Railway incident

API degradation causing slow or stuck deployments

Resolved after 3 hours 45 minutes, affecting Railway (API — backboard.railway.com) and US East (Virginia, USA) (Deployments (US East)) and 1 more, on September 29, 2026.

resolved Sep 29, 2026, 07:15 PM UTC

The issue affecting our API and causing slow or stuck deployments has been resolved. A period of elevated load on our API caused a backlog to build in our deployment queue faster than it could drain. We applied several fixes to improve how our deployment system handles backpressure and temporarily paused new deployments for Hobby-tier projects while the queue recovered. All deployments have since resumed and are processing normally. We apologize for any inconvenience. If you continue to experience issues, please contact support at https://station.railway.com.

Started
Sep 29, 2026, 03:29 PM UTC
Resolved
Sep 29, 2026, 07:15 PM UTC
Duration
3h 45m
Detected by Pingoru
Sep 29, 2026, 03:29 PM UTC

Affected components

Railway (API — backboard.railway.com)US East (Virginia, USA) (Deployments (US East))US West (California, USA) (Deployments (US West))EU West (Amsterdam, Netherlands) (Deployments (EU West))Southeast Asia (Singapore) (Deployments (Southeast Asia))

Update timeline

  1. investigating Sep 29, 2026, 03:29 PM UTC

    We are aware of an issue affecting our API that is causing slow or stuck deployments for some users. We are actively investigating and working to restore normal operations. We will provide updates as we learn more.

  2. monitoring Sep 29, 2026, 06:37 PM UTC

    We are seeing recovery and are monitoring this incident. Hobby deployments have been re-enabled.

  3. resolved Sep 29, 2026, 07:15 PM UTC

    The issue affecting our API and causing slow or stuck deployments has been resolved. A period of elevated load on our API caused a backlog to build in our deployment queue faster than it could drain. We applied several fixes to improve how our deployment system handles backpressure and temporarily paused new deployments for Hobby-tier projects while the queue recovered. All deployments have since resumed and are processing normally. We apologize for any inconvenience. If you continue to experience issues, please contact support at https://station.railway.com.

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