Allow SSH access to containers via CLI

I have a project that works in my local environment but not once pushed to Railway. If I could login to the container like I can locally, I could determine what the differences are that are causing the problem. Add a function like the "connect" command in the CLI to connect to the actual container.

Feedback: Railway Metal

Hi folks!Today we're entering the next phase of launching Railway Metal.We have begun upgrading more services on Railway to use Railway Metal from January 1st, 2025 onward, and we will continue doing so according to our timeline.Railway Metal unlocks a whole host of new benefits for you. It is built on hardware that we own and operate in data centers around the world. For more information, please refer to our documentation on Railway Metal...and if you’re curious how we built it, check out our blog post So You Want to Build Your Own Data Center.Please leave any feedback or issues you run into with Railway Metal here!

High Availability PostgreSQL

We're making it easy to upgrade a standalone PostgreSQL database to a highly available cluster with automatic failover — and just as easy to roll back if you need to. Today, going from a single Postgres instance to an HA setup means a painful migration. We're adding a one-click conversion that handles the upgrade for you, automatically updates your connection strings to point to the right place, and gives you a clean cluster management view so you can see the health of your replicas without getting lost in the details. This is the foundation for HA support across more database types in the future. What does your ideal HA database experience look like? Let us know in the comments!

Feedback: Railpack

Today we are pleased to finally release our new builder into Beta - Railpack - https://railpack.com‌‌Built to replace Nixpacks, but with none of the downsides, it's everything we originally hoped Nixpacks would be and so much more -- First-class support for SPA apps (Vite, Astro, CRA, Angular)- Better caching, faster, more efficient builds, and smaller image sizes - 38% (Node) and 77% (Python)- Unlike Nixpacks, updates to Railpack itself are not needed to support the latest version of anything, this means the latest version of bun is always available- Railpack will cache the last working versions for a deployment and use it for future deployments so updates to Railpack defaults won't break deploys- Better verbosity with the build plan, we now tell you the exact versions of the language, and where the version was retrieved from- We now use mise for package resolution and installation, Nix is not used anymore, it's just not a good fit for the needs of a buildpack- Built-in language-specific help outputs for common errors such as "No start command was found" - we now tell you exactly what to do‌‌It is still in Beta so there are some things to keep in mind -- There is no Nixpacks compatibility layer, if you had a custom Nixpacks plan, then it would essentially be ignored by a Railpack build- We don't yet have language parity with Nixpacks, only Node, Python, Go, PHP, Java, Deno, and Staticfiles are supported at this time- There is no way to specify Nix packages to install during build, and there likely never will be- The Railpack documentation is still a work in progress, but it's built with Astro and starlight for the curious- We are switching from Rust to Go to have better interoperability with buildkit, which gives us better control over the build, no more intermediate Dockerfiles- We have a railpack.jsonconfig file - But the syntax is yet to be finalized‌‌If your language is supported and you are eager to try it out, you can switch to the new builder from within your service settings under the build section.And be sure to read up on the documentation we have so far so you're caught up on anything I haven't mentioned here!

Introducing Railway's new edge proxy

Hey all! We're introducing a new edge proxy that we've built from the ground-up. Our new proxy is designed specifically for Railway workloads and engineered to be more performant, reliable, and extensible than our current proxy. ## What's a edge proxy? When your users visit your domain, the request is first routed to Railway's edge proxy before it reaches your app's underlying server. All inbound traffic to your Railway-hosted application is routed through this proxy. ## What's changing? We are replacing our current proxy with our custom-built proxy. This change is designed to be seamless and will not require any action on your part, but you may start taking advantage of it today. We've added a new service setting that allows you to opt-in to new proxy. This setting is available to all users, and you can enable it at any time:  Enabling this toggle will upgrade your service to use new proxy automatically. There will be no downtime for your users when you enable the new proxy. The upgrade process is designed to cut traffic over to our new proxy seamlessly, but it may take up to a minute for it to take effect. The new proxy has several key benefits over our current proxy: - **Near-instant deploy cutovers**: Adding a new domain to your service currently takes up to a minute before it's provisioned. Pushing a new deployment may take a few seconds before we start routing traffic to it. With our new proxy, this is near-instant - your new domain is ready to go as soon as you add it, and your new deployment is live as soon as it's ready. - **Improved Error Pages**: The new proxy comes with new error pages that allows us to debug and resolve issues faster on our end. When a network error occurs, the error page will display a traceable Request ID that you can forward to us for faster resolution. This new proxy helps us unlock features such as [exposing multiple PORTs](https://help.railway.app/feedback/expose-multiple-ports-9c904897), automatic/magic PORT detection, network logs and metrics, advanced routing rules / load balancing algorithms, and more. In the near future, the new proxy will be the default proxy for all new domains created on Railway. We will also automatically upgrade all existing domains on Railway to run on the new proxy. No action is required on your part, and this will not cause any downtime. We'll announce and communicate the timeline of this in advance once we've determined that the new proxy is stable enough for general availability. ## Need help? The new proxy is currently in beta. While we've tested it extensively, there may be edge cases that we haven't accounted for. If you run into any issues, please report them here 👇

