Railway•6mo ago

Occasional spikes in egress with no user activity

I have a Strapi project, and have been getting sudden spikes in egress of 800+ MB, almost everyday. My product does not get any visitors yet, which is evident in my analytics. Attaching images of the spike, logs and screenshot of analytics. How can I find out what's going on?

Solution:

id recommend putting your app behind cloudflare and removing the railway provided domain, that way you can adjust policies in cloudflare to your needs

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Percy•6mo ago

Project ID: fa6dbc09-b00a-4968-a736-60d939742cea

sahilthewayOP•6mo ago

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sahilthewayOP•6mo ago

I am connecting with the database private url

module.exports = ({ env }) => ({
  connection: {
    client: "postgres",
    connection: {
      connectionString: env("DATABASE_PRIVATE_URL"),
      host: env("DATABASE_HOST"),
      port: env("DATABASE_PORT"),
      database: env("DATABASE_NAME"),
      user: env("DATABASE_USERNAME"),
      password: env("DATABASE_PASSWORD"),
      ssl: {
        rejectUnauthorized: env.bool("DATABASE_SSL_SELF", false),
      },
    },
    debug: false,
  },
})

module.exports = ({ env }) => ({
  connection: {
    client: "postgres",
    connection: {
      connectionString: env("DATABASE_PRIVATE_URL"),
      host: env("DATABASE_HOST"),
      port: env("DATABASE_PORT"),
      database: env("DATABASE_NAME"),
      user: env("DATABASE_USERNAME"),
      password: env("DATABASE_PASSWORD"),
      ssl: {
        rejectUnauthorized: env.bool("DATABASE_SSL_SELF", false),
      },
    },
    debug: false,
  },
})

Ref: https://docs.strapi.io/dev-docs/configurations/database#connection-parameters

Database | Strapi Documentation

Strapi offers a single entry point file to configure its databases.

Brody•6mo ago

could be bots or scanners, unfortunately some http based access logs are not going to provide you with enough insight.

Solution

Brody•6mo ago

id recommend putting your app behind cloudflare and removing the railway provided domain, that way you can adjust policies in cloudflare to your needs

sahilthewayOP•6mo ago

Thanks for the answer Brody! I generally use a custom domain in any public call. Your suggestion will be to put this custom domain behind cloudflare and use the URL provided by them in my API calls? Apologies if this is too basic, but I am doing it for the first time. 🙂

Brody•6mo ago

your custom domain will be with cloudflare and thus protected by them, you need to use cloudflare's nameservers for that. https://developers.cloudflare.com/dns/zone-setups/full-setup/setup/

sahilthewayOP•6mo ago

Thanks. WIll do this tonight and closely monitor it for the next 2 weeks. 🙂

Brody•6mo ago

sounds good!

sahilthewayOP•5mo ago

Hi. I am still getting high egress cost. I have internal database url, but it looks like "Egress" is coming from the strapi project. I'd love to get a direction to look in. 🙏

Brody•5mo ago

does that project only have those two services?

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Occasional spikes in egress with no user activity