Tip: get rid of the rating feedback (thumbs up down) popup panel on the execution views

[jb8n]

Hi there,

I have been annoyed for a while by the executing rating panel, and finally got rid of it for good today.

Context

In 2024, n8n introduced a rating panel on execution views. That was not welcome for everyone:

Execution Rating screen bothers us

Hi there, During execution review there is a rating screen that its bothering me requesting a feedback, when the most important is to understand what is going on and this screen is blocking us to see the nodes. If you need a feedback please ask that in another place, also I can´t remove this stupid screen. [image]

Disabling the ratings UI

Is there a way to remove this ratings box from my executions UI? it’s kind of distracting [image] Information on your n8n setup n8n version: 1.67.1

Solution

Without having to run TamperMonkey on all clients, here’s a solution to remove the panel on self-hosted instances, using Apache.

What it does:

• unset the compression for execution pages, so that the page can be parsed
• inject a script on execution pages only, that hides the rating panel

Installation

1. Add these lines in the Apache virtual host file (e.g. <VirtualHost *:443>)

    # Hides n8n execution rating popup panel
    <LocationMatch "^/workflow/[^/]+/executions/[^/]+$">
        RequestHeader unset Accept-Encoding
        SetOutputFilter SUBSTITUTE
        AddOutputFilterByType SUBSTITUTE text/html
        Substitute "s|</head>|<script>document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded',function(){function h(){const e=document.querySelector('.execution-annotation-panel');if(e)e.style.display='none';}h();new MutationObserver(h).observe(document.body,{childList:true,subtree:true});});</script></head>|ni"
    </LocationMatch>

2. Activate Apache’s substitute module and restart

a2enmod substitute
systemctl restart apache2

That’s it, would probably work with nginx’s equivalent too. n8n still rocks. Hope that helps!