**Project:** restaurant-rocket (production)  
**Deployment ID:** 39faf3a0  
**Issue:** Container builds successfully but produces zero deploy logs

---

## Problem

After 20+ deployment attempts, Railway deployments consistently show:
- ✅ Build completes successfully
- ❌ **Deploy logs completely empty** (no output)
- ❌ HTTP 502 errors
- ❌ Application not responding

**Critical:** Even a minimal `CMD ["node", "--version"]` produces no deploy logs.

---

## Evidence

### Test 1: Minimal Node Version Test
```dockerfile
FROM node:20
WORKDIR /app
COPY package*.json ./
RUN npm ci
COPY . .
RUN npm run build
ENV NODE_ENV=production
CMD ["node", "--version"]

Result: Build succeeds, deploy logs empty, no output

Test 2: Railway CLI Shell Test

railway shell
node dist/index.js

Result: ✅ App starts successfully, logs appear correctly, all services work

Configuration

Build: Dockerfile (auto-detected)

Region: Southeast Asia (Singapore)

Node: 20

Port: Using process.env.PORT || 5000, binding to 0.0.0.0

Environment Variables: All configured (DATABASE_URL, SESSION_SECRET, etc.)

Start Command:

server.listen(process.env.PORT || 5000, "0.0.0.0", () => {
  console.log(`Server running on port ${PORT}`);
});

What We've Tried

1. ✅ Dockerfile deployment
2. ✅ Nixpacks auto-detection
3. ✅ Verified all environment variables
4. ✅ Dynamic port configuration
5. ✅ Bound to 0.0.0.0
6. ✅ Extensive startup logging
7. ✅ Minimal node --version test
8. ✅ Verified code works in CLI shell
9. ✅ Removed problematic dependencies
10. ✅ Reviewed Railway documentation

Result: Deploy logs remain empty for all tests.

Analysis

| Test | CLI Shell | Deployment |

| --- | --- | --- |

| Build | N/A | ✅ Success |

| node --version | ✅ Would work | ❌ No logs |

| node dist/index.js | ✅ Works | ❌ No logs |

| Environment | ✅ Available | ✅ Available |

| Logging | ✅ Captured | ❌ Not captured |

Conclusion: This is not an application code, build, or configuration issue. The Railway deployment runtime is not capturing container stdout/stderr.

Known Issue

Found similar reports on Railway Help Station:

• Deploys Not Working
• App Down No Logs

Railway has acknowledged this as a known issue affecting multiple users.

Request

Please investigate:

1. Why deploy logs are empty even for node --version
2. Is the container actually starting in production runtime?
3. Is the log aggregator connected to our project/region?
4. Are there resource limits killing containers before logs flush?

Urgency: High - Production application offline for multiple days.

Full diagnostic: docs/RAILWAY-DEPLOYMENT-DIAGNOSTIC.md in GitHub repo: https://github.com/rjk461/Restaurant-Rocket

Contact

Domain: restaurantrocket.app (configured)

Expected Resolution: 24-48 hours given production impact

Thank you for your assistance.