q. What are the key components of an ETL DAG in Airflow?
Operators (e.g., PythonOperator, BashOperator) for task logic Tasks — instances of operators DAGs — workflow definitions Task dependencies — determine execution order
Q. How does Python integrate with Airflow for ETL tasks?
Python is used to define DAGs and operators in Airflow. You can write Python functions to extract data from APIs/databases, transform it (cleaning, aggregation), and load it into a destination like AWS S3, Redshift, or a relational DB.
Q. What is Apache Airflow, and why is it suited for ETL pipelines?
Airflow is an open-source workflow orchestration tool that allows you to define Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs) for scheduling and monitoring tasks. For ETL, Airflow is powerful because it supports dependency management, retries, task scheduling, and integrations with databases and cloud services.
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