diff --git a/airflow/www/templates/airflow/dags.html b/airflow/www/templates/airflow/dags.html
index 3f4b9f69b525e..f4684c8300aa7 100644
--- a/airflow/www/templates/airflow/dags.html
+++ b/airflow/www/templates/airflow/dags.html
@@ -103,13 +103,11 @@ <h2>DAGs</h2>
 
                 <!-- Column 7: Last Run -->
                 <td class="text-nowrap latest_dag_run {{ dag.dag_id }}">
-                  {% set last_run = dag.get_last_dagrun(include_externally_triggered=True) %}
-                  {% if last_run and last_run.execution_date %}
-                    <a href="{{ url_for('Airflow.graph', dag_id=dag.dag_id, execution_date=last_run.execution_date) }}">
-                      {{ last_run.execution_date.strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M") }}
-                    </a>
-                    <span aria-hidden="true" id="statuses_info" title="Start Date: {{ last_run.start_date.strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M") }}" class="glyphicon glyphicon-info-sign"></span>
-                  {% endif %}
+                  <div height="10" width="10" id='last-run-{{ dag.safe_dag_id }}' style="display: block;">
+                    <a></a>
+                    <img class="loading-last-run" width="15" src="{{ url_for("static", filename="loading.gif") }}">
+                    <span aria-hidden="true" id="statuses_info" title=" " class="glyphicon glyphicon-info-sign" style="display:none"></span>
+                  </div>
                 </td>
 
                 <!-- Column 8: Dag Runs -->
@@ -309,6 +307,21 @@ <h2>DAGs</h2>
           }
         });
       });
+      d3.json("{{ url_for('Airflow.last_dagruns') }}", function(error, json) {
+        for(var safe_dag_id in json) {
+          dag_id = json[safe_dag_id].dag_id;
+          last_run = json[safe_dag_id].last_run;
+          g = d3.select('div#last-run-' + safe_dag_id)
+          g.selectAll('a')
+            .attr("href", "{{ url_for('Airflow.graph') }}?dag_id=" + encodeURIComponent(dag_id) + "&execution_date=" + last_run)
+            .text(last_run);
+          g.selectAll('span')
+            .attr("data-original-title", "Start Date: " + last_run)
+            .style('display', null);
+          g.selectAll(".loading-last-run").remove();
+        }
+        d3.selectAll(".loading-last-run").remove();
+      });
       d3.json("{{ url_for('Airflow.dag_stats') }}", function(error, json) {
         for(var dag_id in json) {
             states = json[dag_id];
diff --git a/airflow/www/views.py b/airflow/www/views.py
index d5ac9808fffaa..a1210e2c08728 100644
--- a/airflow/www/views.py
+++ b/airflow/www/views.py
@@ -403,6 +403,33 @@ def task_stats(self, session=None):
                 })
         return wwwutils.json_response(payload)
 
+    @expose('/last_dagruns')
+    @has_access
+    @provide_session
+    def last_dagruns(self, session=None):
+        DagRun = models.DagRun
+
+        filter_dag_ids = appbuilder.sm.get_accessible_dag_ids()
+
+        if not filter_dag_ids:
+            return
+
+        dags_to_latest_runs = dict(session.query(
+            DagRun.dag_id, sqla.func.max(DagRun.execution_date).label('execution_date'))
+            .group_by(DagRun.dag_id).all())
+
+        payload = {}
+        for dag in dagbag.dags.values():
+            dag_accessible = 'all_dags' in filter_dag_ids or dag.dag_id in filter_dag_ids
+            if (dag_accessible and dag.dag_id in dags_to_latest_runs and
+                    dags_to_latest_runs[dag.dag_id]):
+                payload[dag.safe_dag_id] = {
+                    'dag_id': dag.dag_id,
+                    'last_run': dags_to_latest_runs[dag.dag_id].strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M")
+                }
+
+        return wwwutils.json_response(payload)
+
     @expose('/code')
     @has_dag_access(can_dag_read=True)
     @has_access
diff --git a/tests/www/test_views.py b/tests/www/test_views.py
index e2ab673db05f1..ce593da003a8d 100644
--- a/tests/www/test_views.py
+++ b/tests/www/test_views.py
@@ -490,6 +490,10 @@ def test_graph(self):
         resp = self.client.get(url, follow_redirects=True)
         self.check_content_in_response('runme_1', resp)
 
+    def test_last_dagruns(self):
+        resp = self.client.get('last_dagruns', follow_redirects=True)
+        self.check_content_in_response('example_bash_operator', resp)
+
     def test_tree(self):
         url = 'tree?dag_id=example_bash_operator'
         resp = self.client.get(url, follow_redirects=True)