Airflow Schedule Insights

Airflow Schedule Insights is a lightweight Airflow 2-3 plugin that eliminates the scheduling black box.

As data teams grow and more DAGs share the same Airflow environment, scheduling complexity compounds fast. DAGs silently refuse to run, asset-triggered pipelines stall without explanation, and no one has a clear picture of what's blocking what -- or when the next run will actually fire.

Schedule Insights gives you that picture.

See exactly when each DAG is expected to run, what asset conditions it's waiting on, and why it hasn't triggered yet. Simulate schedule changes before committing them -- visualize how shifting a cron expression propagates through downstream dependencies. Navigate Airflow 3's conditional AND/OR asset expression trees with a recursive evaluator that actually understands nested logic. And do all of it with timezone-aware Gantt charts, so no more UTC mental math.

Built for Airflow 3 (but also works with Airflow 2). Dependency-light by design -- no pandas, no numpy. Scheduling predictions exposed via FastAPI endpoints so your internal tooling can query Airflow's future behavior programmatically.

For teams running complex, multi-layer DAG graphs across shared environments -- this is the visibility layer Airflow was always missing.

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