Getting charged $10/mo for practically unused mongoDB instance? | Railway | Page 1

wary harbor Dec 25, 2024, 1:57 PM

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Hi, I have noticed that I am getting charged quite a bit for an idle project that barely has <100 visits monthly. I started looking into it closer, and noticed that I am getting charged for $10 monthly for a MongoDB instance.

Image Server DB
https://i.gyazo.com/b62def1ec9083406c6b1204a76a05ce5.png

This is the metrics for the last 30 days
https://i.gyazo.com/7ce4090a6de8bcf3420bdc1843b4a2bb.png

Is there something wrong with my instance or the pricing? Or maybe I am understanding it wrong? How an idle DB can use so much resources (Though looking at metrics it doesn't look much at all?)?

Thanks.

azure flickerBOT Dec 25, 2024, 1:57 PM

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Project ID: 61b91f10-9656-4ab4-8799-5f722343a04b

wary harbor Dec 25, 2024, 1:57 PM

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61b91f10-9656-4ab4-8799-5f722343a04b

little tapir Dec 25, 2024, 2:05 PM

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hello,

railway doesn't charge based on visitors or page loads, or anything along those lines.

railway charges for resource usage, cpu, memory, network, disk.

your image server db service is simply using $10 worth of resources.

nothing inherently wrong with your instance, and nothing wrong with over counting your resources on our side, that number is correct.

as for why that much resources are being used, well we have no way of telling you, similarly to how your power company can tell you how much power you used, but they don't know what you did with that power.

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I can recommend you look into app sleeping -

https://docs.railway.com/reference/app-sleeping

when an app is sleeping it cannot use cpu, memory, or network.

wary harbor Dec 25, 2024, 2:08 PM

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Yeah, well it doesn't want to sleep. Something shady is going on with that instance. I believe it uses default configuration and not a single clue on why it would use much if it does nothing...

little tapir Dec 25, 2024, 2:08 PM

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you can check out the docs page I linked for some common reasons why services may not be able to sleep

wary harbor Dec 25, 2024, 2:09 PM

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I see, thanks. Will be looking into moving it somewhere else then. No reason to pay $10 for something like this.

little tapir Dec 25, 2024, 2:09 PM

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that's fair, rest assured the number is counted correctly

wary harbor Dec 25, 2024, 2:10 PM

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Appreciate the response.

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Thank you

little tapir Dec 25, 2024, 2:10 PM

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no problem!

little tapir Dec 25, 2024, 2:38 PM

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!s

#Getting charged $10/mo for practically unused mongoDB instance?