Two apps in my Galaxy account were migrated to Metal, and two of them are newly deployed. I see databases for the newly deployed apps in EU and AP. The original two apps in the US region have DBs, but they just don’t appear in the UI. If I go to Variables for the US-based apps, I can see the settings.json has MONGO_URL pointing to the DBs.
Can you wonderful Meteor/Galaxy team please take a look and fix those DBs so they appear in the Databases UI?
Btw, these DBs that don’t show up, they were the free ones from back before Metal that would never show up in the UI.
Really nice that new apps have DBs that appear in the UI now (even the free DBs)! The system appears to be more consolidated now.
Hey @trusktr, what you’re experiencing is actually expected behavior, not a bug. Here’s what’s going on:
The ability to see free MongoDB databases in the Databases tab is a new feature introduced with Galaxy Metal. However, it only applies to apps deployed on the new infrastructure with the “Add Free MongoDB” option selected, which is exactly why your newly deployed EU and AP apps show their databases correctly.
This feature is not retroactive. Free databases that already existed in your account before the migration won’t appear in the UI, even after your apps are migrated to Metal. That’s why the two original US apps still have their MONGO_URL visible only in the Variables tab.
Those databases are still working fine, they’re just not surfaced in the new interface. If you ever redeploy those apps from scratch on Galaxy Metal with a free MongoDB attached, the new databases will show up in the Databases tab as expected.
Let us know if you have any other questions!
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