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Workflow health
Track healthy, failing, stale, archived, missing, waiting, running, canceled, crashed, and timeout states.
Self-hosted monitoring · integrates with n8n
See when your n8n workflows break — before your users do.
n8-m8 is a separate self-hosted monitoring layer that integrates with n8n: workflow maps, health, executions, alerts, logs, tenant status, and version context in one calm control room.
- Free for personal use
- homelab, education, and non-commercial automation monitoring
- Paid for commercial use
- business, client, MSP, and revenue-generating automation operations
No account, email gate, activation server, or telemetry for personal self-hosting.
n8-m8 is an independent, self-hosted monitoring tool that integrates with n8n. It gives operators workflow maps, execution health, alerts, logs, version/blame context, tenant status, and metadata-only credential visibility. It is coded in Australia, free for personal and non-commercial use, $30/month for freelancers and consultants, and contact-for-pricing for MSPs and automation businesses.
Coded in Australia
Built by a self-hoster, for your n8n m8.
The “m8” is deliberate: say it like mate. n8-m8 is your automation mate — a watchful companion for the n8n workflows you actually rely on. Designed and coded in Australia for self-hosters, consultants, MSPs, and teams who want calm workflow monitoring without giving up control.
Built for live automations
Everything operators need after workflows become important.
n8-m8 turns scattered execution history, container logs, and “is this thing still running?” checks into one operational surface for teams running their own n8n environments.
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Execution monitoring
Review recent and historical runs, failure patterns, run duration, status filters, and workflow drilldowns.
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Alerts that explain
Surface failed executions, repeated failures, resolution state, notification routing, and the context needed to recover.
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Multi-tenant visibility
Monitor one or more customer-authorised n8n instances with stable connection identity, tenant health, and degraded-state warnings.
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Operational logs
Read structured app/runtime logs, extractor lifecycle events, connection failures, and recovery signals without SSH archaeology.
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Workflow map
Explore workflows, credentials, tags, alerts, and dependencies in a dense, dot-first graph built for real n8n estates.
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Version + blame context
Correlate workflow changes with execution outcomes so teams can see what changed before failures started.
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Credential metadata
Optionally inventory credential metadata with credential:list only — no secret reads and no detail endpoint scraping.
Real product surfaces
Screenshots, not stylized mockups.
The marketing page uses actual n8-m8 UI captures: dashboard cards, Blame/change impact, entry-node failure details, alert configuration, and the workflow map demo.
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Fair-code for self-hosters
Source-available code you can inspect, run, and trust.
Personal users should not have to trade privacy for monitoring. n8-m8 is designed for Docker-based self-hosting with no account, no email gate, no activation server, and no telemetry. It is fair-code / source-available, not OSI open source: personal and non-commercial use are free, freelancers and consultants can support/subscribe at $30/month via GitHub Sponsors, while MSPs and automation businesses should contact for pricing.
git clone https://github.com/n8m8-app/n8-m8.git
cd n8-m8
cp .env.example .env
cp config/n8n.example.yml config/n8n.yml
# add your n8n URL + API key
docker compose up --buildRuns locally. Stores data in your Postgres. Keeps your workflow operations under your control.
Sustainable by design
Free for personal use. $30/mo for freelancers. Contact us for MSP pricing.
Personal and homelab use stays free. Freelancers and consultants can use n8-m8 commercially for $30/month via GitHub Sponsors. MSPs, automation agencies, managed-service providers, and larger automation businesses should contact for pricing.
Simple rule
license signal
Simple commercial rule: solo operators sponsor, businesses talk to us.
No phone-home DRM for self-hosters. Personal use is free; freelancers and consultants can sponsor at $30/month; MSPs and automation businesses get pricing that matches their scale.
Personal: free
Freelancers: $30/mo
MSP/business: contact us
Free personally. Clear pricing professionally.
Choose the path that matches how you use n8n.
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 GitHub Sponsors page
- Simple monthly support path: $30/month
MSP + automation business
Contact us
For MSPs, automation agencies, managed service providers, and businesses running n8-m8 across teams, clients, or revenue-generating automation operations.
- MSP / agency / automation-business licensing
- Multi-client and team use
- Support, deployment, and hosted options
- Pricing matched to usage and support needs
Questions operators ask
Clear terms, no weird self-hosted surprises.
Is n8-m8 free?
Yes, for personal, homelab, educational, and non-commercial use. Freelancers and consultants can use it commercially for $30/month via GitHub Sponsors.
Do I need an account?
No. Personal use requires no account, no email, no activation, and no telemetry.
What counts as commercial use?
Freelance or consulting client work is covered by the $30/month GitHub Sponsors tier. MSPs, automation agencies, managed automation services, internal business operations, and larger revenue-generating workflow operations should contact for pricing.
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 is self-hosted separately, external to the n8n editor/UI, customer-authorised, read-only for monitoring surfaces, and does not redistribute, host, iframe, white-label, or replace n8n.
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 GitHub Sponsors; MSPs and automation businesses should contact for pricing.
Sponsors
Backed by people who want better n8n operations.
Sponsors help keep n8-m8 sustainable for self-hosters while funding the polish, support, and operational reliability businesses expect.
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Put it on watch
Give your n8n automations an operations layer.
Start free for personal self-hosting. Freelancers and consultants can get commercial use through GitHub Sponsors at $30/month. MSPs and automation businesses should contact us for pricing.