Why I don't have the admin tab in my side bar?

Questions
1

Hi,
I’m new here and new to n8n. I currently have Self hosted v1.95.3 installed on my Hostinger VPS Server. I have seen many videos where people have asked and shown how to update their version of n8n self hosted n8n instances. My question is why does mine not have the admin tab panel in the left side bar? I currently have a cron job and script to update mine once a week, but the admin panel could be easier.

2

The admin panel is only on cloud hosted instances.

On self hosted you need to manage updates yourself, that’s the main tradeoff of having it free, you’re responsible for maintenance

3

You can simply use docker container with “latest” tag then you can do upgrade easily. Which I use same method on my side.

4

Oh, thank you. I have it setup to update on a weekly bases, so I guess I’m good. thank you for the information.

5

You still need to restart and manually pull the latest image.
I usually recommend against using the latest tag and prefer using the actual versions in case you need to roll back to a working version. then you will know what your latest working version is

1 Like