diff --git a/.github/workflows/import.yaml b/.github/workflows/import.yaml
index 2f32d1081d20c..4efa2b3598533 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/import.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/import.yaml
@@ -347,6 +347,51 @@ jobs:
         commit_message: import WorkflowHub data
         branch: workflowhub-import-branch
         create_branch: true
+  notify:
+    # Runs whatever the importers did: a failure opens or updates the tracking
+    # issue for that resource, and a success closes it again. Parallel to
+    # merge-imports, so it neither delays nor depends on the merge.
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    needs:
+      - biotools
+      - openebench
+      - bioconda
+      - biii
+      - biocontainers
+      - galaxytool
+      - debian-med
+      - bioconductor
+      - workflowhub
+    if: always()
+    permissions:
+      # A job-level permissions map sets every scope it does not mention to
+      # none, so each one the action needs is spelled out:
+      #   issues   reading, opening, commenting on and closing the tracking
+      #            issue, and creating its label
+      #   actions  listing this workflow's runs, to tell whether a newer one
+      #            has started. Without it that check is refused; the action
+      #            carries on and says so in the job summary, but the
+      #            stale-run guard is gone.
+      # `contents` is not needed: there is no checkout, since the action
+      # brings its own script.
+      issues: write
+      actions: read
+    concurrency:
+      # find-then-create is not atomic across runners, so serialise the
+      # notifier: a manual dispatch overlapping the schedule would otherwise
+      # let two runs open duplicate issues for the same outage.
+      group: notify-upstream-failures
+      cancel-in-progress: false
+    steps:
+      - name: report importer outcomes
+        uses: research-software-ecosystem/utils/notify-upstream-failures@main
+        with:
+          repo-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+          # The keys are this job's `needs`, which the action matches against
+          # its table of upstream resources. A job missing from that table is
+          # reported as unprobed rather than passing unnoticed.
+          job-results: ${{ toJSON(needs) }}
+          workflow-file: import.yaml
   merge-imports:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     needs: