Hi,
I’m using n8n Cloud.
I cannot publish any workflow.
I tested:
- A workflow with 60+ nodes.
- A reduced workflow.
- A brand-new workflow with only a Manual Trigger.
Every workflow stays on “Publishing…” indefinitely or eventually returns a 524 timeout.
Because publishing never completes, production webhooks are never registered, so Meta webhook verification fails with:
“The callback URL or verify token couldn’t be validated.”
Workspace:
bruhmiit.app.n8n.cloud
Can someone check whether my workspace or workflow activation service is stuck?
Hi @codegoat776 Welcome!
Publishing writes to your instance and registers the production triggers, so a publish that never returns means the instance itself has stopped answering, and Cloudflare cuts the request at 100 seconds with the 524. A brand-new workflow failing the same way rules out anything in your nodes, and the Meta error is just downstream of the webhook never getting registered.
Force the workspace to restart yourself: open https://app.n8n.cloud/manage, select Manage, then Workspace, pick a different version in the n8n version dropdown and select Change version. That triggers a 1 to 2 minute restart, which clears a hung publish path.
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If publishing still hangs after it comes back up, only n8n can clear it, email help@n8n.io with your workspace URL, one workflow ID, and roughly when it started failing.
Support routes and what to put in the request:
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@codegoat776
Did you try restarting the instance?
thank you very much @Anshul_Namdev for that clarity. Restarting the instance did the job.
i had not tried that before. Thank you it works fine now.