Force app sleeping / pause or shutdown instances | Railway | Page 1

opaque wharf Feb 23, 2024, 7:59 AM

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Besides the automatic app sleeping, is there a way to force shutdown or pause instances?

Use-case: we use staging environments for projects, but sometimes the development on a specific project is idle for a while. For that period of time I want to shutdown or pause an environment or all instances in it without losing all configuration.

random lilyBOT Feb 23, 2024, 7:59 AM

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opaque wharf Feb 23, 2024, 7:59 AM

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N/A

icy idol Feb 23, 2024, 8:26 AM

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there is currently no way to manually enter an app into sleep, not via the dashboard nor the public api.

open a feedback post here! https://help.railway.app/feedback

opaque wharf Feb 23, 2024, 9:10 AM

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As reference: https://help.railway.app/questions/manual-put-instance-to-sleep-9fcc9781

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Manual put instance to sleep

Besides the automatic app sleeping, we sometimes want to manually force instances or whole enviroments to sleep / pause / stop without removing it. So you will not lose all config.

Use-case: using staging environments for projects. Depending on the project, ongoing development on a specific project can be idle for a while. For that period of ti...

icy idol Feb 23, 2024, 9:13 AM

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I will say, you can still remove the active deployment, you won't lose any config

#Force app sleeping / pause or shutdown instances