Official Railway MCP server

We're working on an official MCP (Model Context Protocol) server for Railway. We’d love to hear what workflows and features you'd like to see. You can share your wishlist in this post ↓(Also using this ticket to track tool calling requests for Railway CLI, I see you vibe-coders!)

Observability Dashboard

Hey y'all,Today, we're launching the GA of our new Observability Dashboard!You can get access by enabling the feature flag under your account settings. Once enabled, visit any of your projects and click the "Observability" button in the all-new navigation bar.You can start with either a default dashboard or create your own from scratch. At the moment, we have 3 types of items you can add:Resource MetricsYou can view resource (CPU, Memory, Network, Disk) usage metrics across services at the same time.Example of disk usage metrics for all volumes in a projectLogsYou can create an item with your own custom log filter. The filter query language is the same as on the Log Explorer page.Example of a log item for viewing error logs for all services in a projectProject UsageYou can view a breakdown of resource usage across the current billing period. It gives you an overview of your costs and can be customized down to each property.Example of a full-fledged Project Usage itemWe'd love for you to try the feature and give us your feedback. Let us know what you like, what you don't like, and what else you'd like to see. Feel free to share your dashboards in here as well!

New Runtime V2 + Magic Port Detection

Hello all,The Railway team has been hard at work delivering foundational platform improvements to everyone on the platform. Astute users have noticed a new dropdown on the settings page dubbed: RuntimeRailway tends not to concern our users with implementation details, however, in the interest of transparency, we will explain our new Runtime V2 and what we plan for this feature for you and your workloads.Railway's container runtime had limitations in the past where Private Networking will take 3 seconds to initialize.This is inconvenient for those who expect to connect and communicate with services that are one the same private network.The new runtime fixes that and brings general improvements to your workloads, one major improvement is magic ports. In the past, setting a $PORT variable was the only way to expose your workloads.We now have a chance to rectify that.Runtime V2 aims to become the default at the latest by Aug 31st, of which, we will remove this option.This thread will keep track of feedback and updates as we undergo the rollout.

Feedback: Railway Functions

As part of Launch Week 02, we have shipped Railway FunctionsWrite and deploy code from the Railway canvas without managing infrastructure or creating a git repository. Functions are Services that run a single file of TypeScript code using the Bun runtime. Use them like any other Service, but without the overhead of a repository.To make a Function Service, click New Service on the canvas and then click "Function" - you will then see the editor.They are ideal for small tasks like handling webhooks, cron jobs, or simple APIs. (Or larger ones like cleaning data.)This is a feedback thread to keep track of asks about this feature. Some known caveats:You can't railway up your function file1 file per functionMax file size of 96KBRoast 'em

Metrics per Replica

Right now, we show total metrics across service replicas.Users will be able able to view metrics per replica.

Service Groups

The ability to drag and drop services on the canvas and group them visually

Custom Usage Email Notifications

Get an alert/email when the resource costs will go over a user defined amount.

Service limits

Ability to limit a service to a max number of CPUs or amount of RAM used.

Template Composer

*This post is part of Railway's 2024 product roadmap kickoff, the Railway team spends the first week every three months sharing our thought process and concepts of what we plan to build.* Project cheerleader: Melissa Hale Ever since we did the Template Bounty program in June. We now have 500+ Templates and counting on the platform. However, users have noted that: - Templates become stale quickly - They don't quickly adopt the new features that are shipped that help templates (meta) - Creating new templates still isn't as fun as it could be We are thinking about having the concept of having the canvas on Railway allow users to build and specify new templates where users/companies on the platform can build and distribute updates to their templates the same way they do with projects on Railway. As with everything, we want your thoughts- is this something you'd like to see? What's stopping you from shipping a template? Whats painful?

