Airflow: how to delete a DAG?

Question

I have started the Airflow webserver and scheduled some dags. I can see the dags on web GUI.

How can I delete a particular DAG from being run and shown in web GUI? Is there an Airflow CLI command to do that?

I looked around but could not find an answer for a simple way of deleting a DAG once it has been loaded and scheduled.

Answer 1

Edit 8/27/18 - Airflow 1.10 is now released on PyPI!

https://pypi.org/project/apache-airflow/1.10.0/

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How to delete a DAG completely

We have this feature now in Airflow ≥ 1.10!

The PR #2199 (Jira: AIRFLOW-1002) adding DAG removal to Airflow has now been merged which allows fully deleting a DAG's entries from all of the related tables.

The core delete_dag(...) code is now part of the experimental API, and there are entrypoints available via the CLI and also via the REST API.

CLI:

airflow delete_dag my_dag_id

REST API (running webserver locally):

curl -X "DELETE" http://127.0.0.1:8080/api/experimental/dags/my_dag_id

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Warning regarding the REST API: Ensure that your Airflow cluster uses authentication in production.

Installing / upgrading to Airflow 1.10 (current)

To upgrade, run either:

export SLUGIFY_USES_TEXT_UNIDECODE=yes

or:

export AIRFLOW_GPL_UNIDECODE=yes

Then:

pip install -U apache-airflow

Remember to check UPDATING.md first for the full details!