# Airflow Survey 2022

DevFeed: [Airflow Survey 2022](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/airflow-survey-2022-32545.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://airflow.apache.org/blog/airflow-survey-2022/>)

Author: Apache Airflow

Published: 2022-06-17T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Apache Airflow Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/apache-airflow-blog.md>)

Topics: [airflow](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/airflow.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data.md>), [Documentation](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/documentation.md>), [migration](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/migration.md>), [Monitoring](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/monitoring.md>), [Stack Overflow](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/stackoverflow.md>)

Tags: [airflow](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/airflow.md>), [apache-airflow](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/apache-airflow.md>), [community](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/community.md>), [contributions](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/contributions.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data.md>), [documentation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/documentation.md>), [migration](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/migration.md>), [monitoring](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/monitoring.md>), [results](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/results.md>), [stack-overflow](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/stack-overflow.md>), [survey](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/survey.md>), [users](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/users.md>)

## AI overview

The 2022 Airflow User Survey collected 210 responses over two weeks. Respondents were primarily data engineers, and Airflow was widely used in larger companies. Most participants were willing to recommend Apache Airflow, documentation and Stack Overflow were important information sources, and most deployments used Airflow 2. Migration from Airflow 1 was mainly constrained by resources and capacity.

## Source excerpt

Airflow User Survey 2022 This year's survey has come and gone, and with it we've got a new batch of data for everyone! We collected 210 responses over two weeks. We continue to see growth in both contributions and downloads over the last two years, and expect that trend will continue through 2022. The raw response data will be made available here soon, in the meantime, feel free to email john.thomas@astronomer.io for a copy. TL;DR Overview of the user Like previous years, more than half of the Airflow users are Data Engineers (54%). Solutions Architects (13%), Developers (12%), DevOps (6%) and Data Scientists (4%) are also active Airflow users! There was a slight increase in the representation of Solutions Architect roles compared to results from 2020 and 2019 . Airflow is used and popular in bigger companies, 64% of Airflow users work for companies with 200+ employees which is an 11 percent increase compared to 2020. 62% of the survey participants have more than 6 Airflow users in their company. More Airflow users (65.9%) are willing to recommend Apache Airflow compared to the survey results in 2020 and 2019. There is a general positive trend in a willingness to recommend Airflow, 93% of surveyed Airflow users are willing to recommend Airflow ( 85.7% in 2019 and 92% in 2020 ), only 1% of users are not likely to recommend (3.6% in 2019 and 3.5% in 2020). Airflow documentation is a critical source of information, with more than 90% (15% increase compared to results from 2020) of survey participants using the documentation. Airflow documentation is also one of the top areas to improve! What's interesting, also Stack Overflow usage is critical, with about 60% users declaring to use it as a source of information (24% increase compared to results from 2020). Deployments 85% of the Airflow users have between 1 and 7 active Airflow instances. 62.5% of the Airflow users have between 11 and 250 DAGs in their largest Airflow instance. 75% of the surveyed Airflow users have be