How do I deploy Railway Manage on Railway?

You can deploy Railway Manage on Railway by clicking the "Deploy Now" button on this page. Railway will automatically set up all the necessary services and configurations for you.

What are the system requirements?

Railway handles all the infrastructure requirements. You only need a web browser to deploy and manage your application.

Is this template free to use?

Yes, this template is free to use within your existing Railway account.

Can I customize this template?

Yes, you can fully customize this template. After deployment, you will have full control of what you've deployed in your Railway project.

How do I get support for this template?

You can get support through our community forum: railway-manage-7a4ce40c, or click "Get template help" for this template for more assistance.

Deploy and Host Railway Manage on Railway

Railway Manage is a self-hosted operations control plane for Railway projects. It provides automated SQLite backups, service restart monitoring, infrastructure visibility, and a clean dashboard — giving you disaster-recovery and day-to-day management capabilities that Railway's own UI doesn't cover.

About Hosting Railway Manage

Railway Manage runs as a single unified container: a Node.js backend, a prebuilt React dashboard, and a Caddy reverse proxy — all bundled into one Alpine-based image. When deployed on Railway, the app authenticates via your Railway API token, polls your project's services and metrics, schedules rolling backups to local storage, and exposes a protected dashboard behind JWT-authenticated sessions. No external databases are required; all state is stored in an embedded SQLite database that persists across deploys via a Railway volume mount.

Common Use Cases

Automated backup scheduling — run hourly/daily SQLite backups with configurable retention policies without relying on Railway's native restore capability
Service health monitoring — detect crashed or unresponsive Railway services and trigger automatic restarts before they affect users
Infrastructure audit trail — keep a searchable log of all management actions (restarts, backup events, config changes) for compliance and post-incident review

Dependencies for Railway Manage Hosting

Railway project with API access — a Railway API token scoped to the project you want to manage
Persistent volume — a Railway volume mounted at /app/data to persist the SQLite database and backup files across redeploys

Deployment Dependencies

Railway API Tokens — generate a token from Account Settings → Tokens
Railway Volumes — attach a volume to the service for durable data storage
Caddy Web Server — bundled in the production image, no separate setup needed

Implementation Details

Set the following environment variables on your Railway service:

# Railway API token with read/write access to your project (from railway.app → Account Settings → Tokens)
RAILWAY_TOKEN=your_railway_api_token

Mount a Railway volume at /app/data to persist the database and backups. The app listens on $PORT (Railway injects this automatically) and serves both the API (/api/*) and the dashboard (/*) through the bundled Caddy proxy.

Why Deploy Railway Manage 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 Railway Manage 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.