All HTTP requests taking 12-16s — asia-southeast1 edge routing issue
fufulove168
HOBBYOP

17 days ago

Related ongoing thread:

https://station.railway.com/support/intermittent-12-16s-ttfb-on-our-raily-[ID]

Project: ai agent dashboard
Service: @aiagent/api
Public domain: aiagentapi-production.up.railway.app
Region: asia-southeast1 (Singapore)
Plan: Hobby (Free)
Location: Taipei, Taiwan

SYMPTOM
All HTTP requests to my service consistently take 12-16 seconds. 
Problem started after deployment on 2026-04-25. Before this, latency 
was normal (~300ms).

Latency test (5 consecutive requests to /api/products):
- Request 1: 12.35s
- Request 2: 12.20s
- Request 3: 15.21s
- Request 4: 12.21s
- Request 5: 12.23s

The 12-second floor is extremely stable, which suggests a timeout 
or connection retry in the edge layer rather than variable network 
congestion.

EVIDENCE THIS IS NOT AN APPLICATION ISSUE
1. psql direct connection to my Postgres (same project, same region) 
   completes in 0.7s — DB is healthy
2. Non-existent 404 routes take 12s — requests never reach my app
3. /api/auth/login (which does NOT hit DB) also takes 12s
4. Application logs show NestJS started cleanly, all routes mapped, 
   no errors or warnings
5. CPU/memory well within Hobby plan limits
6. Nothing changed in global middleware or CORS config in this deploy 
   (git log confirms main.ts unchanged since scaffolding)

RESPONSE HEADERS (sample request)
- X-Railway-Request-Id: mY-z_ISKTiWOzthLacI7Nw
- x-railway-cdn-edge: fastly/cache-nrt-rjaa8190038-NRT  (Tokyo Fastly)
- x-railway-edge: railway/asia-southeast1-eqsg3a         (Singapore Metal)

QUESTION
Why is my request path going through Fastly Tokyo (NRT) before 
reaching Singapore Metal edge? Is there a misrouting at the CDN layer?

This pattern appears similar to previously reported APAC edge 
routing issues:
- https://station.railway.com/questions/metal-high-latency-singapore-b7548849
- https://station.railway.com/questions/server-latency-and-slow-response-times-991479b8

Could the Railway team investigate edge routing for my domain?

Thanks.
Solved

14 Replies

Status changed to Awaiting Railway Response Railway 17 days ago


harrythomson1
HOBBY

17 days ago

+1 also having the same issues.

Currently on a hobby plan. Located in Vietnam.

Have deployed via Singapore and US West and still get the same data points.

Tested on a simple health endpoint and all requests are taking 12 seconds minimum.


recoyang
PRO

17 days ago

Same issue here, I'm in pro plan.


jonasobroberg-arch
HOBBY

17 days ago

I have the same problem and also tried to deploy via different regions. Same everywhere. Awaiting Railway response.


anhbaysgalan1
PRO

17 days ago

+1


skyfreeindia
PRO

17 days ago

Yes same issue, +1


rhaoio
HOBBY

17 days ago

same!


lightshire
PRO

17 days ago

i have been debuggin for the past 20 minutes, it looks like its really a railway issue


ahmadijmail
PRO

17 days ago

Same here!


kevindavee
HOBBY

17 days ago

Same here. Is it happening on ap-southeast1 only?


kevindavee

Same here. Is it happening on ap-southeast1 only?

jonasobroberg-arch
HOBBY

17 days ago

No, it's on all regions.


boonyao1122
PRO

17 days ago

Oh no, there’s still no update from the Railway team. Do they only respond during their working hours? they dont check message during off day?


watchymovie
HOBBY

17 days ago

{"status":"error","code":404,"message":"Application not found","request_id":"87unZzMsRWCH0IveoB_USg"}DNS: 0.070761s

Connect: 0.110846s

TTFB: 12.298104s

Total: 12.298337s

same here


jonasobroberg-arch
HOBBY

17 days ago

Now it seems to work again.


17 days ago

This has now been resolved.

The latency was caused by an issue with our CDN provider Fastly, specifically affecting their KV store in the Asia region. Their incident report: https://www.fastlystatus.com/incident/378503

Apologies for the disruption.


Status changed to Awaiting User Response Railway 17 days ago


Railway
BOT

9 days ago

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Status changed to Solved Railway 9 days ago


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