Error handler

★ 7.1 · n8n · simple · 3 nodes

Error handler is an n8n automation template that catches failures in other workflows and sends real-time error notifications to Telegram. Reach for it when you want to know immediately when an automation breaks instead of discovering it hours later, or when you need failure alerts delivered straight to a messenger without setting up a dedicated monitoring stack. The template is triggered by a webhook — another workflow calls this handler on error, which then composes a message and delivers it via the Telegram integration. Trigger: webhook. Integrations: Telegram. The node count is minimal: a webhook receiver that captures error details and a Telegram node that sends the alert. The direction is failure notification, not debugging workflow logic or preventing errors upstream. Works well for teams already running n8n pipelines who need a lightweight, centralized health check. Not a fit if you need an incident history, dashboards, or on-call escalation — those cases require a dedicated monitoring solution.