Introduce new config variable to control whether DAG processor outputs to stdout

airflow/config_templates/airflow_local_settings.py

@@ -56,6 +56,10 @@
     "logging", "DAG_PROCESSOR_MANAGER_LOG_LOCATION"
 )
 
+DAG_PROCESSOR_MANAGER_LOG_STDOUT: str = conf.get_mandatory_value(
+    "logging", "DAG_PROCESSOR_MANAGER_LOG_STDOUT"
+)
+
 # FILENAME_TEMPLATE only uses in Remote Logging Handlers since Airflow 2.3.3
 # All of these handlers inherited from FileTaskHandler and providing any value rather than None
 # would raise deprecation warning.
@@ -171,6 +175,19 @@
     },
 }
 
+if DAG_PROCESSOR_MANAGER_LOG_STDOUT == "True":
+    DEFAULT_DAG_PARSING_LOGGING_CONFIG["handlers"].update(
+        {
+            "console": {
+                "class": "airflow.utils.log.logging_mixin.RedirectStdHandler",
+                "formatter": "airflow",
+                "stream": "sys.stdout",
+                "filters": ["mask_secrets"],
+            }
+        }
+    )
+    DEFAULT_DAG_PARSING_LOGGING_CONFIG["loggers"]["airflow.processor_manager"]["handlers"].append("console")
+
 # Only update the handlers and loggers when CONFIG_PROCESSOR_MANAGER_LOGGER is set.
 # This is to avoid exceptions when initializing RotatingFileHandler multiple times
 # in multiple processes.

airflow/config_templates/config.yml

@@ -857,6 +857,13 @@ logging:
       type: string
       example: ~
       default: "{AIRFLOW_HOME}/logs/dag_processor_manager/dag_processor_manager.log"
+    dag_processor_manager_log_stdout:
+      description: |
+        Whether DAG processor manager will write logs to stdout
+      version_added: 2.8.1
+      type: boolean
+      example: ~
+      default: "False"
     task_log_reader:
       description: |
         Name of handler to read task instance logs.

tests/dag_processing/test_job_runner.py

@@ -1460,3 +1460,20 @@ def test_launch_process(self):
         processor_agent._process.join()
 
         assert os.path.isfile(log_file_loc)
+
+    @conf_vars({("logging", "dag_processor_manager_log_stdout"): "True"})
+    def test_log_to_stdout(self, capfd):
+        test_dag_path = TEST_DAG_FOLDER / "test_scheduler_dags.py"
+        async_mode = "sqlite" not in conf.get("database", "sql_alchemy_conn")
+
+        # Starting dag processing with 0 max_runs to avoid redundant operations.
+        processor_agent = DagFileProcessorAgent(test_dag_path, 0, timedelta(days=365), [], False, async_mode)
+        processor_agent.start()
+        if not async_mode:
+            processor_agent.run_single_parsing_loop()
+
+        processor_agent._process.join()
+
+        # Capture the stdout and stderr
+        out, _ = capfd.readouterr()
+        assert "DAG File Processing Stats" in out