I want one place to see whether all our flows are healthy
Per-tool dashboards are fine but fragmented. For an SMB IT owner, one overview beats logging into 4 systems. A custom status page on a DB table is usually the simplest route.
Try this first
- 1Have every flow write a record at start and end to a central table: flow_id, run_id, start, end, status, error_summary.
- 2Build a dashboard (Metabase, Lightdash, Tableau, Power BI, or a simple Next.js page) with 4 metrics: runs/hour per flow, failure rate, p95 duration, last-run time.
- 3Alert if a flow has had no run for X minutes when it should run every minute. That catches 'silently stopped'.
- 4Add an owner per flow in the table so alerts go to the right person.
- 5Review the dashboard weekly: silent flows, slowing flows, flows with growing error rate. Trends beat single incidents.
When to bring us in
Want a shared monitoring layer across all your iPaaS tools, we can set up schema, ingest and dashboard.
See also
- n8n: self-host or cloud?Self-hosted is cheaper at volume and keeps data local. Cloud removes ops burden.
- Zapier or Make: which fits better?Zapier is straight-line; Make handles complex flows with routers and iterators for less money.
- Power Automate Cloud or Desktop: which to use?Cloud for SaaS integrations and triggers. Desktop for RPA against legacy Windows apps without APIs.
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