Increase Max HTTP Timeout Beyond 5 Minutes

Railway by default has a maximum limit of 5 minutes for all HTTP communication. (Longer for Websockets)This is a feature request ticket for those who would like configurable timeouts for all requests beyond 5 minutes.

Static Outbound IPs on Metal

Enable static outbound IPs on Metal

Single Sign On (SSO)

SSO

Staged Changes

Staged changes allow you to make a bunch of changes to your environment, review the changes, and then deploy them all at once. This removes the annoying toast that keeps letting you know a redeploy will happen. It is available to anyone by enabling the [feature flag](https://railway.app/account/feature-flags) As part of this feature - There is a new settings page - All changes to a service are scoped to the current environment - You can see all the changes that were _committed_ in the activity feed - You can _import_ services from other environments [View the docs](https://docs.railway.app/guides/environments#staged-changes) Here are some screenshots    Staged changes also lays the groundwork for many other environment-based changes that we will soon be making. Please let us know if you have any feedback or suggestions!

Org level audit logs

Requested by the folks at Sepirak.comThey'd like to have org level audit logging to see what everyone's done in the projectWe currently only have project level

APAC region for Bucket storage

As the title says, railway buckets supports only region shown in screenshot.. we need APAC region as well :D

[RBAC] Granular project level permissions

Allow a company to let their employees make PR Envs, but make final merge the decision of the admin. Example:A contractor should only be allowed to make a PR environment, but a full-time employee should be only able to deploy to production.

Google Auth

You can now login with your Google account on Railway.

Central Station Community Bounty Cash Payouts

We plan to make all bounty winnings available as cash payouts!Our top contributors work super hard to help our community and we have very thankful for their presence in our community. However, you have a limit to your Railway bill and can only earn so many Railway credits that you can realistically use towards this.We want to encourage great answers and folks who help others out, that’s why we plan to make bounty winnings available to be withdrawn as cash.

Filter http logs by request duration

Ability to in the logs UI of a project filter by request duration alongside the usual items.

HTTP Logs

You can now see HTTP status code logs for requests on the deployment details page, including response time and the path and method used.

Resource Limits feedback

This week we rolled out resource limits, which provides a new way to control costs and prevent unexpected bills.We'd love your feedback on this feature!Please let us know if you run into any issues or if you have any suggestions for making this feature even more useful.

 👥 Connect Github to multiple accounts

Previously, if you signed up for Railway using your GitHub account, you were locked into using only that account and couldn't link your GitHub to any other Railway accounts.Unfortunately this created a major inconvenience — if you wanted to bring Railway to work (BTW you can get paid for it), you couldn’t connect your GitHub account to your work-related Railway account. Fortunately, that limitation is now lifted. You can now connect your GitHub account to multiple Railway accounts.Here's how it works: the Railway account you initially sign up with via GitHub will retain GitHub as the primary login method. Any other Railway accounts that you connect your GitHub to will not use GitHub for login but they can access GitHub-related content (like repositories) where authorized.

When deploying a template, allow selecting between workspaces

I have multiple workspaces – personal (called devtwo here), work – and I want to deploy a template to a project in my "work" workspace. But I need to go to dashboard, select a different project, then come back and deploy project. Would be really cool to be able to select workspace here right away.

Enabling complete Custom Domain registration through Public API

The current public API routes enable a client to create a Custom Domain on a service, however there is no way to get the necessary CNAME record value to be created, unless you consult the dashboard.Without having this value returned from the Public API, the customDomainCreate function loses a lot of it's potential.My feature request is to have this value returned by the mutate customDomainCreate or a subsequent query.

