Deploy and Host StatusPanda Uptime on Railway

StatusPanda Uptime is a self hosted monitor with a public status page and a private admin den. Deploy it on Railway and leave the defaults. It watches HTTP URLs, records incidents, and can shout into Discord or Slack when a site falls over. An example check is already running on first boot so the page is never empty.

About Hosting StatusPanda Uptime

StatusPanda Uptime runs as one Node service. Checks, the public page, and SQLite all live together. Railway gives you the public domain, a generated admin password, and a volume at /data so history survives redeploys. There is no separate database to provision and no secret for you to invent. Open the URL, copy ADMIN_PASSWORD from the service variables, and add your real sites. Optional webhooks wait in Settings until you want alerts.

Common Use Cases

Publish a calm status page for customers while you sleep
Watch a marketing site, API, and docs URL from one den
Ping Discord or Slack the moment a check fails twice

Dependencies for StatusPanda Uptime Hosting

Node 22 runtime
SQLite file on a Railway volume at /data
Outbound HTTPS so checks can reach the public internet

Implementation Details

Required variables (leave the defaults):

APP_NAME: Public name on the status page. Leave StatusPanda unless you want your own brand.
ADMIN_USER: Admin login username. Leave admin unless you want a different name.
ADMIN_PASSWORD: Leave this. Railway fills a random password. After deploy, copy it from the service Variables tab to log in.

After deploy:

Public page: https:///
Admin: https:///login
Username: admin (or your ADMIN_USER)
Password: service variable ADMIN_PASSWORD
Health: https:///health
JSON: https:///api/status
Badge: https:///badge.svg

An example monitor for https://railway.com is created on first boot. Remove it in Admin whenever you like.

Why Deploy StatusPanda Uptime 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 StatusPanda Uptime 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.