Recharge Week is over for us here at Railway and Q3 is officially upon us.

Let’s talk about the state of play for the quarter. 

 … which means if you’re reading this, you’re now on Railway Metal, which is cheaper, faster, more reliable, and more extensible than legacy Railway.

“It’s all coming together,” as they say, and the train is picking up speed.

We’re back to shipping new features, new ergonomic improvements, new reliability pieces, and new ways to get you and your team shipping 

Let’s jump into this week’s changeset. 🦘

We’re pleased to release a new Log Explorer to Priority Boarding. 

 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. 

Oh no! Your build failed. What can you do? How about an easy shortcut to get right to the error logs in context?

There’s an ultra-fast new way to see your failed build logs

What if you want to copy or download your logs? Shouldn’t that be made easy?

It’s also now easy to copy and download logs via the UI

What if you’d like to see other logs that are similar to the ones you’re looking at?

Just point your mouse to the param and click!

Log parameters are now click-to-filter tokens

And what if you want to experience the full log explorer mode?

The full screen log explorer has nifty new features like pause

To get started exploring the Log Explorer we invite you to explore your 

Rapid GitHub Repo Retrieval to Priority Boarding

We gotta tell ya — loading your GitHub repos is way. too. slow. — especially if you have a ton of repos like most of us do at Railway.

So we went to the GitHub documentation mines and started digging for new ways we could utilize the API to deliver faster browsing results. 

The early returns are phenomenal — what used to take seconds now takes milliseconds to load. 

If you’re annoyed by how long it takes to load your GitHub repos in the console, we invite you to head over to your 

Flip this toggle in your Feature Flags to access a new speedier way to load GitHub repos

Use CMD + K to find new timestamp and time zone settings

Why didn’t we implement this earlier?? 

It’s now possible to set your logging timestamps to 

It’s also now possible to set your default time zone. 

What are you waiting for, get out there and set those clocks!

Have a great weekend (whatever time zone you’re in)!

We fixed an issue where we sometimes were sending duplicate volume alert emails

We fixed an issue when initiating an API token-authenticated 

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Log Explorer to Priority Boarding, Rapid GitHub Repo Retrieval to Priority Boarding, Timestamps and Timezones

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