Log workflow errors to Slack and Google Sheets

Who’s it for This template is for teams using n8n in production who want immediate visibility into workflow failures. It’s ideal for DevOps teams, automation engineers, and operations teams who need reliable error monitoring, alerting, and historical logs without building custom observability tooling.

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What it does / How it works This workflow automatically captures and logs errors whenever any other n8n workflow fails.

Here’s how it works:

1. The Error Trigger node activates automatically when a workflow execution fails. 2. It captures key error details: - Workflow name - Execution URL - Last node executed - Error message 3. A formatted alert message is generated. 4. The error summary is immediately sent to a designated slack channel for real-time visibility. 5. At the same time, the full error details are appended as a new row in a Google Sheets document for long-term tracking and analysis.

All of this runs automatically with no manual intervention.

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Requirements To use this workflow, you’ll need: