3 months ago
Hi Railway team,
I’m experiencing an issue where cron jobs stop running after several successful executions when using GitHub Services.
The cron is configured to run every 10 minutes, and initially works as expected. However, after a few runs, it completely stops triggering. Below is a sample of the last successful executions:
Recent Executions
12/9/25 – 1:00 PM - 8s (51m)
12/9/25 – 12:50 PM - 5s (1h)
12/9/25 – 12:40 PM - 5s (1h)
12/9/25 – 12:35 PM - 8s (1h)After the 1:00 PM execution, no further cron jobs are triggered.
When I try to manually trigger the cron, I get the following error:
Failed to invoke cron execution
We were unable to start your cron execution. If this error persists, please contact support.
I’ve already reviewed similar reports on Station that seem related:
https://station.railway.com/questions/cron-job-not-running-7b40b4e9
https://station.railway.com/questions/cronjobs-sometimes-do-not-run-at-all-ae826593
This appears to be the same or a closely related issue.
Could you please investigate or let me know if there are any platform-level limitations, known incidents, or configuration changes required?
Thanks in advance for your help.
7 Replies
3 months ago
Heya, we've been tracking some issues around CRONs when using Config as Code.
From the staged changes history, it looks like that's what you were using when experiencing the issue. I've attached the related ticket which our team is still working on.
For now, I can only recommend keeping config as code off for the CRON. Note, you can still use CaC for most fields - if the CRON schedule is defined from the dashboard, you should be fine.
Apologies for the impact this has caused on your workflows ~ updates will be pushed to this thread automatically.
Best,
Nico
Status changed to Awaiting User Response Railway • 3 months ago
3 months ago
Hello!
We're acknowledging your issue and attaching a ticket to this thread.
We don't have an ETA for it, but, our engineering team will take a look and you will be updated as we update the ticket.
Please reply to this thread if you have any questions!
3 months ago
This thread has been marked as solved automatically due to a lack of recent activity. Please re-open this thread or create a new one if you require further assistance. Thank you!
Status changed to Solved Railway • 3 months ago
3 months ago
🛠️ The ticket Scheduled Tasks Issue has been marked as backlog.
Status changed to Awaiting Railway Response Railway • 3 months ago
3 months ago
Hey Olivier! Looked around internally and I think this should be sorted. Can you verify, are you still having the same problem?
Status changed to Awaiting User Response Railway • 3 months ago
3 months ago
Perfect everything looks good, thanks 
Status changed to Awaiting Railway Response Railway • 3 months ago
Status changed to Solved chandrika • 3 months ago
3 months ago
✅ The ticket Scheduled Tasks Issue has been marked as completed.