Deploy and Host Chartbrew on Railway

Chartbrew builds live dashboards and charts from your databases and APIs. It connects to PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Firestore, REST APIs and services like Stripe or Google Analytics, lets you query them with a visual builder or SQL, and shares dashboards publicly, by link or embedded in other sites.

About Hosting Chartbrew

This template runs the official razvanilin/chartbrew:5.3.2 image as two services, the API and the web app, so each gets its own domain, plus Railway PostgreSQL and Redis. The owner account is created on first boot from the variables and further sign-ups are refused. The web service builds the interface at startup with the API's public URL, which takes about a minute. Chart data refreshes run as background jobs in Redis. Dashboards and connections live in Postgres, and credentials for data sources are encrypted with a generated key. Plan on about 1 GB of memory across services. Chartbrew is licensed under FSL-1.1-MIT.

Common Use Cases

Business dashboards from your production database
Client reports shared by link or embedded in a portal
Combining Stripe, analytics and database metrics on one page

Dependencies for Chartbrew Hosting

razvanilin/chartbrew:5.3.2 (official image, used for api and web)
Railway PostgreSQL
Railway Redis

Deployment Dependencies

Implementation Details

Service	Source	Networking	Storage
api	`razvanilin/chartbrew:5.3.2`	public domain on 4019	none
web	`razvanilin/chartbrew:5.3.2`	public domain on 4018	none
Postgres	Railway PostgreSQL	private	Railway volume
Redis	Railway Redis	private	Railway volume

Variable	Default	Purpose
`CHARTBREW_ADMIN_EMAIL`	`admin@example.com`	Owner account (first boot only)
`CHARTBREW_ADMIN_PASSWORD`	generated	Its password
`CB_RESTRICT_SIGNUP`	`1`	Only the first account may sign up
`CB_ENCRYPTION_KEY`	generated	Encrypts data-source credentials
`VITE_APP_API_HOST`	`https://${{api.RAILWAY_PUBLIC_DOMAIN}}`	API URL built into the web app

Notes:

Invite teammates from Team settings; they join without open sign-up.
Use private hostnames such as postgres.railway.internal for data sources in the same project.

This is a community-maintained deployment package and does not imply affiliation with or endorsement by Chartbrew or its maintainers.

Why Deploy Chartbrew on Railway?

Railway is a singular platform to deploy your infrastructure stack. Railway will host your infrastructure so you don't have to deal with configuration, while allowing you to vertically and horizontally scale it.

By deploying Chartbrew on Railway, you are one step closer to supporting a complete full-stack application with minimal burden. Host your servers, databases, AI agents, and more on Railway.