The present application discloses a data flow processing method and apparatus for a data flow system. A specific implementation of the method includes: acquiring a to-be-processed data flow, and determining, according to a data flow processing instruction, at least one data flow processing node corresponding to the to-be-processed data flow and a passing order in which the to-be-processed data flow passes through the at least one data flow processing node; and connecting together the at least one data flow processing node according to the passing order to obtain a data flow processing channel, and importing the to-be-processed data flow to the data flow processing channel for data processing. This implementation improves the utilization of data flow processing nodes and the data flow processing efficiency.