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Alternatives to n8n

Airflow, Zapier, Huginn, IFTTT, and Integromat are the most popular alternatives and competitors to n8n.
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What is n8n and what are its top alternatives?

It is a free node based Workflow Automation Tool. Easily automate tasks accross different services. Synchronise data between different apps/databases.
n8n is a tool in the Web Service Automation category of a tech stack.
n8n is an open source tool with 39.4K GitHub stars and 4.7K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to n8n's open source repository on GitHub

Top Alternatives to n8n

  • Airflow
    Airflow

    Use Airflow to author workflows as directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) of tasks. The Airflow scheduler executes your tasks on an array of workers while following the specified dependencies. Rich command lines utilities makes performing complex surgeries on DAGs a snap. The rich user interface makes it easy to visualize pipelines running in production, monitor progress and troubleshoot issues when needed. ...

  • Zapier
    Zapier

    Zapier is for busy people who know their time is better spent selling, marketing, or coding. Instead of wasting valuable time coming up with complicated systems - you can use Zapier to automate the web services you and your team are already using on a daily basis. ...

  • Huginn
    Huginn

    It is a system for building agents that perform automated tasks for you online. They can read the web, watch for events, and take actions on your behalf. It's Agents create and consume events, propagating them along a directed graph. Think of it as a hackable version of IFTTT or Zapier on your own server. You always know who has your data. ...

  • IFTTT
    IFTTT

    It helps you connect all of your different apps and devices. You can enable your apps and devices to work together to do specific things they couldn't do otherwise. ...

  • Integromat
    Integromat

    It is an easy to use, powerful tool with unique features for automating manual processes. Connect your favorite apps, services and devices with each other without having any programming skills. ...

  • Microsoft Power Automate
    Microsoft Power Automate

    Microsoft Power Automate is a cloud-first, comprehensive automation platform, powered by low-code and AI. Modernize business processes, integrate operations at scale, and maintain visibility and control with enterprise-grade governance. ...

  • UiPath Studio
    UiPath Studio

    It encapsulates both simple and complex solutions for application integration and automating third-party applications, administrative IT tasks, and business IT processes. ...

  • Ghost Inspector
    Ghost Inspector

    It lets you create and manage UI tests that check specific functionality in your website or application. We execute these automated browser tests continuously from the cloud and alert you if anything breaks. ...

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Airflow

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A platform to programmaticaly author, schedule and monitor data pipelines, by Airbnb
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PROS OF AIRFLOW
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    Task Dependency Management
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    Beautiful UI
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    Cluster of workers
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    Extensibility
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    Open source
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    Complex workflows
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    Python
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    Good api
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    Apache project
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    Custom operators
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    Dashboard
CONS OF AIRFLOW
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    Observability is not great when the DAGs exceed 250
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    Running it on kubernetes cluster relatively complex
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    Open source - provides minimum or no support
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    Logical separation of DAGs is not straight forward

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I am working on a project that grabs a set of input data from AWS S3, pre-processes and divvies it up, spins up 10K batch containers to process the divvied data in parallel on AWS Batch, post-aggregates the data, and pushes it to S3.

I already have software patterns from other projects for Airflow + Batch but have not dealt with the scaling factors of 10k parallel tasks. Airflow is nice since I can look at which tasks failed and retry a task after debugging. But dealing with that many tasks on one Airflow EC2 instance seems like a barrier. Another option would be to have one task that kicks off the 10k containers and monitors it from there.

I have no experience with AWS Step Functions but have heard it's AWS's Airflow. There looks to be plenty of patterns online for Step Functions + Batch. Do Step Functions seem like a good path to check out for my use case? Do you get the same insights on failing jobs / ability to retry tasks as you do with Airflow?

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I am looking for an open-source scheduler tool with cross-functional application dependencies. Some of the tasks I am looking to schedule are as follows:

  1. Trigger Matillion ETL loads
  2. Trigger Attunity Replication tasks that have downstream ETL loads
  3. Trigger Golden gate Replication Tasks
  4. Shell scripts, wrappers, file watchers
  5. Event-driven schedules

I have used Airflow in the past, and I know we need to create DAGs for each pipeline. I am not familiar with Jenkins, but I know it works with configuration without much underlying code. I want to evaluate both and appreciate any advise

