Railway Log Monitoring with LogMonitor

>_ why railway apps need log monitoring

Railway's built-in log viewer is useful during development but limited for production debugging. Logs are retained for a short window and there is no way to filter by user, request, or custom metadata. LogMonitor adds persistent, searchable, real-time log streaming to any Railway-deployed application.

>_ how logmonitor works with railway

Add the logmonitor-js SDK or HTTP API integration to your Railway-deployed application. Set your LogMonitor API key as a Railway environment variable. Once deployed, the SDK auto-patches console.log, console.info, console.warn, console.error, and console.debug to stream logs to your LogMonitor Live Console in real time alongside Railway's built-in logging. Logs are only sent in production (when process.env.NODE_ENV === 'production').

>_ quick start

import { logmonitor } from 'logmonitor-js';

import express from 'express';

logmonitor.init({ apiKey: process.env.LOGMONITOR_API_KEY });

const app = express();

app.post('/api/orders', async (req, res) => {

  console.log('Order received', { orderId: req.body.id, total: req.body.total });

  try {

    const order = await createOrder(req.body);

    console.log('Order created', { orderId: order.id });

    res.json(order);

  } catch (err) {

    console.error('Order creation failed', { error: err.message });

    res.status(500).json({ error: 'Failed to create order' });

  }

});

app.listen(process.env.PORT || 3000);

>_ what you can monitor

• $Application errors and exceptions in production
• $Deployment startup and health check logs
• $Database connection and query errors
• $Background job and cron task failures
• $External API integration issues
• $Environment variable and configuration errors