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How to remove default example dags in airflow


When you startup airflow, make sure you set:

load_examples = False

inside your airflow.cfg

If you have already started airflow with this not set to false, you can set it to false and run airflow resetdb in the cli (!which will destroy all current dag information!).

Alternatively you can go into the airflow_db and manually delete those entries from the dag table.


For Airflow 2.0, in docker-compose.yaml you can set AIRFLOW__CORE__LOAD_EXAMPLES: 'false' to not load them instead of editing the .cfg file.


Like others have said, you can change load_examples = False within airflow.cfg. However this requires that the cfg file already existing.

You can init the airflow DB without having to configure the cfg file by using ENV variables.

export AIRFLOW__CORE__LOAD_EXAMPLES=Falseairflow initdb

See docs for more information.