Problemsby GlyphApache Airflow
Open source project48 problems204 posts+8 this week
Problem posts per week
Apache Airflow problems
Upgrades and new releases break working setups
76 posts from 62 people on GitHub issues, Reddit, App Store reviews.
Claude Code lock-in makes switching costly
14 posts from 14 people on GitHub issues, Hacker News, Reddit.
Claude agents loop, stall or fail midway
6 posts from 5 people on GitHub issues, Mastodon, Hacker News.
Hard to trace lineage and find trusted tables
21 posts from 21 people on GitHub issues, Reddit, Hacker News.
Claude Code users keep filing bugs
Top post: "Bug Report: Privacy violation in User-Agent header", one of 42 posts from 39 people on GitHub issues, Reddit.
Apache Airflow users keep filing bugs
Top post: "Status of testing Providers that were prepared on October 20, 2026", one of 41 posts from 31 people on GitHub issues, Reddit.
Apache Airflow is too complex to run well
34 posts from 32 people on GitHub issues.
Bad data slips into production unnoticed
21 posts from 21 people on GitHub issues, Reddit, Stack Overflow.
Tool prices rise faster than the value they give
13 posts from 13 people on Hacker News, Reddit, GitHub issues.
Kubernetes is too complex for most teams
13 posts from 13 people on GitHub issues, Reddit.
Apache Airflow upgrades break working setups
11 posts from 10 people on GitHub issues.
Containers are slow to build, bloated or crash-looping
10 posts from 10 people on GitHub issues, Stack Overflow, Reddit.
Trouble with Databricks genie
Top post: "Databricks: support Genie consultations and resumable standalone tasks", one of 3 posts from 3 people on Reddit, GitHub issues.
Hard to trace lineage and find trusted data in Databricks
3 posts from 3 people on Reddit, GitHub issues.
Trouble with Claude Code drops
One post on GitHub issues: "LLMFileAnalysisOperator drops CSV quoting, so values with commas look like extra columns". Unverified.
Snowflake users keep asking for help
Top post: "Frequency/histogram of an array", one of 31 posts from 27 people on Reddit, GitHub issues, Stack Overflow.
Apache Airflow jobs fail silently or break often
13 posts from 12 people on GitHub issues, Stack Overflow.
Microsoft Azure upgrades break working setups
8 posts from 4 people on GitHub issues, Reddit.
Kubernetes is too complex to run well
8 posts from 8 people on GitHub issues, Stack Overflow.
Debugging Apache Airflow failures is hard
7 posts from 6 people on GitHub issues.
Trouble with PostgreSQL database
Top post: "Canonicalising unit names from a flat file in a normalised database structure", one of 6 posts from 6 people on GitHub issues, Stack Overflow.
Claude Code is too complex to run well
5 posts from 4 people on GitHub issues.
Databricks jobs fail silently or break often
5 posts from 5 people on GitHub issues, Reddit.
Apache Airflow backfills are slow and risky
4 posts from 4 people on GitHub issues.
Apache Airflow login, SSO or OAuth breaks
4 posts from 3 people on GitHub issues.
Trouble with PostgreSQL server
Top post: "SQL Server to PostgreSQL sync missing some records", one of 3 posts from 3 people on Reddit, GitHub issues, Stack Overflow.
Snowflake permissions are confusing and error-prone
3 posts from 3 people on Reddit, GitHub issues.
Trouble with Apache Airflow retry
Top post: "Task state store writes from `on_retry_callback` fail with 404", one of 3 posts from 3 people on GitHub issues.
Trouble with Snowflake query
Top post: "SELECT SQL query returning no columns", one of 3 posts from 3 people on GitHub issues, Stack Overflow.
Trouble with Apache Airflow backend
Top post: "Support [workers] state_store_backend in language SDK tasks", one of 3 posts from 3 people on GitHub issues.
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Problems here are about Apache Airflow or name it. It is tracked from the product list on the Method page. Website: airflow.apache.org.