understanding the tree view in apache airflow

Question

I setup the dag from the https://airflow.apache.org/tutorial.html as is, the only change being that I have set the dag to run at an interval of 5 minutes with a start date of 20

Answer 1

They are not separate instances. You can see this:

1. In Tree View, the start/end dates and duration of both circles will be exactly the same.

2. In Gantt view, you will see the duration for only a single instance of print_date.

In general, you can't map a DAG to a tree view without duplicating nodes like they've done.