Connection lost message and I can't save

Questions
1

Connection lost on both my free hosted site on render, but I also created a free trial version and had the same error. My I have another user on both sites, for the render version they see the same error. But not on the free trial version.

I rolled back from latest to 1.118.1, 1.117.3, but it had the same problem.

To Reproduce

  1. Go to https://n8n-XXXX.onrender.com/workflow/dUwdxkxAU41jdZcd
    or https://xxxxxxxx.app.n8n.cloud/workflow/YoGFyt9UvrSJW4D8

  2. Look in top right corner, there is no save icon, just the ā€˜connection lostā€™ message.

Expected behaviour

I need it to be connected so I can save my workflows

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Debug Info

Debug info

core

  • n8nVersion: 1.119.1

  • platform: docker (self-hosted)

  • nodeJsVersion: 22.21.0

  • nodeEnv: production

  • database: sqlite

  • executionMode: regular

  • concurrency: -1

  • license: enterprise (production)

  • consumerId: dc428ae3-ef35-4289-8427-21c777a1cb8f

storage

  • success: all

  • error: all

  • progress: false

  • manual: true

  • binaryMode: memory

pruning

  • enabled: true

  • maxAge: 336 hours

  • maxCount: 10000 executions

client

  • userAgent: mozilla/5.0 (windows nt 10.0; win64; x64) applewebkit/537.36 (khtml, like gecko) chrome/122.0.0.0 safari/537.36

  • isTouchDevice: false

Generated at: 2025-11-12T16:45:07.613Z
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Operating System

linux/arm64

n8n Version

latest and 1.118.1, 1.117.3, I rolled back

Node.js Version

22.21.0

Database

SQLite (default)

Execution mode

main (default)

Hosting

Self hosted and n8n clound

2

Iā€™ve been experiencing this issue as well for the last couple of weeks. I do not have a solution to how you can save your work. However, I have concluded this could potentially be a browser issue.

This was happening when I was using Safari, however, Iā€™ve been using n8n via Brave (Chrome alternative) for the last few days and I have no experienced any connection lost issues.

3

Thanks for the reply, similar to you I found I had to do 2 things:

  1. Had to change to the hosted version,
  2. Change to a different browser, edge and comet both work, but only on the hosted version. My self-hosted version doesnā€™t work on those either.
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