Workflow health
See which workflows are healthy, failing, stale, waiting, running, crashed, timed out, or missing.
Self-hosted monitoring · integrates with n8n
Know when your n8n workflows break
n8-m8 runs beside n8n and shows you what is broken, slow, stale, or changing across your workflows. You get workflow maps, run history, alerts, logs, tenant health, and change history in one place.
- Free for personal use
- homelab, education, and non-commercial automation monitoring
- Paid for commercial use
- business, client, MSP, and revenue-generating automation operations
No lock-inNo account, email gate, activation server, or telemetry for personal self-hosting.
n8-m8 is a self-hosted monitoring tool for n8n. It shows workflow health, failed runs, alerts, logs, tenant status, change history, and credential metadata without reading secrets. It is built in Australia. Personal and non-commercial use is free; commercial use starts at $30/month.
Coded in Australia
Built by a self-hoster, for your n8n m8.
The “m8” is deliberate: say it like mate. n8-m8 is built in Australia for people running n8n themselves: homelabbers, consultants, MSPs, and teams who want to monitor workflows without sending everything to another SaaS dashboard.
Built for live automations
For when your workflows stop being side projects.
Once n8n is running real work, the questions change: what failed, what changed, what is stale, and which client or tenant is affected? n8-m8 puts those answers in one place.
Execution monitoring
Review recent and past runs, filter by status, and drill into failures without jumping between screens.
Alerts that explain
Get alerts with enough context to act: failed runs, repeat failures, routing, resolution state, and recovery notes.
Multi-tenant visibility
Monitor one n8n instance or many client instances, with clear tenant health and degraded-state warnings.
Workflow map
Map workflows, credentials, tags, alerts, and dependencies so you can see what is connected to what.
Version + blame context
See which workflow changes happened before failures started.
Credential metadata
Optionally list credential metadata using credential:list. n8-m8 does not read secrets or scrape credential detail endpoints.
Real product surfaces
What n8-m8 looks like
Source-available and self-hosted
Source-available code you can inspect and run yourself.
n8-m8 is source-available and built for Docker self-hosting. For personal use, there is no account, email gate, activation server, or telemetry. It is not OSI open source. Personal and non-commercial use are free. Commercial use is paid so the project can stay maintained.
Pricing
Free for personal use. Paid for client and business use.
Personal use is free. If you use n8-m8 for paid client work or business operations, pick the tier that matches how you use it.
Simple rule
commercial use
Solo client work is $30/month. MSP, agency, and business use is $99/month.
No phone-home licensing for personal self-hosting. Paid tiers cover client and business use without adding an activation server.
Personal: free
Freelancers: $30/mo
MSP/business: $99/month
Free for personal use. Paid for client and business use.
Pick the tier that matches how you use n8n.
If you use n8-m8 for paid client work or business operations, use a paid tier.
Personal
Free
For personal, homelab, educational, and non-commercial use.
- Self-hosted Docker deployment
- No account, email, activation, or telemetry
- Workflow health, executions, alerts, logs, and maps
- Source-available code you can inspect
- Optional support via Buy Me a Coffee
Freelancers + consultants
$30/mo
For solo freelancers and consultants using n8-m8 on paid client work or professional automation operations.
- Commercial use rights for one freelance/consulting operator
- Client workflow monitoring and consulting work
- Get it through the membership page
- Simple monthly support path: $30/month
MSP + automation business
$99/month
For MSPs, automation agencies, managed service providers, and businesses running n8-m8 across teams, clients, or revenue-generating automation operations.
- Commercial use rights for MSPs, agencies, and automation businesses
- Multi-client and team use
- Support, deployment, and hosted options
- Simple monthly support path: $99/month
FAQ
Simple terms for self-hosting.
Is n8-m8 free?
Yes, for personal, homelab, educational, and non-commercial use. Freelancers and consultants can use it commercially for $30/month via the membership page.
Do I need an account?
No. Personal use requires no account, no email, no activation, and no telemetry.
What counts as commercial use?
If you use n8-m8 for paid client work as a solo freelancer or consultant, use the $30/month tier. If you run it for an MSP, agency, team, internal business operations, or managed automation service, use the $99/month tier.
Is this affiliated with n8n?
No. n8-m8 is an independent, separate tool that integrates with n8n. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or an official n8n product.
What boundaries keep this separate from n8n?
n8-m8 runs separately from n8n. It does not iframe, host, white-label, redistribute, or replace n8n. Monitoring access is customer-authorised, with read-only access used wherever n8n allows it.
Does n8-m8 read credential secrets?
No. Optional credential inventory uses metadata-only list access and does not fetch credential secret payloads.
Where is the code?
The source-available project lives on GitHub, with docs, deployment notes, issues, and releases linked above.
Is n8-m8 OSI open source?
No. n8-m8 is fair-code / source-available. Personal and non-commercial use are free. Freelancers and consultants can use it commercially for $30/month via the membership page; MSPs and automation businesses can use it commercially for $99/month via the membership page.
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