How do I restart airflow webserver?
Can you check $AIRFLOW_HOME/airflow-webserver.pid
for the process id of your webserver daemon?
Then pass it a kill signal to kill it
cat $AIRFLOW_HOME/airflow-webserver.pid | xargs kill -9
Then clear the pid file
cat /dev/null > $AIRFLOW_HOME/airflow-webserver.pid
Then just run
airflow webserver -p 8080 -D True
to restart the daemon.
This worked for me (multiple times! :D )
find the process id: (assuming 8080 is the port)
lsof -i tcp:8080
kill it
kill <pid>
I advice running airflow in a robust way, with auto-recovery with systemd
so you can do:
- to start systemctl start airflow
- to stop systemctl stop airflow
- to restart systemctl restart airflow
For this you'll need a systemd 'unit' file.
As a (working) example you can use the following:put it in /lib/systemd/system/airflow.service
[Unit]
Description=Airflow webserver daemon
After=network.target postgresql.service mysql.service redis.service rabbitmq-server.service
Wants=postgresql.service mysql.service redis.service rabbitmq-server.service
[Service]
PIDFile=/run/airflow/webserver.pid
EnvironmentFile=/home/airflow/airflow.env
User=airflow
Group=airflow
Type=simple
ExecStart=/bin/bash -c 'export AIRFLOW_HOME=/home/airflow ; airflow webserver --pid /run/airflow/webserver.pid'
ExecReload=/bin/kill -s HUP $MAINPID
ExecStop=/bin/kill -s TERM $MAINPID
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=42s
PrivateTmp=true
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
P.S: change AIRFLOW_HOME to where your airflow folder with the config