— Keepalive
Keep your Railway app awake
without upgrading your plan
Railway hobby plan apps can sleep during periods of inactivity. When a user hits your app during that window, they wait — or get an error. You only find out when someone complains.
A scheduled ping every 10 minutes keeps your app active. QuzenixCron handles the scheduling — free plan, no credit card, no expiry.
Set up in 2 minutes
01
Sign up for free
Create a free QuzenixCron account — no credit card. Free plan includes 2 cron jobs running every 30 minutes, permanently.
02
Get your Railway app URL
Find your app's public URL in the Railway dashboard (e.g. https://your-app.up.railway.app). Add a /health endpoint if you don't have one.
03
Schedule a ping every 10 minutes
Create a job pointing to your app URL, method GET, schedule every 10 minutes. Railway sees consistent traffic and keeps your app warm.
Example configuration
NameRailway Keepalive
URLhttps://your-app.up.railway.app/health
MethodGET
Schedule*/10 * * * * (every 10 minutes)
Timeout30s
What you get with QuzenixCron
Email alerts on failure
If the ping to your Railway app returns an error or times out, you get an email alert immediately — on every plan, including free.
Response assertion
Verify the response body contains what you expect (e.g. "ok"). Catch cases where your app returns 200 but is actually broken.
Execution history
Log of every request — timestamp, status code, response time. See exactly when your app was slow or unreachable.
Pause anytime
Going offline for maintenance? Pause the keepalive job with one click and resume when you're back.
Keep Railway awake — for free
Free plan · 2 cron jobs · no credit card · no expiry
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