Monitor workflow errors with n8n API, log to Google Sheets, and alert via Slack

Who is this for?

This workflow is built for n8n admins, automation agencies, solopreneurs, and ops teams running multiple workflows in production who need to know the moment something breaks.

If you're manually checking your n8n execution logs every day to catch failures or worse, finding out about broken workflows days later this template gives you real-time monitoring with zero effort.

What problem does this solve?

- Failed workflows go unnoticed for hours or days because nobody checks the execution log - When you do find a failure, you have to dig through execution data to figure out what went wrong - No centralized error history you can't spot patterns or recurring issues - Alert fatigue from generic monitoring tools that don't tell you why something failed or how to fix it

What this workflow does

This workflow monitors your entire n8n instance for failed executions and handles the full error lifecycle automatically:

- Continuous monitoring runs every minute on a schedule (or on-demand via webhook) - Smart filtering only processes failures from the last 5 minutes and excludes its own executions to prevent alert loops - Automatic error classification categorizes every failure into one of 7 types: Auth Error, Rate Limit, Network, Data/Config Error, Not Found, Server Error, and Permission - Severity assignment tags each error as 🔴 Critical, 🟠 High, or 🟡 Medium - Suggested fixes — generates an actionable fix suggestion for each error category (e.g., "Re-authenticate credential for: [node name]") - Google Sheets logging appends a detailed row to your error log with timestamp, workflow name, error category, severity, message, suggested fix, and retry status - Color-coded Slack alerts sends a formatted message to your alerts channel with the workflow name, failed node, error type, error message, suggested fix, and clickable links to the workflow and execution