Monitor Ethereum Gas And DeFi

Ethereum Gas Fee And DeFi Network Health Tracker

What It Does

This workflow checks Ethereum gas fees, network congestion, and ETH price every 4 hours and delivers a structured Telegram message with a clear signal: good time to transact or wait. It also surfaces the top 3 DeFi protocols by Total Value Locked with current yields.

Why It Matters

Every active DeFi user has paid too much in gas fees at least once. During periods of high congestion, a swap can cost multiple times the standard rate in gas alone. Without a monitoring system, you either check manually every few hours or get caught paying a premium. This workflow eliminates that guesswork, sending you a proactive alert every 4 hours so you can time swaps, yield deposits, and protocol interactions when gas is genuinely low.

How It Works

1. Scheduled Trigger: Fires every 4 hours.
2. AI Agent: Browses the web to fetch current ETH to USD price, slow, standard, and fast gas values in Gwei, network congestion status, and top 3 DeFi protocol TVL with current APY figures.
3. Telegram: Delivers a plain text structured message to your bot with a clear gas classification and a recommendation to transact now or wait.

What You Get

Who It Is For

1. DeFi users who perform swaps, liquidity deposits, or protocol interactions regularly.
2. Crypto investors who hold ETH and want network health context alongside price.
3. Developers building on Ethereum who need to time contract deployments cost effectively.
4. Anyone who has ever paid too much in gas fees because they did not check first.

Setup

1. Connect your Telegram bot and authorize the connector.
2. Submit the workflow to your catalog.
3. Enjoy automatic gas and DeFi health updates every 4 hours.

Customize It

1. Change the chat ID variable to send alerts to a different Telegram user or group.
2. Add a specific DeFi protocol you care about to the AI Agent prompt.
3. Adjust the frequency from every 4 hours to every 2 hours for higher frequency monitoring.

Timezone Note

The workflow trigger runs on UTC. The 4 hour cycle fires at 00:00, 04:00, 08:00, 12:00, 16:00, 20:00 UTC. Adjust the schedule expression if you want it aligned to a specific timezone window.

Built By

Shamanth Kumar M: Staff Technical Program Manager with 14 plus years in engineering delivery. Building intelligent automation systems that replace manual work.