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About Cronly
Cronly is a monitoring and alerting service built specifically for n8n workflow automation. It watches your n8n workflows for failures, missed executions, and performance issues, then sends notifications through Slack, Discord, email, or webhooks when something goes wrong. If you run n8n workflows that your business depends on, Cronly tells you when they break before your customers notice.
The problem Cronly solves is workflow reliability visibility. n8n is powerful for building automation, but it does not provide robust built-in monitoring for production workloads. If a scheduled workflow fails at 2am, you might not find out until someone reports missing data the next morning. Cronly watches for exactly this: failed executions, workflows that should have run but did not, and execution times that exceed your defined thresholds.
At Osher, Cronly is a standard part of our n8n consulting engagements. When we build and deploy n8n workflows for clients, we set up Cronly monitoring so that both our team and yours know immediately when something needs attention. This ties into our broader process automation services where workflow reliability directly impacts business operations. We have written about n8n hosting and operations in our self-hosting guide.
Cronly FAQs
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about how Cronly consultants can help with integration and implementation
What does Cronly actually monitor?
How does Cronly connect to our n8n instance?
What notification channels does Cronly support?
Can Cronly monitor multiple n8n instances?
Is Cronly only for n8n, or does it work with other automation platforms?
What should we configure when setting up Cronly?
How it works
We work hand-in-hand with you to implement Cronly
As Cronly consultants we work with you hand in hand build more efficient and effective operations. Here’s how we will work with you to automate your business and integrate Cronly with integrate and automate 800+ tools.
Step 1
Process Audit
We review your n8n deployment, cataloguing all active workflows, their schedules, dependencies, and business criticality. We identify which workflows are mission-critical (where a failure impacts customers or revenue), which are important but can tolerate brief delays, and which are non-critical development or experimental workflows.
Step 2
Identify Automation Opportunities
We determine the monitoring strategy for each workflow category: real-time alerts for critical workflows, daily digest summaries for less urgent ones, and performance threshold alerts for workflows where execution speed matters. We also identify which notification channels match your team’s on-call and response processes.
Step 3
Design Workflows
We design the Cronly monitoring configuration: API connection setup, per-workflow monitoring rules, execution time thresholds, alert routing (which failures go to which channels), and escalation paths for unacknowledged alerts. We also plan the Cronly setup alongside your existing monitoring and incident response tools.
Step 4
Implementation
We configure Cronly with your n8n instance API credentials, set up monitoring for each workflow according to the plan, configure notification channels (Slack, Discord, email, or webhook destinations), and test alert delivery by triggering intentional failures on non-critical workflows.
Step 5
Quality Assurance Review
We verify that Cronly correctly detects workflow failures, missed executions, and performance threshold breaches. We test each notification channel to confirm delivery, validate that alert routing sends critical and non-critical notifications to the correct destinations, and confirm that false positive rates are acceptable.
Step 6
Support and Maintenance
After setup, we adjust monitoring thresholds based on observed workflow performance, add monitoring for new workflows as they are deployed, update notification routing as your team structure changes, and review alert history periodically to identify workflows that fail frequently and may need rebuilding.
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