Hey there Nikolay,

While I raise the issue with the Railway team, would it be possible for you to switch to using the private network? GCP controls our public proxy and we have reported issues with connection consistency on the public network.

Thanks,
Angelo

I can, because i have never done it, i do not know what may be affected, i have many services seating on this DB. Do i need to do something else other then clicking on "Enable private networking" button?

You enable it then use the Private Networking URL, in this case it's `MONGO_PRIVATE_URL" nothing should change except the packet reliability.

I'm having the same problem. I'm new to Railway so I'm not sure what to do. When I click on the "Data" tab in the MongoDB service, I get the error: "We are unable to connect to the database over the public network". In my MongoDB settings and in my Node service settings, there is a green check next to the Private Networking option. This was working but I don't know when the error started because I was learning how to use Railway and trying things out. I tried deleting the MongoDB service and re-deploying it but I got the same error, out of the box.

Hey there,

After talking to the product team, I have confirmed it was the case that we did disable the "Data" tab for now. However, connections to your Mongo instance should still work nomially.

We are working to restore functionality.

Thanks,
Angelo

thanks for the update. As a new customer for Railway this is a little discouraging to have a feature abruptly disabled without a notice. Does this type of thing happen often without notice? Also, is there another GUI I can use for managing the MongoDB database?

Only in very rare cases, this is one of those rare cases.

We recommend: https://www.mongodb.com/products/tools/compass in the meantime.

thanks for the update. As a new customer for Railway this is a little discouraging to have a feature abruptly disabled without a notice. Does this type of thing happen often without notice? Also, is there another GUI I can use for managing the MongoDB database?

I am with these guys for a while and can confirm that they have some issues ones in a while but simplicity of their platform for pretty complex setups outweighs rare events.

Docker compose is only the feature that I personally missing

I'm up and running on Compass now. I don't like having to use a third party though.

I'm up and running on Compass now. I don't like having to use a third party though.

Compass is not third party, it is Mongo own tool, just a bit more clogged user experience compare to railway interface, but because it has more features you'll need it in your mongo journey.

Cool- I am going to leave this thread open until our engineer re-enables the native panel (in progress) but good that you are unblocked!

Hello all!

We are sorry for the inconvenience this has caused but I am happy to announce that the data tab for the Mongo databases has been re-enabled!

thanks! It's working again.

I have a question about Railway's implementation of MongoDB. Does the instance of MongoDB reside within the Railway ecosystem or does the service create an instance over at Atlas? Or Something else?

Railway just deploys a MongoDB container onto your project, from the Dockerhub farms.