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Airflow context not showing up in javaExtraOptions

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Hello!

I'm having some trouble linking jobs scheduled in Airflow to Dr. Elephant. I've got a running version of Dr. Elephant on our Spark cluster, running YARN mode, with Airflow scheduling jobs. I have, however, been unable to get a connection between tasks/DAGs to show up in Dr. E. After some investigation, the Airflow context information is not being recorded in the javaExtraOptions portion of the config. Has anyone else had this problem?

I'm using the BashOperator to execute spark-submit jobs through bash. I can verify that Airflow is recording the airflow context vars into the BashOperators environment, but they never show up in the location where Dr. E is looking for them.

Anyone advice or other suggestions on how to resolve this would be helpful. Thanks!

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Start by tracing how BashOperator passes Airflow context variables to the spark-submit command and where Dr. Elephant reads javaExtraOptions. Reproduce the YARN-mode job, then verify that the Airflow task or DAG context is recorded where Dr. Elephant expects it.

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Assessment

Tech stack
java, spark
Domain
data-engineering
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
30/100

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