Configurable Monitoring Alerts in Observability Panel (Beta)

We’ve added configurable monitoring alerts to the Observability panel in the dashboard.To start, monitors will send you an email when a threshold is reached.These alerting thresholds are configurable above or below specified limits for:CPURAMDisk usageNetwork egressMonitors are very easy to set up. They look like this.Since you can set alerts to trigger above or below thresholds, there are a lot of different use cases. You might set alerts above a threshold on RAM to avoid surprise bills from a memory leak. Or you might set alerts below a certain CPU threshold to detect that your application has crashed.If you don’t know where to start, try setting a monitor on Network Egress, which is by far the most common cause of unintended cost overruns for most users. (Remember to always use Private Networking, people!)We hope you like the direction we’re heading here. It makes us sad every time we read about another victim of some obscure pricing accident when using a hyperscale cloud. We’re trying to do the opposite of what they do and make it extraordinarily easy to control your costs under the belief that if we do right by you we’ll win your business over time.Enjoy!

Railway User Hackathon - Up to $1000 cash prizes | $25 credits for passing submissions

Come one, come all!! The first ever edition of the Railway Hackathon is happening this Wednesday, August 6th @ 8am ETEvery valid submission gets $25 in Railway credits and we’re handing out up to $1,000 in cash prizes to the winners.Need inspiration? Here are some ideas for content and templates we would love to see: AI and MLOps, Headless CMSes, Modern Frameworks, Technical ContentThe theme is “build something real on Railway and explain how you did it” (sorry we couldn’t find a shorter way of saying this).You can win in either:Project sophistication: Your project solves a real problem, uses multiple services, and shows off what’s possible with a full end-to-end Railway setup. Bonus points if published on the Railway templates marketplaceContent depth: You write something genuinely useful about your project: detailed, clear, and helpful for other devsEach category can have up to 3 winners (1st place: $1000, 2nd place $500, 3rd place $200)To learn more about it, check out https://railway.com/hackathon

Database Backup Schedules

With Database Backup Schedules, you can configure backups daily, weekly, or monthly.Go to the Backups tab in your service settings and set up a schedule.

🛡️ SOC 2 Type II

Railway is now SOC 2 Type II compliant, which means our systems, processes, and controls meet a high, enterprise-grade security posture bar.You can find all our compliance certifications — SOC2 Type II, SOC3 and HIPAA attestation reports on Railway’s Trust Center. SOC2 Type II validates our security controls, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, and privacy practices.If you’re working with a larger workload, have specific requirements, you can book a call with the Railway team to explore how we can best support your project.

New Cron Experience

Hiya!We heard your feedback about where services with a cron schedule fall short and have made some improvements!At a high level, services with a cron schedule will no longer create a new deployment (unless in rare circumstances where the underlying instance does not yet exist!) and have a faster time-to-execution.To enable the new cron experience, scroll to the Feature Flags section of your service and enable the setting.We'd love for you to try the feature and give us your feedback. Let us know what you like, what you don't like, and what else you'd like to see from this feature.

Verifying domains with both CNAME and TXT - breaking change releasing at Friday

I would like to request not deploying a breaking changes on the Fridays without prior notice. Seriously, please. I have devs complaining at 22:00 (my tz) at Saturday that our preview apps are broken.I also have a question. The changelog has two points about TXT records. One is trusted domain verification. The other is:>We shipped support for verifying domains with both CNAME and TXT DNS records, giving you stronger proof of domain ownership and better protection against subdomain takeover.Are these two distinct features? Is domains not verifying without TXT record desired behaviour? I do not need nor want to set a 'trusted domain'.I'm asking, becouse It breaks my CI pipeline. We assign a domain and create DNS CNAME records in a GH workflow with subdomains related to PR number.Bonus question: Are you going to list record names consistently? CNAME is listed without domain while TXT record has the domain.

Delete Tables Directly in Railway

It would be great to delete database tables directly from the Railway dashboard. Right now, we have to use SQL or external tools, which is slower and less convenient. A simple button or menu with confirmation would make development much easier.

Deploy Microsoft Container Registry Images

This one is a pretty simple request brought by customers who are using Azure DevOps or pulling from DotNet Core.Customers who are using Azure DevOps or pulling from DotNet core can now deploy images from Microsoft Container Registry.

New & Improve Logs Explorer

We’re pleased to release a new beefed up version of our Log Explorer!The new Log Explorer is legitimately packed with quality-of-life improvements … like, really packed. You kinda have to just use it to see what we mean.You’ll get errors (much) quicker, you’ll be able to copy and download logs, you’ll be able to click-sort by just about any available parameter, and a whole lot more.Read more about it hereGot feedback? Share away!

