No connection to database, shuts down after every deployment (MongoDB)
kremalicious
PROOP

a month ago

Database for multiple of my projects is now down for almost 7 hours, and counting. Yes, I went through all projects multiple times and redeployed. Contrary to your status page and post mortem, your systems are clearly not working.

UI says that database service and deployment is online, but deploy logs say "Shutting down" and my app service can't connect.

All affected db service logs:

Logs always end with:

Initializing durable catalog

Retrieving all idents from storage engine

Initializing all collections in durable catalog

For customers running the current memory allocator, we suggest changing the contents of the following sysfsFile

We suggest setting the contents of sysfsFile to 0.

vm.max_map_count is too low

We suggest setting swappiness to 0 or 1, as swapping can cause performance problems.

Shutdown: Closing listener sockets

Shutting down the WaitForMajorityService

Wrong mongod version

Stepping down the ReplicationCoordinator for shutdown

Attempting to enter quiesce mode

Shutting down the FLE Crud thread pool

Shutting down the MirrorMaestro

Killing all operations for shutdown

...

shutdown: removing fs lock...

Dropping the scope cache for shutdown

Shutting down the standalone executor

Now exiting

mongod shutdown complete

Shutting down

Solved

20 Replies

Anonymous
PRO

a month ago

I'm having the same issue with Postgres across several of my projects. I've already followed the instructions, but the error persists. I'm going crazy her


haraouf
PRO

a month ago

I have the same exact issue


kremalicious
PROOP

a month ago

any news? My app is down for 9 hours now with no support answer. You guys posted all resolved messages and a post mortem, but for me no problems which started with your recent incident are resolved


kremalicious

any news? My app is down for 9 hours now with no support answer. You guys posted all resolved messages and a post mortem, but for me no problems which started with your recent incident are resolved

haraouf
PRO

a month ago

I tried now to restart the service then redeploy it and the app was back online


haraouf

I tried now to restart the service then redeploy it and the app was back online

kremalicious
PROOP

a month ago

I am trying this every hour for the last 3 hours. Nothing works.


talosdeus
HOBBY

a month ago

I seem to be having the opposite issue. My new services are not sleeping. And there's one service that is standalone with no DB. It's been an hour and not sleeping.


kremalicious

I am trying this every hour for the last 3 hours. Nothing works.

talosdeus
HOBBY

a month ago

Try CLI, new commit etc.


talosdeus

Try CLI, new commit etc.

kremalicious
PROOP

a month ago

It's a database service so it comes from Docker hub, already tried multiple different tags. Issue persists. Really need somebody from Railway team to actually check out the logs I linked to.


bigbox77
PRO

a month ago

So they are saying it is fixed on X but it is not actually fixed internally? Only experiencing the issue on one of my projects but conveniently it is the most important


bigbox77

So they are saying it is fixed on X but it is not actually fixed internally? Only experiencing the issue on one of my projects but conveniently it is the most important

kremalicious
PROOP

a month ago

yup, they keep telling everybody it is fixed and already published post mortem despite multiple customer threads posting the various db container connection issues


kremalicious

It's a database service so it comes from Docker hub, already tried multiple different tags. Issue persists. Really need somebody from Railway team to actually check out the logs I linked to.

talosdeus
HOBBY

a month ago

Btw I checked my old project and my site is running when I navigate and my mongodb connection is working (I see the network packets flowing), but both my services are sleeping in the UI, not possible since my website is working fine. Seems like they have an internal UI issue going on.


talosdeus

Btw I checked my old project and my site is running when I navigate and my mongodb connection is working (I see the network packets flowing), but both my services are sleeping in the UI, not possible since my website is working fine. Seems like they have an internal UI issue going on.

kremalicious
PROOP

a month ago

for me it's other way around as I posted, UI for db service says all online but logs clearly say it is shut down


kremalicious

for me it's other way around as I posted, UI for db service says all online but logs clearly say it is shut down

talosdeus
HOBBY

a month ago

Oh interesting. It seems like there's an issue in both UI logic and their backend logic. Wonderful.


godcomplex23
PRO

a month ago

I'M HAVING THE SAME PROBLEM! Nothing works, i've tried everything


a month ago

Hello all,

We had an incident earlier that caused some running workloads to be unexpectedly terminated while the status in the UI didn't properly update. This has since been resolved, but in some cases, you may need to redeploy your services.

You can find the post-mortem for the incident here: https://blog.railway.com/p/incident-report-february-11-2026

Our deepest apologies for the inconvenience this has caused.


Status changed to Awaiting User Response Railway about 1 month ago


brody

Hello all,We had an incident earlier that caused some running workloads to be unexpectedly terminated while the status in the UI didn't properly update. This has since been resolved, but in some cases, you may need to redeploy your services.You can find the post-mortem for the incident here: https://blog.railway.com/p/incident-report-february-11-2026Our deepest apologies for the inconvenience this has caused.

kremalicious
PROOP

a month ago

Quoting myself, did you actually read what I wrote?

Yes, I went through all projects multiple times and redeployed. Contrary to your status page and post mortem, your systems are clearly not working.


Status changed to Awaiting Railway Response Railway about 1 month ago


brody

Hello all,We had an incident earlier that caused some running workloads to be unexpectedly terminated while the status in the UI didn't properly update. This has since been resolved, but in some cases, you may need to redeploy your services.You can find the post-mortem for the incident here: https://blog.railway.com/p/incident-report-february-11-2026Our deepest apologies for the inconvenience this has caused.

bigbox77
PRO

a month ago

Is it fixed tho lmao that is what everyone wants to know.......


chandrika
EMPLOYEE

a month ago

Hey folks, we're very sorry for the inconvenience. To answer the questions re: is it fixed? Yes, the underlying incident was resolved at the cadence described in the post mortem but in some cases, restarts were needed for certain services.

One quick note, if you have a DB and a service that relies on it and the set is failing, could you please try deploy the DB, ensure it's online and then try the service that relies on it?

re: the OP here, kremalicious, could you take a look at your mongod version? I'm seeing some logs mentioning:Wrong mongod version "UPGRADE PROBLEM: Found an invalid featureCompatibilityVersion... which might be preventing Mongo from coming up.


Status changed to Awaiting User Response Railway about 1 month ago


chandrika

Hey folks, we're very sorry for the inconvenience. To answer the questions re: is it fixed? Yes, the underlying incident was resolved at the cadence described in the post mortem but in some cases, restarts were needed for certain services.One quick note, if you have a DB and a service that relies on it and the set is failing, could you please try deploy the DB, ensure it's online and then try the service that relies on it? re: the OP here, kremalicious, could you take a look at your mongod version? I'm seeing some logs mentioning:Wrong mongod version "UPGRADE PROBLEM: Found an invalid featureCompatibilityVersion... which might be preventing Mongo from coming up.

kremalicious
PROOP

a month ago

Thanks for the answer. That mongod log also seemed important to me but not sure what I’m supposed to do, I use the standard mongodb service template provided by railway, already tried with some different Docker tags like 8, 8.20, latest. But all show the same error logs and shut down


Status changed to Awaiting Railway Response Railway about 1 month ago


a month ago

Hello,

Looks like you were trying to deploy the wrong version of Mongo. I have deployed 8.0.10, and they are both online and running now.


Status changed to Awaiting User Response Railway about 1 month ago


Railway
BOT

25 days 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 25 days ago


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