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However, in some cases, a scheduled task or service consuming excessive resources might trigger a surge of errors.\n\nTo address this, we can log all errors but limit alerts to a maximum of one notification every 5 minutes.\n\n## What this workflow does\n\nThis workflow can be configured to receive error events, or you can integrate it **before your own error-handling logic.** \n\nIf used as the **primary error handler**, note that this flow will **only add a database log entry** and take no further action. You’ll need to add your own alerts (e.g., email or push notifications). Below is an example of a notification setup I prefer to use. \n\nAt the end, there’s an **error cleanup** option. This feature is particularly useful in development environments. \n\nIf you already have an error-handling workflow, you can call this one as a **sub-workflow**. Its final steps include cleanup logic to reset the execution state and terminate the workflow.\n\n## Setup\n\n**Verify all Postgres nodes and credentials when using the 'Error Handling Sample'**\n\n## How to adjust it to your needs\n\n1) You can set this workflow as a sub-workflow within your existing error-handling setup.\n\n2) Alternatively, you can add the \"Error Handling Sample\" at the end of this workflow, which sends email and push notifications.\n\nConfiguration Requirements:\n\n⚠️ You must create a database table for this to work!\n\n\n\nDDL of this sample:\n\ncreate table p1gq6ljdsam3x1m.\"N8Err\"\n(\n id serial\n primary key,\n created_at timestamp,\n updated_at timestamp,\n created_by varchar,\n updated_by varchar,\n nc_order numeric,\n title text,\n \"URL\" text,\n \"Stack\" text,\n json json,\n \"Message\" text,\n \"LastNode\" text\n);\n\nalter table p1gq6ljdsam3x1m.\"N8Err\"\n owner to postgres;\n\ncreate index \"N8Err_order_idx\"\n on p1gq6ljdsam3x1m.\"N8Err\" (nc_order);\n\nby Davi Saranszky Mesquita\nhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/mesquitadavi/" }, "typeVersion": 1 }, { "id": "fba7fec5-5285-46bd-9cc7-270b7dcc8c5f", "name": "Principal E-Mail", "type": "n8n-nodes-base.emailSend", "onError": "continueErrorOutput", "disabled": true, "position": [ -980, 350 ], "webhookId": "d76d2e82-b0a8-4e35-88f9-1815d4ce6c79", "parameters": { "text": "={{ $(\"Error Trigger\").item.json.execution.url }}\n\n{{ $(\"Error Trigger\").item.json.execution.lastNodeExecuted }}\n\n{{ $(\"Error Trigger\").item.json.execution.error.message }}\n{{ $(\"Error Trigger\").item.json.execution.error.stack }}", "options": { "appendAttribution": false }, "subject": "=Erro - 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See below if you will prepend this workflow", "type": "main", "index": 0 } ] ] }, "Call this Sample - Prepend to your error catcher": { "main": [ [ { "node": "Principal E-Mail", "type": "main", "index": 0 }, { "node": "Push mobile notification", "type": "main", "index": 0 } ] ] }, "See below to prepend this at your error handling": { "main": [ [ { "node": "Insert Log", "type": "main", "index": 0 }, { "node": "Count for 5 minutes", "type": "main", "index": 0 } ] ] }, "CleanUp execution. See below if you will prepend this workflow": { "main": [ [] ] } } }