Railway is a cloud application deployment platform (PaaS) that builds, deploys, and scales services, databases, and cron jobs from a Git repository or Docker image. Its programmatic surface is a GraphQL-first Public API served at https://backboard.railway.com/graphql/v2 - the same API that powers the Railway dashboard. There is no REST API; all queries and mutations are issued as GraphQL POST requests, and real-time build, deployment, and environment log streams are delivered as GraphQL subscriptions over a WebSocket endpoint at wss://backboard.railway.com/graphql/v2.
Railway publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network: Logs API. Tagged areas include Deployment, Platform-as-a-Service, Cloud, Infrastructure, and GraphQL.
The Railway catalog on APIs.io includes 1 event-driven AsyncAPI specification and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.
Railway’s developer surface includes documentation, engineering blog, and 8 more developer resources.
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GraphQL operations for creating, reading, updating, and deleting Railway projects - the top-level container for services and environments. Queries include project and projects; ...
GraphQL operations for managing services and their per-environment service instances. Queries include service and serviceInstance; mutations include serviceCreate, serviceUpdate...
GraphQL operations for triggering and managing deployments. Queries include deployment and deployments; mutations include serviceInstanceDeployV2, serviceInstanceRedeploy, deplo...
GraphQL operations for isolated project environments (for example production and staging). Queries include environment and environments; mutations include environmentCreate, env...
GraphQL operations for service and environment configuration variables. Queries include variables; mutations include variableUpsert, variableDelete, and variableCollectionUpsert...
GraphQL operations for persistent volumes attached to services. Queries include volume; mutations include volumeCreate, volumeUpdate, volumeDelete, and volumeInstanceUpdate for ...
GraphQL operations for legacy plugins (managed database add-ons such as Postgres, MySQL, Redis, and MongoDB). Queries include plugin; mutations include pluginCreate, pluginUpdat...
GraphQL operations for attaching custom and Railway-provided domains to a service. Queries include customDomain and domains; mutations include customDomainCreate, customDomainDe...
GraphQL operations for reading resource consumption and cost. Queries include usage, estimatedUsage, and metrics for per-service vCPU, memory, network egress, and disk utilization.
GraphQL operations for the authenticated account, its workspaces, teams, and members. Queries include me, workspace, and workspaces; mutations include workspaceUpdate and teamMe...
GraphQL operations for project webhooks that notify external URLs of deployment status changes. Queries include projectWebhooks; mutations include webhookCreate, webhookUpdate, ...
GraphQL log surface for builds, deployments, environments, and HTTP traffic. Available both as point-in-time queries (buildLogs, deploymentLogs, environmentLogs, httpLogs) and a...
Railway is a cloud application deployment platform (PaaS). Its entire programmatic surface is a **GraphQL API** - there is no REST API. The Public API is the same API that power...
AsyncAPI 2.6 description of Railway's **real-time log streaming** surface. Unlike many providers in this catalog, Railway **does** publish a documented public WebSocket transpor...
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