I’m building a simple AI assistant that can receive messages from Google Chat and send a reply. My workflow is: Webhook trigger → AI Agent → Create a message (Google Chat).
It works fine except for one thing: after messaging the bot, Google Chat immediate sends an alert “[bot name] not responding”, even though the reply is sent immediately after.
I’ve tried these but can’t solve the issue:
Set webhook to Respond immediately with No response body and respond code 200 / 204
Use a separate Respond to webhook node to handle the respond, also with No response body and respond code 200/204
i ran onto the same problem! not n8n related tho… but the problem is: google changed how these stuff is configured. (yeah, their doc doesnt let that quite explicit…)
Now, everytime you enable the Chat API there in the console, in the configuration tab, there will be an ugly and displaced checkbox that essentially marks your app as internal-only (my case) or a google workspace add-on. If you disable it, same old configs work. If you let it enabled and go Live, its an addon and its new rules.
I was creating a new app last week and didnt bother with this checkbox, and when I used my app in gchat I was so confused on why the “app not responding" bubble was there? And then I created another project, another chat api enabled - and there it was, ugly checkbox at the top. Made me lose my head for a couple days.
oh I completely forgot about this thread!
thanks for sharing your experience tk_skad! in my case, the problem was my webhook response didn’t match Google’s requirement for a webhook response, so Google didn’t accept it → “bot not responding” alert. after changing the response to Google-approved structure, the alert goes away.
hi @btl008 !! What do you mean by that?? I’m getting the annoying “not responding” message every time the bot answers anything, and I can’t find a solution. Your help would be very welcome!!
Hey people! I am running into the same issue. My bot is responding just fine but I get that bubble saying “bot is not responding”. Any fixes out there?
Google Chat requires the webhook response to have a specific header / body, otherwise it’ll consider the response invalid and send the alert message. You can’t use the pre-defined settings, but have to configure the webhook response like this:
