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What are Trigger Rules?

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Question

What are Trigger Rules in Airflow?

Solution

Trigger rules decide when a task may run based on upstream states.

all_success (default)

Run only if all upstream succeeded.

one_failed

Run if at least one upstream failed. Useful for alerts.

all_done

Run after all upstream finish (success or fail). Useful for cleanup.

Other rules exist; pick based on alerting vs cleanup vs happy-path logic.

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