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Insights#

Insights gives instance owners and admins visibility into how workflows perform over time. This feature consists of three parts:

  • Insights summary banner: Shows key metrics about your instance from the last 7 days at the top of the overview space.
  • Insights dashboard: A more detailed visual breakdown with per-workflow metrics and historical comparisons.
  • Time saved (Workflow ROI): For each workflow, you can set the number of minutes saved for each production execution.

Feature availability

The insights summary banner displays activity from the last 7 days for all plans. The insights dashboard is only available on Pro (with limited date ranges) and Enterprise plans.

Insights summary banner#

n8n collects several metrics for both the insights summary banner and dashboard. They include:

  • Total production executions (not including sub-workflow executions or manual executions)
  • Total failed production executions
  • Production execution failure rate
  • Time saved (when set on at least one or more active workflows)
  • Run time average (including wait time from any wait nodes)

Insights dashboard#

Those on the Pro and Enterprise plans can access the Insights section from the side navigation. Each metric from the summary banner is also clickable, taking you to the corresponding chart.

The insights dashboard also has a table showing individual insights from each workflow including total production executions, failed production executions, failure rate, time saved, and run time average.

Insights time periods#

The insights summary banner and dashboard always shows a rolling 7 day window with a comparison to the previous period to show increases or decreases for each metric.

Disable or configure insights metrics collection#

If you self-host n8n, you can disable or configure insights and metrics collection using environment variables.