17 days ago
Hi Support Team,
I’m encountering a persistent issue where my n8n instance repeatedly crashes due to Redis connection timeouts.
n8n starts successfully, but shortly after startup it fails to connect to Redis, retries for 10 seconds, and then exits the process. This causes a crash loop and prevents n8n from staying online.
Observed Behavior:
n8n starts normally
Task Broker initializes
Redis connection attempts fail with
ETIMEDOUTn8n retries for 10 seconds
Process exits due to Redis connection error
Session restarts and crashes again
Relevant Logs:
2026-02-21T00:51:20.147Z [inf] n8n Task Broker ready on 127.0.0.1, port 5679
2026-02-21T00:51:22.016Z [inf] [Redis client] connect ETIMEDOUT
2026-02-21T00:51:23.099Z [inf] Lost Redis connection. Trying to reconnect in 1s... (0s/10s)
2026-02-21T00:51:32.537Z [inf] Unable to connect to Redis after trying to connect for 10s
2026-02-21T00:51:32.537Z [inf] Exiting process due to Redis connection error
2026-02-21T00:51:36.648Z [inf] Last session crashed
This pattern repeats continuously.
7 Replies
angelo-railway
I have fixed this, this was due to our outage here https://blog.railway.com/p/incident-report-february-11-2026 - I restarted Redis and restored your N8N.
17 days ago
Same issue. Need help asap. Thank you
0x5b62656e5d
Are you still experiencing this issue?
15 days ago
I am still experiencing the issue
Status changed to Open brody • 15 days ago
15 days ago
Its online but it says The database deployment has stopped running.
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Is your Redis online and running?
15 days ago
online but not running
15 days ago
Try redeploying your Redis database, then your n8n workers if Redis starts successfully. This may be related to the following incident: https://blog.railway.com/p/incident-report-february-11-2026