22 days ago
Hey guys. I've been trying out Railway sandboxes and have run into the following problem. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Summary
The Railway Sandbox collection query and dashboard omit recently created
sandboxes, even though those sandboxes still exist and are accessible through
an exact-ID query.
This appears to be a listing/pagination or indexing issue rather than a sandbox
creation failure.
Environment
- Observed: 2026-07-30, approximately 09:03–09:23 UTC
- Railway TypeScript SDK:
railway@3.6.0 - Railway CLI:
5.8.0 - Authentication: project token
- Network isolation:
ISOLATED - Idle timeout: 15 minutes
- All affected sandboxes were subsequently destroyed normally
I can provide the project and environment IDs privately.
Reproduction
Two independent processes created sandboxes in the same Railway environment.
Each process created:
- One sandbox sequentially
- Two additional sandboxes concurrently
Every create request had a unique environment nonce, so the mutations were not
byte-identical.
One affected sandbox was:
ad1b5077-06fd-42d3-a404-fcbfeaf64265
An exact lookup for that ID succeeds and returns:
{
"id": "ad1b5077-06fd-42d3-a404-fcbfeaf64265",
"status": "DESTROYED",
"createdAt": "2026-07-30T09:04:00.391Z"
}However, the same sandbox is absent from the environment's sandboxes
connection.
We tested both:
sandboxes(environmentId: $environmentId, first: 100)and:
sandboxes(environmentId: $environmentId, last: 100)Both returned the same 100 records and the same page information:
{
"hasNextPage": false,
"hasPreviousPage": false,
"startCursor": "059ba302-18c6-4fec-af2d-2f5a763fed57",
"endCursor": "5bd4943e-068c-4625-905d-2c3eb02e4e6b"
}The newest returned record was created at:
2026-07-30T09:03:53.205Z
That is earlier than the omitted sandbox, which was created at:
2026-07-30T09:04:00.391Z
The omitted sandbox also does not appear in the Railway dashboard.
Expected result
One of the following should happen:
-
The newer sandbox appears in the collection; or
-
Pagination reports another page through
hasNextPageorhasPreviousPage.
first and last should not return the same capped page when newer accessible
records exist outside it.
Actual result
The collection returns exactly 100 destroyed sandboxes, omits newer accessible
records, and reports that no additional page exists.
Impact
Sandbox creation and execution work, but the dashboard and collection query
cannot be used for lifecycle history or auditability. It also prevents us
from reliably reconciling run-owned sandboxes against Railway's inventory.
Please let me know if you need any more info on this
1 Replies
Status changed to Awaiting Railway Response Railway • 22 days ago
22 days ago
Sandboxes are a Priority Boarding feature still under active development, and the listing/pagination surface does not yet carry documented guarantees. The behavior you're describing with the sandboxes connection capping at 100 records while newer accessible records fall outside that window is a known gap in the current implementation but we've escalated it up to the team
Status changed to Awaiting User Response Railway • 22 days ago
Status changed to Solved moodymarshmallow • 21 days ago