Postgres data freshness monitoring with email alerts

About This Workflow

Postgres Data Freshness Monitoring with Email Alerts

What This Workflow Does

This workflow monitors a set of tables inside a Postgres database to ensure they are getting updated regularly and sends email alerts if the data becomes stale. The workflow provides a proactive solution to identify data freshness issues before they impact business operations. By automating this process, users can reduce the risk of outdated data and improve overall data quality.

Who Should Use This

This workflow is ideal for data engineers, database administrators, and data analysts who need to ensure the integrity of their Postgres databases and want to automate data freshness monitoring and alerting processes.

Key Features

• Postgres Database Connection: Establishes a secure connection to the Postgres database to access the desired tables.
• Data Freshness Check: Monitors the specified tables for updates and calculates a freshness metric based on the defined threshold.
• Email Alerting: Sends email notifications to designated recipients when the data freshness threshold is breached.

How to Get Started

To use this workflow, simply import it into your n8n instance and customize the database connection, table names, and email notification settings to fit your specific requirements.