24 days ago
I'm running Axum/Svelte/Postgres/sqlx for my personal website.
This is what my database connection logs look like (6 more attempts after this before the container is killed since the healthcheck fails).
It's quite intermittent and always goes 1 of 2 ways: connects immediately (healthcheck succeeds on first try) OR fails since healthcheck never returns 200 OK.
The issue is always the database connection never appearing to resolve.
{
"message": "Database connection failed, retrying...",
"attributes": {
"attempt": 1,
"delay_secs": 1,
"error": "pool timed out while waiting for an open connection",
"level": "warn",
"max_attempts": 10,
"target": "xevion::db",
"timestamp": "2026-01-14T18:28:59.926786936Z"
},
"tags": {
"project": "4f95bcc3-aeda-4bd6-9345-bee985903c94",
"environment": "0efba50e-21aa-41aa-b594-6d532c39ccfd",
"service": "36ae7bd0-8406-42e9-bb51-ba96d9f7261e",
"deployment": "ae911cf1-2afc-48c9-a73a-5155f15e35d7",
"replica": "6110a7fc-efd5-41bc-a87d-bb135f61650d"
},
"timestamp": "2026-01-14T18:28:59.929080955Z"
}16 Replies
24 days ago
Project ID: 4f95bcc3-aeda-4bd6-9345-bee985903c94
24 days ago
Fully open source. Some key files:
Dockerfile:
async fn createpool(databaseurl: &str):
24 days ago
Database is completely fine, and re-deploying will often resolve it. It's just a random roll of the dice whether it works on the first try or not. Which screams race condition, meaning I must be doing something wrong.
24 days ago
I will note I'm on an Alpine image, which I recall once upon a time was problematic with Railway, but I can't find anything on the docs about it 'still' being problematic, so I assume I'm fine there.
24 days ago
Also, why is the edge used from asia? railway/asia-southeast1-eqsg3a??
24 days ago
I set my deployment for US East
24 days ago
It's an anycast network.
24 days ago
I assume the edge being used here has something to do with with my request takes 3.5 seconds

24 days ago
Note that it was fine earlier, so I'm wondering what changed
24 days ago
Are you geographically close to Asia?
24 days ago
Not at all. I live in Texas. I also migrated both database/server services in Railway to US West; but the edge used is still Asia
24 days ago
VPN? Cloudflare?
24 days ago
VPN no, Cloudflare yes
24 days ago
What happens if you disable Cloudflare?
24 days ago
Unsure, because it takes time to propagate. But the generated domain resolves in 370ms via a us-east4 edge.
24 days ago
So then it's the routing between the Cloudflare PoP and our network.