Monitor N8N Instance Health and Security with InfluxDB Audits
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This workflow automates comprehensive security and operational audits across your n8n instance, covering credentials, database, filesystem, nodes, and instance configurations. It then transforms this critical data into an InfluxDB-compatible format, enabling seamless ingestion for advanced time-series monitoring and analysis.
About This Workflow
Gain unparalleled visibility into your n8n deployment with this essential monitoring workflow. It systematically performs a series of detailed audits across key components of your n8n instance, including user credentials, database configurations, filesystem integrity, instance health, and node vulnerabilities. By consolidating these audit insights, the workflow then intelligently processes and formats the data into InfluxDB's line protocol. This enables you to leverage InfluxDB's powerful time-series capabilities for real-time dashboards, historical analysis, and alert generation, ensuring the security, stability, and optimal performance of your n8n automation environment. Empower your operations and security teams with actionable intelligence directly from your automation platform.
Key Features
- Comprehensive n8n Auditing: Automatically generates detailed audit reports for critical areas like credentials, database, filesystem, instance, and individual nodes.
- InfluxDB-Ready Data Formatting: Transforms complex audit data into the precise InfluxDB line protocol, ready for immediate ingestion and analysis.
- Automated Data Extraction: Efficiently pulls key risk indicators and specific report sections, streamlining the process of identifying potential issues.
- Scalable Monitoring Foundation: Provides the backbone for building robust monitoring dashboards and alert systems in InfluxDB to track n8n's operational health and security posture over time.
How To Use
- Configure n8n API Credentials: Ensure you have an n8n API credential set up in your n8n instance. This credential will allow the 'n8n' nodes to access and generate the audit reports of your own instance.
- Connect to InfluxDB: Add an InfluxDB node (not included in this snippet) as the final step in the workflow, connecting it to the 'Contactenate with Commas' node. Configure your InfluxDB connection details including the URL, Organization, Bucket, and API Token.
- Map InfluxDB Fields: In your InfluxDB node, map the concatenated data from the 'Contactenate with Commas' node (likely a field named
summarized.title_key_count) to thedata-binaryfield for sending the InfluxDB line protocol. - Execute the Workflow: Manually trigger the 'When clicking ‘Execute workflow’' node to generate and send the initial batch of audit data to InfluxDB.
- Set Up Scheduling (Optional): For continuous, automated monitoring, configure the manual trigger node with a cron schedule or an interval to execute the workflow regularly (e.g., daily, hourly).
Apps Used
Workflow JSON
{
"id": "a5f7e9d0-cfa5-406f-98d2-e95171d87c1d",
"name": "Monitor N8N Instance Health and Security with InfluxDB Audits",
"nodes": 16,
"category": "DevOps",
"status": "active",
"version": "1.0.0"
}Note: This is a sample preview. The full workflow JSON contains node configurations, credentials placeholders, and execution logic.
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