Trouble with n8n assistant

Dev tooling3 posts from 3 people3d active+11 post in the last 7 days, 1 the 7 days before (steady)

Posts per day3 posts, Sep 10 to Oct 21

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3, newest first

GitHub issuesOct 15 n8n Cloud: repeated AI Assistant 502 errors followed by workspace offline (503)Hello n8n team, My previous issue was closed because it was not written in English. I am resubmitting the report in English. I am experiencing two problems in n8n Cloud: 1. The AI Assistant repeatedly returns Cloudflare 502 Bad Gateway errors. 2. My workspace subsequently...n8n-io/n8n · pui0226-create2 repliesOpen ↗Community forumsOct 11 How can I change the LLM model used by the n8n Assistant?n8n Community · SimonKnudsen2 repliesOpen ↗GitHub issuesSep 10 n8n Assistant self-hosted sandbox: workspace seeding never completes, unbounded 503s under concurrent file writes...runner registers, heartbeats, runner_healthy=true, capacity_used=0. Assessment The bottleneck appears to be between the API and the runner, not at either endpoint. Client-side seeding fans out hundreds of concurrent file writes; the queue grows without bound, requests time out...n8n-io/n8n · certifiedccsk1 repliesOpen ↗

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3 posts from 3 people in 2 places, about 1 a week over 36 days. Mostly on n8n-io/n8n, n8n Community. Tools named alongside: SQLite, Docker, Cloudflare.

Frustration Frustration 0 of 3· Seen on GitHub issues, Community forums

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Posts about n8n with no known issue, sharing the word "assistant". First post Sep 10, 2026, latest Oct 15, 2026. Corroborated: 3 or more posts from 2 or more people or places. Method

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MomentumOct 18, 2026rising to steady

CorroborationOct 17, 2026unverified to corroborated

MomentumOct 17, 2026steady to rising

AddedOct 12, 2026Trouble with n8n assistant (2 posts)