Copy & Paste Logs

This appears to be a recent development, and is likely a bug. But I cannot copy my logs any more. Kind of a big deal....

Support Using Private Registries

Pro users are now able to use docker images with private credentials from GitHub, DockerHub, Microsoft or Quay.io!https://docs.railway.com/guides/services#deploying-a-private-docker-image

Static Outbound IPs (Non-Metal)

Static IPs enabled for all regions.

High Availability Database Templates

We released high availability templates for Postgres, MySQL, Mongo and Redis.Each of these HA templates provides you with an opportunity to deploy a more highly available and redundant data layer.

Sealed Variables

Hey y'all,Today we're opening beta access to Sealed Variables.Sealed Variables provide an extra layer of security. When a variable is sealed, its value is provided to builds and deployments but is never visible in the UI nor can it be retrieved via the API.Create a new sealed variableTo create sealed variable, check the "Seal variable" option when adding a new variable.Seal an existing variableTo seal an existing variable, click the 3-dot menu on the right-side of the variable and choose the "Seal" option.You can read more about sealed variables on their docs page.We'd love for you to try the feature and give us your feedback. Let us know what you like, what you don't like, and what else you'd like to see from this feature.

🔒 Security issue | Solution -> Enable 2FA in Environments

I need attaches a image to explain with more efficienceFlow:Settings -> Enviroments -> {{Delete any enviroment}} -> need 2FA flowsigned by: Albert

Trusted Domains

You can now automate the onboarding of new team members with trusted domains. Railway users that sign up with one of the trusted domains associated with your team will automatically be granted access to the team with the specified role.For example, new users with example.com email addresses will automatically be added to your teams that have the example.com trusted domain.

Restore Database Backups

We added a nifty feature to allow you restore database backups easily.Restore a backup in two clicks. Head over to the Backups tab in the service settings and look for the Restore button.

Real-time Multiplayer Awareness

The ability to see which of your teammates is currently working on the same project canvas as you. You'll see the avatars of your active collaborators on the canvas. We hope you like it.

Custom domain SSL Certificate seems stuck

Custom domain SSL certificatesstuck at VALIDATING_OWNERSHIPdespite correct DNS.Project ID: 58f3eefa-84ee-4652-8bf3-80d04a4daea2Domains:- api.cataflog.com (ID: 4908bee4-5985-4a9d-973e-71b7217c6295) - CNAMEverified, cert won't provision- www.cataflog.com (ID: 545c66d2-6763-4e25-b613-8cef06a7e17c) - CNAMEverified, cert won't provisionDNS records are correct (DNS only,grey cloud in Cloudflare). Domainshave been deleted and recreatedmultiple times which may havecaused Let's Encrypt rate limitingor stuck internal state. Pleaseclear the certificate validationstate.

Suggest to add buy domain feature inside projects

Currently it's added like buy domain first then use in our projects. But I want like make project then inside add custom domain from railway it will added to it. And for its charge add to project bills which is better option because sometimes users want to change their domains but if they buy with direct payment then didn't change it. And if it added through project or service then they can change anytime any domains and their overall bills will added monthly based or credits based any. This feature will be good. I suggest to add this.

App Sleeping (now known as Serverless)

App Sleeping allows you to increase the efficiency of resource utilization on Railway and may reduce the usage cost of a service, by ensuring it is running only when necessary.https://docs.railway.com/reference/app-sleeping

Stateful migrations across regions

Volumes can now easily be migrated across regions. They follow their associated service regions, so you’ll need to visit the service that your volume is mounted to and select the new region.

Heroku White Glove Migration - Save 40% on your Heroku bill

Would you like to chat with us about how to save 40% on your Heroku bill?We are running a new mini campaign (above) and landing page to help folks migrating from Heroku.If you represent a company with production deployments currently on Heroku, we invite you to book a session with us. You can skip the landing page and book directly here.

Teardown settings in config-as-code and UI

It’s now possible to define deployment teardown settings … in code!This means you can specify Overlap Seconds, which is the amount of time that a previous deploy will overlap with the newest one being deployed, as well as Draining Seconds, which is the amount of time between when the previous deploy is sent a SIGTERM to the time it’s sent a SIGKILL.For more Config as Code capabilities, check out the reference page.

