Railway incident

Elevated latency in US East edge network

Resolved after 24 minutes, affecting US East (Virginia, USA) (Networking — Public (US East)), on May 4, 2026.

resolved May 04, 2026, 05:46 PM UTC

The elevated latency affecting our US East edge network has been resolved. We removed the affected upstream provider, and performance has returned to normal. We apologize for any inconvenience. If you continue to experience issues, please contact us at https://station.railway.com.

Started
May 04, 2026, 05:21 PM UTC
Resolved
May 04, 2026, 05:46 PM UTC
Duration
24m
Detected by Pingoru
May 04, 2026, 05:21 PM UTC

Affected components

US East (Virginia, USA) (Networking — Public (US East))

Update timeline

  1. investigating May 04, 2026, 05:21 PM UTC

    We are aware of elevated latency affecting our edge network in US East. Requests to services running in this region may take longer than normal to complete. We are actively investigating and we will provide updates as we learn more.

  2. identified May 04, 2026, 05:34 PM UTC

    We have identified the issue affecting US East edge latency and are rolling out a fix. Some users may already see improvement, though latency remains elevated for others. We will continue to provide updates as the fix takes effect.

  3. monitoring May 04, 2026, 05:39 PM UTC

    We suspect the elevated latency is related to an issue with our upstream CDN layer. As a mitigation, we have removed the affected provider from our edge network and are now seeing performance return to normal. We will continue to monitor before resolving.

  4. resolved May 04, 2026, 05:46 PM UTC

    The elevated latency affecting our US East edge network has been resolved. We removed the affected upstream provider, and performance has returned to normal. We apologize for any inconvenience. If you continue to experience issues, please contact us at https://station.railway.com.

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