Airflow is a workflow management system for authoring, scheduling and monitoring workflows or directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) of tasks. It supports authoring workflows as Python code with built-in operators to interact with external systems and databases. Airflow has a modular architecture allowing different executors like Celery and Kubernetes. It provides features like variables, connections, XComs and service level agreements. The user interface allows visualizing and monitoring DAGs and includes data profiling capabilities. Airflow also has a command line interface and supports security features like authentication and impersonation.