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Root-cause suppression

Root-cause suppression means alerting on the cause rather than every symptom. When an n8n instance goes down, every workflow on it becomes overdue at once. Instead of sending forty missed-run alerts, Norvane sends one instance-down alert and holds the rest.

What happens to the suppressed incidents?

While an instance-down incident is open, missed-run incidents for that instance's workflows are neither opened nor alerted. When the instance recovers, they are re-evaluated before anything is sent — most have self-healed, because the workflows resumed the moment the instance came back.

Related terms

  • Missed run

    A missed run is a scheduled workflow execution that never happened — detected by absence rather than by an error, because nothing failed.