How to add new DAGs to Airflow?

I might be using the latest airflow, the command has changed. What works for me is:

• export AIRFLOW_HOME="~/airflow"
• Then run airflow dags list

In my understanding, AIRFLOW_HOME should link to the directory where airflow.cfg is stored. Then, airflow.cfg can apply and set the dag directory to the value you put in it.

The important point is : airflow.cfg is useless if your AIRFLOW_HOME is not set

The issue is that you might have two airflow configs existing in your directories, so check for /root/airflow/dags and if yes you require to change the dags_folder path in both airflow.cfg s

I think the reason for this is because you haven't exported AIRFLOW_HOME. Try doing: AIRFLOW_HOME="/home/alex/airflow/dags" airflow list_dags. If that's not working than do two steps export AIRFLOW_HOME="/home/alex/airflow/dags" airflow list_dags I believe this should work. Give it a go?