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Reintroduce visual indicator of a note on a Dag-run/ Task-instance #68615
Description
Under which category would you file this issue?
Airflow Core
Apache Airflow version
3.1.8
What happened and how to reproduce it?
When a note is added to a Dag-run or a task-instance in Airflow 3, the UI communicates this to the user only if they happen to enter a run that contains a note. The grid does not reveal this information.
This is in contrast to Airflow 2, where a note was indicated in the grid, guiding the user to click on the Dag-run/ task-instance in order to read the note.
Note indicators visible in Airflow 2:
Dag-run with note in Airflow 3, but you wouldn't know it from the grid:
What you think should happen instead?
Dag-run and task-instances with notes should be marked as such, possibly with the same (but smaller) blue circle that's currently decorating the Note button.
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Anything else?
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Are you willing to submit PR?
- Yes I am willing to submit a PR!
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daesung9511 commentedon Jun 16, 2026
Hi, I'd like to work on this issue if no one else is already working on it. Would it be possible for me to take this issue?
venkatamandavilli-code commentedon Jun 16, 2026
Thanks for raising this request.
From an operational perspective, visual indicators can be very helpful when investigating workflow issues or reviewing historical executions. Notes often contain important context such as incident details, business explanations, remediation actions, or handoff information that may not be immediately visible through task status alone.
Having a clear visual indicator at the DAG run or task instance level would improve discoverability and reduce the time required for troubleshooting, especially in environments where multiple teams collaborate on the same Airflow platform.
This could be particularly useful for production support teams that rely on operational notes to understand why specific actions were taken during previous runs.
jayachandrakasarla commentedon Jun 29, 2026
@eitan-shalev I've raised a PR to include
has_notekey in dag grid run responses, #69121Could you please tell me how the DAG run note should be indicated in the UI? This is how the current note indicator appears in the DAG view:
The note icon changes when a note is added to a DAG run.