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Zapier

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Automate tasks between other online services (services like Salesforce, Basecamp, Gmail, and 400+ more)
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PROS OF ZAPIER
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    Scheduled tasks
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    Great customer support
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    Integrates with Trello
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    Gives me updates anytime, anywhere
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    Julien DeFrance
    Principal Software Engineer at Tophatter · | 16 upvotes · 3.1M views

    Back in 2014, I was given an opportunity to re-architect SmartZip Analytics platform, and flagship product: SmartTargeting. This is a SaaS software helping real estate professionals keeping up with their prospects and leads in a given neighborhood/territory, finding out (thanks to predictive analytics) who's the most likely to list/sell their home, and running cross-channel marketing automation against them: direct mail, online ads, email... The company also does provide Data APIs to Enterprise customers.

    I had inherited years and years of technical debt and I knew things had to change radically. The first enabler to this was to make use of the cloud and go with AWS, so we would stop re-inventing the wheel, and build around managed/scalable services.

    For the SaaS product, we kept on working with Rails as this was what my team had the most knowledge in. We've however broken up the monolith and decoupled the front-end application from the backend thanks to the use of Rails API so we'd get independently scalable micro-services from now on.

    Our various applications could now be deployed using AWS Elastic Beanstalk so we wouldn't waste any more efforts writing time-consuming Capistrano deployment scripts for instance. Combined with Docker so our application would run within its own container, independently from the underlying host configuration.

    Storage-wise, we went with Amazon S3 and ditched any pre-existing local or network storage people used to deal with in our legacy systems. On the database side: Amazon RDS / MySQL initially. Ultimately migrated to Amazon RDS for Aurora / MySQL when it got released. Once again, here you need a managed service your cloud provider handles for you.

    Future improvements / technology decisions included:

    Caching: Amazon ElastiCache / Memcached CDN: Amazon CloudFront Systems Integration: Segment / Zapier Data-warehousing: Amazon Redshift BI: Amazon Quicksight / Superset Search: Elasticsearch / Amazon Elasticsearch Service / Algolia Monitoring: New Relic

    As our usage grows, patterns changed, and/or our business needs evolved, my role as Engineering Manager then Director of Engineering was also to ensure my team kept on learning and innovating, while delivering on business value.

    One of these innovations was to get ourselves into Serverless : Adopting AWS Lambda was a big step forward. At the time, only available for Node.js (Not Ruby ) but a great way to handle cost efficiency, unpredictable traffic, sudden bursts of traffic... Ultimately you want the whole chain of services involved in a call to be serverless, and that's when we've started leveraging Amazon DynamoDB on these projects so they'd be fully scalable.

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    Is this possible to build using no-code tools? I have read about the possibility of using Webflow with Memberstack, Airtable, and Elfsight through Zapier / Integromat, which may allow for good design and functionality. Is it possible with Bubble or Bildr?

    I have no problems with a bit of a learning curve as long as what I want is possible. Since I have 0 coding experience, I am not sure how to go about it.

    Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

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    Huginn

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        PROS OF IFTTT
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          Lots of integrations
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          Free
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          Automates manual tasks
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          Life automation
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          Internet of things
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          Good User Experiance
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          Mobile Application
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            Is this possible to build using no-code tools? I have read about the possibility of using Webflow with Memberstack, Airtable, and Elfsight through Zapier / Integromat, which may allow for good design and functionality. Is it possible with Bubble or Bildr?

            I have no problems with a bit of a learning curve as long as what I want is possible. Since I have 0 coding experience, I am not sure how to go about it.

            Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

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            Peter Baxter
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            Looking to integrate 3CX with Teamwork to link with Database and show customer details, log calls etc - Can I do this with both Integromat and Tray.io?

            Thanks

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                    Catch website bugs and regressions before they cost you
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                      No code required
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                      Runscope integration
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                      Simple test editor
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                      Screenshot comparison
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                      Videos of every test run
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                      Primarily focus on functional testing
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                      Easy to use API enables remote control
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                      Data-Driven testing
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                      Minimal effort to migrate to another tool like Selenium
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                      Partials and Variables enable fast test creation
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                      30-40 in-parallel tests for cheap
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                      Detailed Documentation
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                      Supports end to end testing with Runscope
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                      Extensive Integrations available
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                      Scheduling tests
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                      Licensed but cheaper compared to other tools
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                      Email notification and Alerts
                    CONS OF GHOST INSPECTOR
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                      Flash Support inside browser
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                      Support Cross-device testing (device, web)

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