Some extra information: the service GUIs in the project canvas does show that they have cron schedule! It just hasn't been executing…

Hey, can you share both of the service links? And would you be able to re-create the service or manually set a schedule on both services (just a troubleshooting step to help us understand what's going on)?

https://railway.com/project/675c7104-52e7-4685-9806-2b3cbd0a9af7/service/84dc4d1a-0cea-44e8-893c-eeacbe4342fe?environmentId=c97f7f74-c93e-4e77-9969-da2eda47fec0

https://railway.com/project/675c7104-52e7-4685-9806-2b3cbd0a9af7/service/4cd47f68-3441-4eca-8af7-3815900cadc8?environmentId=c97f7f74-c93e-4e77-9969-da2eda47fec0

The cron schedule is set in railway.json, so I can't manually change it

Could you maybe remove the railway.json? 🙏

For sure

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SHould I manually change the cron schedule to something new?

I would suggest using the custom option and then typing the same as your railway.json one.

I just selected hourly

Weirdly enough I was able to set one via railway.json

Well, it wouldnt even execute by the manual trigger yesterday but I was just able to execute it manually so that's positive (Y)

Were you getting errors when trying it?

Yesterday it errored out when trying to execute manually

Can you try redeploying actually?

And then tell me if excecuting manually works

The UI was displaying that I had correctly set the cron schedule with railway.json all this time, even though it hadn't been executing since December 4th

Sure

Oh that's good to know, i'll let Jared take over then

Just redeployed both services

thanks Thalles!

The redeploys were successful, manual trigger worked!

Great! It will start running as it normally would then. Sorry about that!

Maybe try with the railway.json again?

Quick question for clarity - if I configure the root directory for a service, will it apply a railway.json file at the root of that subdirectory?

That would be very desirable if it did. It does that for Dockerfiles at the root. I wish it would do that for config as code too

I think Dockerfiles and railway.json resolve the same but I'm not 100% certain off the top of my head

In the past I've seen mixed signals about this. I've seen in docs somewhere that a service's root directory won't pick up a railway.json file, but it was working nicely for almost a month before whatever update was rolled out on December 4th

This particular issue with the schedule going away was unrelated to how the railway.json resolves. We only resolve it once when your application builds, then we read it where necessary. Unfortunately something occurred which caused some schedules configured via the railway.json to get dropped, but that has been fixed.

Got it. Thanks for your help!