Stuck until "Stop/Start" automation

My automation (trigger Telegram message, than AI, than Mongo) stuck and doesn’t work until I going to admin panel - stop & start again workflow.

I hadn’t any error messagers. Even in execution is - no log. Empty. No events.

After stop & start - I see - how to run workflow - I see result (All is ok) in executions log

Information on your n8n setup

  • 1.84.3
  • *Database: Postgres
  • n8n EXECUTIONS_PROCESS setting (default: own):
  • Running n8n via (Docker-compose):
  • Operating system: Ubuntu 24.10

Few things to help us figure more out for you:

Could you ctl a, ctl c the workflow, click the ‘</>’ button on the forums when drafting a reply and paste the workflow into the field that appears? Will help with context.

What/where is the docker compose hosted/located? What server specs does it have? Is it behind a domain with SSL? Just an IP?

(It sounds like a high load/inefficient workflow + low specs. But can’t say for sure.)

How? json is like 58000, but limit here is 32000…

Docker-compose - hosted on 1Gb Ram droplet on DigitalOcean. |
1 GB / 10 GB Disk / FRA1 - Ubuntu 24.10 x64
Have domain, ssl.

All cases works fine all time. But sometimes - one or two workflow - stuck and doesn’t work. After start/stop - handle all messages from bot chat - and normal processing it. Without any problems, or bugs.

Oh wow. Yeah.

That sounds like both cases.

An extremely large, potentially inefficient workflow. And massively under-spec for such a large usecase. I could recommend some workflow improvements potentially, maybe share as a google doc?

I would highly advise getting at least 4gb perhaps even 8gb RAM. 1gb RAM is insanely small. I have allocated over 42gb from my main server to n8n (rare case, handling millions of rows).

Thanks for your interest.
|My_Plan_Assist_copy.json - Google Drive

Added a temporary solution.
Created a flow that stops/starts other flows once an hour. If the flow itself doesn’t die, it will work )))

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