One of the only features I miss from using Zapier is the ability to type in a phrase and find any workflow run that has that phrase literally anywhere. It makes it so easy to debug in the future and I use it constantly.
N8N’s only way to search executions by what was contained in them is to be proactive about setting execution data. This is already a bummer, but only having an exact match on the search is pretty restrictive.
It makes execution data pretty much useless for any workflow that runs on more than one record, because you then can’t use the search to look for a specific ID for example. If “Contains” was an option I’d store a comma separated list of IDs that were operated on so I could find it later.
I’m guessing n8n doesn’t let you search the entire execution data because execution data is HUGE. So I get that. But contains search would solve a lot of problems.