💨 Faster Staged Changes and Merges

Staged change updates now hit the canvas in near-realtime so you can move that much faster when using Railway! (Previously these could take up to 7 seconds)If you have any feedback about these, please share them on this thread

🤝 Affiliate program - Earn to Bring Railway to Work or Your Network

Do you love Railway? Do you have a network of friends or a social following you’d like to introduce to Railway?Well we’ve introduced a new affiliate program just for you!Here’s how it works:You get a magic link to refer your friendsYou get 15% commission on every dollar your referrals spend on Railway within the first 12 monthsTo get started check out the Affiliate Program page and the docs.And don’t forget to read the blogpost introducing the program!

⌨️ Railway Functions in the CLI - Deploy and manage serverless functions directly from your terminal

The Railway CLI now supports a functions [1] command which allows you to create, list, pull, push, delete and link functions. Shout-out to Milo123459 for the contribution! Here’s the list of available subcommands:new - creates a new function. This command can watch for changes to the local file and automatically redeploy.list - lists all functions for a linked projectpull - pulls the latest version of a deployed functionpush - pushes changes to a function and deploys it. This command can watch for changes to the local file and automatically redeploy.delete - deletes a functionlink - you can link a function from a path to a service ID. When you switch environments, all Railway function commands will target the function in that environment.You'll find these commands extremely handy if you’ve been using Functions and want to edit the code in your IDE instead of the Railway Dashboard.The Railway CLI now supports Functions, enabling seamless local development, testing, and deployment of event-driven workloads without leaving your development environment.[1] In case you’re unfamiliar, Functions are services that run a single file of TypeScript code using the Bun runtime. There’s no build step, and you can deploy code changes in seconds. Check out the documentation to learn more.

🏆 Central Station Top Community Contributor Badges

Shout out to our most helpful community members for helping other users out!Top contributor badges are rewarded to the most active users on bounty threads — we really value all your contributions to breathing life into the Central Station community and want to recognize you all for your efforts!What these look like:

🔍 Central Station Search Improvements

We made improvements to Central Station search so you can now find all the answers you’re looking for with more accuracy and way faster!If it exists within our public questions, our search will help you find it

💰 Central Station Community Bounties - Earn Railway credits for helping fellow Railway users

Earn Railway credits for helping fellow developers in the Railway community.Central Station Bounties allow any Railway user to help another user on a question they’ve asked and earn Railway credits for it!Here’s how to get started:Visit station.railway.com/bountiesSelect your workspace to receive reward creditsProvide answers for bountied threadsIf your answer is accepted, you’ll get the bounty amount (usually $10) in credits

Pre-deploy Commands

The ability to add commands that execute between building and deploying your application. Commands that handle tasks like database migrations or data seeding before your application runs.

Environment Syncing

Environment Syncing is now available to all Railway users!When creating a new environment, you can now either start from a blank canvas or duplicate an existing environment. Once you make changes to your new environment, you can sync changes across to your production environment. You can even discard entire service changes and only pull in the changes you want.https://docs.railway.com/guides/environments#sync-environments

Drag-n-Drop Docker Compose Support

Import services straight from your Docker Compose file!Just drag and drop your Compose file onto your project canvas, and your services (and any mounted volumes) will be auto-imported as staged changes.Not every possible compose config is supported yet.

Multi-region deployments

You can now add multiple regions to scale out your app horizontally to different geographic regions.

Skip builds, deploy instantly

We're releasing Skipped Builds as a new experimental feature that skips the build step when the same source code was already built in a previous deployment.Here's what that looks like with PR environments:You open a Pull Request, and Railway builds it in a PR environment.You merge your Pull Request. The merged commit is identical to what was already built.Railway detects that the same code was already built, and deploys your app instantly.No time spent cloning your repo, installing dependencies, or running build steps.How to enable skipped buildsSkipped Builds is disabled by default right now, and can be enabled per service. You can enable it under Feature Flags in your Service Settings.Note on environment variablesOne thing to keep in mind: we only compare source code to decide whether to skip a build, not environment variables. If your build inlines environment variables (like NEXT_PUBLIC_* in Next.js or VITE_* in Vite), the cached image will still contain the values from the original build. Check out the Skipped Builds Docs for details on how to handle this.Any Feedback?We'd love to hear how this works for you. Let us know if you run into anything!